Chen Xiangming, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College, is visiting the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, the University of Oslo, on the 9th of June. He has offered to give feedback on student manuscripts.
You are expected to have a special lecture on the frontier issues in urban and global studies by Prof. Chen, and a discussion on the works of participants. You will be able to take this chance to leverage existing critical insights on Asia’s infrastructure and the global urbanism of Asia, particularly in China, and share your experiences with other early and middle-career scholars who work on the relevant topics. There is no registration fee.
Chen Xiangming
Chen Xiangming is the founding Dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College and the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, as well as a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He received his B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University and his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University. He is a co-author, with Anthony Orum, of The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Blackwell, 2003; Chinese edition, 2005); the author of As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005); the editor of and primary contributor to Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity (University of Minnesota Press, 2009; Chinese edition, 2009); the lead editor, with Ahmed Kanna, of Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities (Routledge, 2012); a co-author, with Anthony Orum and Krista Paulsen, of Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, second edition, 2018); the lead editor, with Nick Bacon, of Confronting Urban Legacy:Rediscovering Hartford and New England’s Forgotten Cities (Lexington Books, 2013); a co-editor, with Sharon Zukin and Philip Kasinitz, of Global Cities, Local Streets (Routledge, 2015, Chinese edition, 2016; Korean edition, 2017), and is the lead author of The Belt and Road Initiative as Epochal Regionalisation (Routledge, 2020; Chinese edition, forthcoming).
About Professor Chen's Presentation
An “infrastructure turn” has run through most social sciences and some humanities over the past twenty years. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since 2013 has broadened the study of the “infrastructure turn” to a global scale and deepened its penetration locally. The combined global-local dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructure development have begun to reshape cities and regional development and urban life in a large swath of the world, especially in the Global South. In this workshop, Xiangming Chen of Trinity College in Connecticut and Fudan University in Shanghai will first introduce and explain a broad and integrated framework for understanding the urban and regional impacts of the BRI-enabled infrastructure projects based on a select reading of the relevant literature. Then he will introduce a few empirical case studies on trans-local and local infrastructure projects in Europe, Asia, and Africa to illustrate the BRI’s growing impact on global urbanism.
Program
09:15-10:00 Introduction: The Infrastructure of Global Urbanism
10:15-11:00 Paper presentations and discussions I
11:15-12:00 Paper presentations and discussions II
How to apply?
Applicants should submit a current CV and an abstract (300 words maximum, its full paper is ready for submission) by 20 May 2022. Successful applicants will be notified by the middle of May and submit the draft of the manuscript (8000 words maximum) by 30 May. These drafts will be circulated to fellow participants and discussants in advance. Indeed, we expect that presenters will be open to feedback from fellow participants.
The above materials should be sent in a single PDF file to Dr. Yichi Zhang (yichi.zhang@ikos.uio.no).
Workshop Convenors:
Prof. Heidi Østbø Haugen, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.
Prof Chunrong Liu, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies.
Dr Yichi Zhang, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.
Organizer and Contact info:
Yichi Zhang (yichi.zhang@ikos.uio.no)
About the Organiser
This workshop is organised and funded by a RCN project "Moving up the value chain: Intermediation in industrial upgrading in the Pearl River Delta" (Project Code: UFT 275002). Its PI is Professor Heidi Østbø Haugen.
Also, this workshop is co-organised by the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies (FECCS) at UiO.