Event detail
Ten Years of Global Metropolitan Studies at Berkeley
Seminar | April 3 – 4, 2017 every day | Barrows Hall
College of Environmental Design
Ten Years of Global Metropolitan Studies at Berkeley: A Symposium
April 3-4, 2017
Social Science Matrix
Barrows Hall, 8th Floor
UC Berkeley
Global Metropolitan Studies sprang to life during a decade of major transformations not only in cities around the world but also in how we study cities. The implications of global urbanization are widespread: from environmental challenges to entrenched patterns of segregation to new configurations of politics and social movements. UC Berkeley created GMS in 2004 as a New Initiative Center to promote multidisciplinary doctoral-level education and research on global urbanization. In 2009, the program became a Designated Emphasis, or Ph.D. minor. Since its inception, 61 doctoral students have enrolled in the Designated Emphasis and 34 have graduated. We celebrate these accomplishments in this two-day symposium where we bring together GMS alumni, current and former directors, affiliated faculty, and current students to discuss and debate what has emerged in the field and to anticipate new directions in the field.
This symposium is free and open to the public. Please RSVP here to let us know you will attend!
Photo by Jia-Ching Chen
Schedule April 3
9:30 – 10:00
Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30
Opening Remarks
Teresa Caldeira and Joan Walker, GMS Co-directors
10:30 – 12:30
Panel 1: Knowledge Production and the Re-imagining of Global Metropolitan Studies
Chair: Teresa Caldeira University of California, Berkeley; GMS-Co-director
Gautam Bhan Indian Institute for Human Settlements
What Must Be Our Urban Question? Reflections on Contemporary Urban Knowledge from Delhi
Ricardo Cardoso New York University
Atlantic Metropolitan Studies: Contemporary Lineaments of an Elapsed Field
Joseph Godlewski Syracuse University
Contending with Post-Truth Politics, Anti-Planning, and Occult Urbanism
Ryan Centner London School of Economics
The Spatial Politics of “The Middle”
12:30 – 1:15
Lunch
1:15 – 3:00
Panel 2: Infrastructure and Critique – Part 1
Chair: Peter Evans UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus; Former GMS Director
Hun Kim ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Infrastructures of Infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City
Mona Damluji University of California, Santa Barbara
Cultural Infrastructures of Everyday Life
Julie Gamble Univerisdad San Francisco de Quito
Playing on the Urban Street: Gender, Risk, and Transit Infrastructure in Quito, Ecuador
3:00 – 3:15
Break
3:15 – 5:00
Panel 3: Infrastructure and Critique – Part 2
Chair: Elizabeth Deakin UC Berkeley Professor Emerita; Former GMS Director
Sergio Montero Universidad de Los Andes
Leveraging Bogotá: Sustainable Urban Development, Global Philanthropy and the Increased Speed of Urban Policy
Oscar Sosa Lopez University of California, Berkeley
Climate Adaptation, Green Infrastructure and Urban Citizenship: Insights from Mexico City
John Stehlin University of California, Berkeley
Vernacular Mobilities and the Biopolitics of Urban Data: The Formalization of Bicycle Infrastructure in North America
5:15
Ananya Roy University of California, Los Angeles; Former GMS Director
Schedule April 3
9:30 – 10:00
Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00
Panel 4: City Making, Urban Citizenship, and New Configurations of the Political
Chair: James Holston University of California, Berkeley; Former GMS Director
Jennifer Tucker University of New Mexico
Deal-making, Livelihood and Urban Rights
António Tomás African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
Local Political Dynamics as Counter-movements: Municipal Concerns and the Reconfiguration of the Political in Angola
Saima Akhtar Yale University
Waging Love: Water Rights and Urban Activism in Detroit
Sara Hinkley University of California, Berkeley
Workers of the City, Unite!
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 1:15
Panel 5: Land Commodification, Urbanization, and New Forms of Uncertainty and Spectacle
Chair: Richard Walker UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus; Former GMS Director
Jia-Ching Chen University of California, Santa Barbara
Rural Revanchism?: State-led Spatial Restructuring, Land Commodification and Class Making in China
Alex Schafran University of Leeds
The Urban as an Economic Sector
Matt Wade University of California, Berkeley
Spectral Time, Archipelagic Utopias, and Planning in the Age of Climate Apocalypse
Kah-Wee Lee National University of Singapore
Casino Urbanisms: Networks of Profit and the Architectural Fix
1:15 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:30
Final Round Table Discussion: Future Trends in Global Metropolitan Studies
GMS Co-directors Past and Present; and All Participants
GMS Directors
Teresa Caldeira
Elizabeth Deakin
Peter Evans
James Holston
Ananya Roy
Joan Walker
Richard Walker
Participants:
Saima Akhtar, Yale University
Gautam Bhan, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Ricardo Cardoso - New York University
Ryan Center - London School of Economics
Jia-Chiang Chen - University of California, Santa Barbara
Mona Damluji - University of California, Santa Barbara
Julie Gamble - Univerisda San Francisco de Quito
Joseph Godlewski - Syracuse University
Sara Hinkley - UC Berkeley
Hun Kim - ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute
Kah-Wee Lee - National University of Singapore
Sergio Montero - Universidad de Los Andes
Alex Schafran - University of Leeds
Oscar Sosa Lopez - UC Berkeley
John Stehlin - UC Berkeley
Antonio Tomas - University of Cape Town
Jennifer Tucker - University of New Mexico
Matt Wade - UC Berkeley
