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Upcoming Cities Project Events

Inert Cities

May 8, 2012

This symposium considers inertia, and other forms of stillness or blockage, as a condition in urban life, articulated and operationalized through visual culture and spatial practice. The focus is on what happens when the forms of mobility associated with the globalization of cities - the fast flow of capital, people, labor - decelerate, break down, or freeze.

Questioning Urban Modernity

May 18, 2012

Now that post-, late, neocapital-, cyber- and global modernity have all entered and altered the urban experience, it is time for a reconsideration of the concept of modernity in relation to urban space, culture, and theory.

Recent Cities Project Events

CRESC Conference Panel: Globalization and Urban Aesthetics

September 6-9, 2011

This panel brings together papers from the fields of Asian studies, film studies, and art history to examine the relationship between globalization, cities, and aesthetics.

NECS Conference Panel: Cities and Scapes

June 23-26, 2011

This panel brings together researchers from the Cities Project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis to examine the critical and perspectival trope of the 'scape' (landscape, mindscape, soundscape, etc) in relation to a range of urban settings.

Paris-Amsterdam Underground

November 2010 (Amsterdam) and January 2011 (Paris)

This project involves a pair of linked conferences - one in Paris and the other in Amsterdam. The two conferences will work together in creating a mirroring effect over the notion of the 'underground' as a necessarily dissonant but also culturally-binding force in the making of the 21st-century European city.

Globalization and Violence

October 1-2, 2009

This interdisciplinary workshop - aimed at the UvA's humanities research and graduate-student communities - brought together a select group of leading scholars in the field of urban/cultural studies to address the relationship between globalization and violence in contemporary visual culture.