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Asian cities: colonial to global

Call for papers

  • Deadline: 31 January 2013
  • Date: April 2013 (exact day TBA)

Background
‘Asian Cities: Colonial to Global’ is intended to be a multi-disciplinary seminar. Contributions are welcome from the fields of architecture, urbanism, geography, area studies, history, linguistics, religious studies, social science, anthropology, etc., but please remember that the point of departure will always be the built environment.

Note also that this seminar is not intended to be an investigation into theoretical issues relating to the field of postcolonialism, rather it seeks to investigate more practical issues relating to the more literally ‘post-colonial’ (in the sense of the era following independence from erstwhile colonial or imperial powers), and the effects this has had on the built environment.

Contributions are invited that cover the regions of East, Southeast and South Asia (including countries that were not colonized (such as Japan or Thailand) or were only partially colonized (such as China).

More information: http://www.iias.nl/event/asian-cities-colonial-global

Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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