Original - Duke University | Middle East Studies Center

Original - Duke University | Middle East Studies Center

Spring 2015
Rethinking Global Cities
Jan 21
Reading Group (RSVP Required)
Bogotá
Speaker: Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá
Public Lecture
Jan 22
“Cities, Equity and Quality of Life”
Speaker: Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá
Reel Global Cities Film Series
Jan 28
“City of Life” (Dubai)
Introduction and Discussion: miriam cooke, Duke Univ
Feb 5
Rethiking Global Cities Conference (Day 1)
“Virtual Uprisings: Tahrir Square”
Keynote Speaker: Nezar AlSayyad, UC Berkeley
Rethiking Global Cities Conference (Day 2)
Feb 6
Panels: Margins | Global Cities/Local
Histories | Curation | Graduate Student Panel
Rethiking Global Cities Conference (Day 3)
Feb 7
Panels: Infrastructure | City/Novel/Film |
Faculty Roundtable
Reel Global Cities Film Series
Feb 16
“The City Without Jews” + 5 short films (Vienna)
Discussion: Ingo Zechner, IFK Vienna
Reading Group (RSVP Required)
Feb 18
Vienna
Speaker: Ingo Zechner, IFK Vienna
Reading Group (RSVP Required)
Mar 2
“Ottoman Cosmopolitanism”
Speaker: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard univ
Public Lecture
Mar 3
“Early Modern Istanbul”
Speaker: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard univ
Reel Global Cities Film Series
Mar 23
“The Lunchbox” (Mumbai)
Introduction & Discussion: Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke Univ
Public Lecture
Mar 30
“Rethinking Global Cities: Tokyo”
Speaker: Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo
Reading Group (RSVP Required)
mar 31
Tokyo
Speaker: Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo
Reading Group (RSVP Required)
Apr 6
Cairo
Speaker: Nasser Rabbat, MIT
Public Lecture
Apr 6
“Arab Cities and the Limits of Supra-Urbanization”
Speaker: Nasser Rabbat, MIT
Apr 14
Langford Lecture (RSVP Required)
“Occupied Istanbul: 1918-1923”
Speaker: Erdağ Göknar, Duke Univ
Reel Global Cities Film Series
Apr 20
“Trash” (Rio De Janiero)
Introduction & Discussion: Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke Univ
6:00-8:00 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
6:00 pm
Field auditorium
Nicholas School
7:00 pm
Griffith Film Theater
Bryan Center, West Campus
6:30 pm
Thomas Room
Lilly Library, East Campus
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Von Canon Hall
Bryan Center, West Campus
9:15 am - 1:30 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
7:00 pm
Griffith Film Theater
Bryan Center, West Campus
6:00-8:00 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
6:00-8:00 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
6:00 pm
Richard White Auditorium
East Campus
7:00 pm
Griffith Film Theater
Bryan Center, West Campus
4:30 pm
East Duke Room 108
East Campus
12:00-2:00 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
12:00-2:00 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
6:00 pm
room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
12:00 pm
Doris Duke Center
7:00 pm
Griffith Film Theater
Bryan Center, West Campus
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s “Partnership in a Global Age.” Additional
support by AMI, APSI, CES, CLACS, DISC, & DUMESC. For more information visit:
http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/ reading group RSVPs: [email protected]