Online Seminar Series
Organized by
Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK) on behalf of the International Urban Symposium-IUS
In partnership with
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Sociology (Greece), and City, University of London (UK)
Endorsed by
Centre for Ethnographic Research, University of Kent (UK)
SEMINAR SCHEDULE – October-December 2023
The Seminars will run on the 2nd Thursday of every month
at 16.00 – 17.30 hrs BTS (British Standard Time)
• Thursday 12 October – James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong (City, University of London), A Stroll in the Park? Tactics and Goals in the Ageing Process.
• Thursday 9 November – Subhadra Mitra Channa (University of Delhi, India), People’s Conceptualization of Government, Governance and Legitimacy: Some Reflections based on Urban Delhi.
• Thursday 14 December – Robert Williams (The University of Akron, USA), Becoming Urban? Seeing Amish Legitimacy versus Technocapitalism.
SEMINAR SCHEDULE – January-March 2024
The Seminars will run on a Thursday
at 16.00 – 17.30 hrs BTS (British Standard Time)
• Thursday 11 January – Erin Lynch (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada), Sensing the Augmented City: Locative Tours, Haunted Streetscapes and Imagined Futures.
• Thursday 25 January – Liora Sarfati (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Globalization, Urbanization, and the Cosmopolitanization of Korea’s Vernacular Religions.
• Thursday 8 February – Adriana Hurtado-Tarazona and Malena Rinaudo-Velandia (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia), Ethnographies of Urban Change.
• Thursday 7 March – Manos Spyridakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Precarious Employment and Social Exclusion in Times of Crisis: The Case of Athens.
SEMINAR SCHEDULE – April-June 2024
The Seminars will run on a Thursday
at 16.00 – 17.30 hrs BTS (British Standard Time)
• Thursday 18 April – Iraklis Vogiatzis and Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), The Deterritorialization of Labour in the Digital Era.
• Thursday 9 May – Nathalie Boucher (Organisme Respire, Montreal, Canada), Alone, Together and in Public. Australian Beaches and Pools as Public Spaces.
• Thursday 23 May – Jerome Krase (Brooklyn College of The City University of New York), The Dramaturgical Community, or How to be Recognized as a Communitys.
• Thursday 13 June – Ipsita Pradhan (SRM University, Andha Pradesh, India),The Spectacular Shopping Mall and the Mundane Workplace: Towards an Understanding of Layered Spaces.
• Thursday 27 June – Lakshmi Srinivas, (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA), Cinema Hall to Multiplex: an ethnographic reading of loss and change.
Further details are available at: https://www.internationalurbansymposium.com/events/monthly-seminar-series-2023-2024/