Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Workshop and Plenary Session

Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Workshop and Plenary Session

Ananya Roy - University of California, Los Angeles & Neil Brenner - Harvard Graduate School of Design

Monday, May 9, 2016 - 4:30pm
Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center See map
391 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

This final session invites workshop participants and interested Yale scholars and affiliates to come together for an open conversation about new directions in the study of Asian cities at Yale. The evening will include two plenary talks by distinguished scholars of Asian and global urbanism, as well as ample time for conversation and discussion over dinner.

Plenary speakers:

moderated by Helen Siu, K. Sivaramakrishnan, and Erik Harms


The program for Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities consists of three afternoon workshops, held on the first Monday of each month over the course of the Spring 2016 Academic Semester. Each workshop will focus on a single theme, and will highlight the interdisciplinary work of three invited speakers from the humanities and the humanistic social-sciences. Each workshop will include perspectives from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Each speaker will present twenty minutes papers, followed by a seminar-style discussion with the audience. The discussion will be designed to maximize audience interaction, and will be moderated by a members of the Yale faculty involved in the study of Asian cities.

All three afternoon workshops will be held in Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.

Workshops will begin at 3:30 pm.

Workshops will be followed by extended discussion. Refreshments and snacks will be served.

At the end of the semester, on May 9th, a special symposium, discussion, and plenary session will engage Yale faculty and students from across the university in an extended discussion of Asian Cities. That final event will be held at the Greenberg Conference Center and will begin at 4:30 pm.

Sponsored by The Whitney Humanities Center, with support from the Council on East Asian Studies, the Council on South Asian Studies, the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, and the MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies
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China, Transregional, South Asia, Southeast Asia