The Sheffield School of Architecture Reflections seminar series for 2021-2022 is themed on Global Urbanisms: Geographies of East and South.
The first seminar will be on 8 December 2021, 4.00pm to 5.30pm.
- In-person: The Well, Level 16, Arts Tower, Sheffield School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield.
- Online: meet.google.com/jsw-gjzt-ppr
For people attending in-person a drinks reception will follow the seminar.
AbdouMaliq Simone
Regions of Blackness
Not so much territories inhabited by Black people or even necessarily configured in explicit ways by racial capital, but rather the untoward implications of blackness coming into the urban world, and how extensive urbanization - as a matter of extending entities and processes beyond discernible proportions and values - engenders a prefiguring of abolition, and way of thinking territories of operation beyond property.
AbdouMaliq Simone is a world-renowned urbanist and currently a Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield. He is also a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and a visiting professor at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
The full series of seminars:
- AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, Sheffield
8 December 2021 - Pushpa Arabindoo, University College London
23 February 2022 - Ash Amin, University of Cambridge
30 March 2022 - Łukasz Stanek, University of Manchester
18 May 2022
The seminar series is organised by Iulia Statica and Tanzil Shafique.