Monday, February 18, 2019 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Merten Hall, #1202
Mason faculty and advanced graduate students will discuss their current urban research projects and shared research interests. We see this as a revisiting of Mason's Cities and Globalization Working Group and the "Cities at the Center of the World" conference that took place in April 2014.
The presenters will be: Jennifer Ashley, Johanna Bockman, Jo-Marie Burt, Basak Durgun, Tim Gibson, Yasemin Ipek, Amaka Okechukwu, Agnieszka Paczynska, and Rashmi Sadana.
Potential themes for discussion: encounters (collaborations, tensions, friendship, adversity), social haunting, imaginaries, urban memory spaces, Amazon and Virginia, infrastructure (public transit, private transit, stoplights, potholes, etc), the city block as global, post-informal cities, community studies and global studies, and other fascinating themes.
We will begin at 1pm with coffee and cookies, and then the panel will start by 1:30pm.
If you would like to join the Cities and Globalization Working Group Listserv or have any questions, please contact Johanna Bockman jbockman@gmu.edu
The Global Affairs Seminar has been established to encourage and explore the most cutting edge research in globalization studies. The Seminar is sponsored by the Global Affairs Program and Global Programs. Our seminar schedule is:
Wednesday, October 17, 2018: Ilana Feldman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University, "Humanitarian Predicaments: Protracted Displacement and Palestinian Refugee Politics."
Thursday, January 31, 2019: Revisiting South-South/BRICs/Emerging Powers Investment and Development Aid panel discussion.
Monday, February 18, 2019: Cities and Globalization Revisited.
February 2019: Russian politics today (details TBA).
March 21, 2019: Rashmi Sadana, Associate Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University, 1-2:30pm.
