Urban Humanities Seminar Series 2018
2018-08-02 01:00 - 2018-11-15 16:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Environmental and Geographical Science Building, South Lane, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
Academic Seminars (15:00 – 16:30)
7 August
High Stakes, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory – Prof Sophie Oldfield
16 August
Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks – Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty
30 August
in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town’s cities – Dr Sabina Favaro
18 September
Vital Geopolitics – Gerry Kearns
20 September
The invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis – Dr Tom Slater
18 October
Storytelling as method: migration, gender and inclusion in Durban – Dr Kira Erwin
1 November:
Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships – Dr Andy Tucker
15 November
Representing urban life in Africa and its diasporas – Dr Shari Daya and Dr Rike Sitas
Brown Bags (13:00-14:00)
23 August
‘Auditing’ vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city – Valmont Layne
6 September
pumflet: art, architecture and stuff – Ilze Wolff
27 September
Speculative Indigeneity – A (K)new Now – heeten bhagat
11 October
Conversations on cultural mapping and planning – Alicia Fortuin, Vaughn Sadie and Shamila Rahim
25 October
False Bay – Dr Hedley Twidle
