Today marks one year since the passing of my dear colleague, Sylvia Chant, who had been my mentor and supporter. Professor of Development Geography, she was an enthusiastic educator, a critical intellect and a kind mentor to a countless number of students and colleagues. I was often jealous of how she was able to place […]
LSE is one of the first universities in the UK to deliver the rest of teaching online as part of its effort to tackle the COVID19 pandemic situation, and also to switch summer term written exams into online assessments. All public events are also to be cancelled or postponed. My department is to enact this […]
On 8th November 2019, it was my honour to give a public lecture at the University College London as part of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) public lecture series. This event coincided with the annual meeting of the IJURR editorial board, which I was attending as a new board member. The […]
From 15th – 22nd September 2019, RC21 conference, “In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures” was held in Delhi, India, and the visit to Delhi was a memorable one. At the conference, I convened sessions entitled “The Urban Spectre of ‘Global China’ and Critical Reflections on its Spatiality” together with my co-investigators […]
On 21st September 2019, I enjoyed the visit to O.P. Jindal Global University to give a keynote at the Inter-Disciplinary Workshop in Development Studies organised by the Centre for New Economics Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs. The workshop’s theme was “Urban Transformations”, and my keynote was entitled “Urban Transformation with ‘Asian Style’: Reflections on […]
On 17th September 2019, it was my pleasure to visit the Jawaharlal Nehru University and give a lecture at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development. My talk was titled “In the shadow of state-led gentrification: The commercialisation of residential properties in Seoul”. The visit also involved discussions with colleagues at the Centre for the […]
Pleased to announce that I have been invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, starting from January 2020. As a groundbreaking forum for intellectual debate, IJURR is at the forefront of urban and regional research, and I am honoured to be part of this endeavour. I look […]
On 25th April 2019, I had the pleasure of giving an open lecture at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies on the topic of “In the shadow of state-led gentrification: The commercialisation of residential properties in Seoul”. The abstract of the lecture can be found below. Abstract: This talk examines the rise and […]
I have been busying myself during the autumn term with an LSE centre called Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, which I hav begun directing since the beginning of August 2018. This newsletter in the tweet below sums up some of the activities of the Centre. #SawSweeHock #SoutheastAsiaCentre http://bit.ly/SEAC2018MT NEWS Prof Hyun Bang Shin appointed as LSE […]
I’ve been invited by the School to direct the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC). This is a multidisciplinary centre that was established in 2014, seeking to foster world-leading academic and policy research with a focus on the Southeast Asian social and political landscape. Building on the School’s deep academic and historical connections with […]