Forthcoming Events

Past Events

Dr. Pow Choon Piew @URBAN FEAST Future of Cities Brown Bag Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 24/04/2013 - 12:30

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Dr. Pow Choon Piew, an associate professor of urban geography at the National University of Singapore.

Dr. Pow holds a PhD from UCLA and is the author of the book Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life, published by Routledge (2009). He is currently an academic visitor based at the Oxford China Centre.

For the Urban Feast seminar Dr. Pow will be talking about his research on:

Riyad Mustafa @ URBAN FEAST Future of Cities Brown Bag Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 27/02/2013 - 12:00

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Dr. Riyad Mustafa, a postdoctoral associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.  For the Urban Feast seminar Riyad will be talking about his research on:

'The Making of a Cosmopolitan Muslim Place in Bangkok: Islam, Metropolis, State, and the Politics of Belonging in Ban Krua Community'

Thomas Blom Hansen: 'The Sacred and the City. How religious identity shapes urban life' - Distinguished Lecture Series 2013

Date: 
Tue, 26/02/2013 - 17:30

Questions of religion rarely entered the established canon of urban sociology and urban anthropology. In keeping with broader ideas of secularity and modernity, generations of urban scholars assumed that urban life produced modern individuality, and that the attraction of traditional religion was declining. However, the modern industrial city was always awash with all kinds of religious groupings, institutions, missionaries.

Chantal Butchinsky @ URBAN FEAST Future of Cities Brown Bag Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 23/01/2013 - 12:30

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Dr. Chantal Butchinsky, a lecturer at University of London Birkbeck College. Chantal has studied long term repeated street homelessness in Oxford since 1999.  For the Urban Feast seminar Chantal will be talking about her research on:

“Making and un-making place: What the grievances of ‘entrenched’ rough sleepers can tell us about causes of homelessness”

Martin Lundsteen @ URBAN FEAST Future of Cities Brown Bag Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 28/11/2012 - 12:30

This month's Urban Feast presenter will be  Martin Lundsteen, a visiting Researcher at COMPAS, from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Martin will be talking about his research on:

“An approach to processes of territorialisation, gentrification and spatialization of class and race in a small town in the north of Catalonia”

The Brown-bag seminar will be on Wednesday, 28 November 2012, from 12.30-13.30 pm, at 64 Banbury Road.

Insa Koch @ URBAN FEAST: Future of Cities Potluck Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 27/06/2012 - 11:30

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Insa Koch, DPhil Student in Social and Cultural Anthropology, ISCA; , University of Oxford.  Insa will be talking about her research on the council estate of Blackbird Leys at Oxford:

 'The Politics of Law and Order': The case of a marginalised council estate'

Igor Calzada @ URBAN FEAST: Future of Cities Potluck Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 23/05/2012 - 11:30

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Igor Calzada, Research Associate at the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities; Igor will be talking about his recent research on:    

'Future of City-Regions'

Prof. Neil Smith, Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-2012

Date: 
Tue, 24/04/2012 - 17:00

'City as commodity – crucible of revolts'
Speaker: Neil Smith (City University of New York)
Chair: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
 

Michele Acuto @ URBAN FEAST: Future of Cities Potluck Seminar

Date: 
Wed, 28/03/2012 - 11:30

This month’s Urban Feast presenter will be Michele Acuto, Stephen Barter Research Fellow, Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, University of Oxford: 

'The global politics of the global city: preliminary thoughts on some waste(d) connections'