Event detail
City as Nexus: Global Urban Humanities Fall 2017 Colloquium
Colloquium | August 30 – November 15, 2017 every Wednesday with exceptions | 12-1:30 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 494, South Tower
Various Guest Lecturers, Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Fall 2017 (1 Unit)
Rhetoric 198-3 (Class Nbr: 21377) and CYPLAN 198-2 (Class Nbr: 12006)
Rhetoric 244A (Class Nbr: 46989) and CYPLAN 298-2 (Class Nbr: 47047)
Instructor: Kevin Block
Instructor of record: Susan Moffat
Wednesdays, 12-1:30PM
Location: Cal Design Lab, Room 494 SE Wurster Hall
The city is a social nexus. It binds people, things, forces, ideas together as a crossroads, grid, and network. But exactly how? And to what end? In this wide-ranging colloquium, speakers from a variety of disciplines will present research on the relational dynamic of cities. Speakers will include faculty and graduate students from departments including Architecture, Art History, Rhetoric, Classics, Italian Studies, English, History, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and more.
The colloquium is part of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, a joint project of the Arts & Humanities Division and the College of Environmental Design. Our aim with this speaker series is to provide a gathering place where people from different disciplines can learn about each other’s work on global cities.
Requirements for S/U credit: Attend at least 10 of 13 lectures including the November 29 wrap-up session and write two brief posts for the Global Urban Humanities blog. There are no required readings. However, relevant readings, videos, etc. will be posted to a course website in advance of each lecture. All lectures are open to the campus community, and visitors are encouraged to attend.
August 23
Course Introduction
Kevin Block
Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
August 30
“Humanizing Urbanism”
Margaret Crawford
Architecture, UC Berkeley
September 6, 5-6:30PM, Wurster Gallery
“Designing San Francisco”
Alison Isenberg
History, Princeton University
September 13
“The Scale of Global Modernisms”
Harsha Ram
Comparative Literature & Slavic, UC Berkeley
September 20
“Urbanism at the Border”
Ronald Rael & Stephanie Syjuco
Architecture & Art Practice, UC Berkeley
September 27
“The Making of a Roman Town”
Lisa Pieraccini
Italian & Classics, UC Berkeley
October 4
“Art and the City”
Jason Luger
City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
October 11
“Indigenous Urbanisation and the Politics of Care”
Daniel Fisher
Anthropology, UC Berkeley
October 18
Dissertation Talks!
William Gow & Aku Ammah-Tagoe
Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley & English, Stanford
October 25
“Ancient Egyptian Urbanism”
Carol Redmount
Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
November 1
“Sounds of the City”
Nicholas Mathew
Music, UC Berkeley
November 8
“Learning from Shenzhen”
Winnie Wong
Rhetoric & History of Art, UC Berkeley
November 15
“Using Bodies to Measure Urban Public Space”
Erika Chong Shuch & Ghigo DiTommaso
Choreographer & LAEP, UC Berkeley
Faculty, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Undergraduate
All Audiences
globalurbanhumanities@berkeley.edu, 5106644077
(No event on these dates: September 6, 2017)
