BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Radcliffe Conference: Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1051811_0 SUMMARY:Radcliffe Conference: Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age DESCRIPTION:

Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age

Friday, April 28 | 9 AM–5 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA

Urbanism is a global phenomenon that presents a range of pressing issues to consider—economic, political, and material, but most of all human. This one-day conference is designed to stimulate a broad-based discussion about “the urban” in the 21st century, a much more complicated concept than 19th- and 20th-century cities. This change has been extensively studied by social scientists, but it is often overlooked how these new urban centers are being experienced by their inhabitants. This conference will take a multidisciplinary, international approach to exploring the challenges and tensions that people in urban communities face.

To register, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2017-intersections-understanding-urbanism-conference.

Speakers:

KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House; Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Eve Blau, coprincipal investigator, Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative; adjunct professor of the history and theory of urban form and design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Julie A. Buckler, director of the humanities program, Radcliffe Institute; coprincipal investigator, Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative; the Samuel Hazard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and of Comparative Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Richard Burdett, professor of urban studies and director, LSE Cities, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Dilip da Cunha, adjunct professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Heidi Ewing, filmmaker; codirector of Emmy Award-winning film, DETROPIA
Erik Ghenoiu, research manager, Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative
Anna Schuleit Haber RI ’07, visual artist
Edgar Pieterse, South African research chair in urban policy and director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Matthias Schuler, founder, Transsolar Klima Engineering
Mark Shepard, associate professor, Departments of Architecture and Media Study, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo
Sooni Taraporevala, photographer; award-winning screenwriter (Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay!, The Namesake) and director (Little Zizou)
Anja Thierfelder, architect
Ana Elvira Vélez Villa, architect (Colombia)

The event is free and open to the public. We encourage you to share this invitation with people you know who may be interested in attending this event.

LOCATION:Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20170428T130000Z DTEND:20170428T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR