The Office of the Dean of Humanities would like to invite you to attend a public lectures presented as part of the Capital Cities Project Institutional Research Theme and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Date: Thursday, 10 April 2014
Time: 18:00-19:30 (followed by a reception)
Venue: Sanlam Auditorium, UP Conference Centre, University of Pretoria, Hatfield Campus
RSVP by 7 April: [email protected]

‘From the South? Engaging critical urbanism’ by Professor Sophie Oldfield

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the West and embraces the global South as the epicentre of urbanism. This talk engages with the complex ways in which cities of the global South and the global North are rapidly shifting, and the imperative for multiple genealogies of knowledge production and a diversity of empirical entry points to understand contemporary urban dynamics. The talk reflects on the geographical realignment in urban studies, and the place of South African urban studies in this fluid and increasingly geographically and conceptually contested debate.

‘Looking South’ by Dr Noëleen Murray

Considerations of the urban have in recent years resulted in a growth in the forms of scholarship in and beyond the traditional field of urban studies to incorporate different disciplinary perspectives, scales and creative reflections. Thinking beyond the turn from the study of the city that focused on the empirical and the factual, this talk will think through modes of scholarship and knowing in the field. Dr Murray will argue for a return to looking more attentively at the materiality of space – towards a theoretically informed position in relation to southerness, forms of the city, and its aesthetics and technologies of visualisation.

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