Following is a session that I am organising with Laam Hae (York University, Canada) as part of the forthcoming EARCAG conference taking place in Hong Kong in December 2016. The 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography Radicalism in Theory and Practice | 6th – 8th December, 2016 | Hong Kong […]
Please see the message below from EARCAG conference secretariat. EARCAG stands for the East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography, which brings together critical geographers around the world who work on the East Asian region. This time, the conference is to be held in Hong Kong in December 2016. I’m also planning to attend this, […]
On 26 February 2016, I am giving an invited talk at the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS. It will be interesting to present my on-going work in front of an audience that has primary interests in Korean affairs. More details about the talk can be found below. The Centre also hosts a number of interesting […]
In December 2015, I will be leading a series of seminars in Seoul on gentrification. This is to take place at Asia Centre, Seoul National University once a week and starting on 2 December. Gentrification has recently become a social and politically hot topic in Seoul, having seen frequent media coverage from late last year […]
Following up on my earlier post that announced the call for papers for organising sessions at the forthcoming annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago in April 2015 (for the original CFP, please click here), it is with great pleasure to see the wonderful line-up of speakers, both paper presenters and panel session members, […]
As part of the Urban Salon seminar series, I am organising a seminar to take place on Monday 23rd March 2015 at the LSE. The speaker, Christopher Gaffney, is going to discuss the actions of the Comitês Populares da Copa (CPC) or Popular Committees of the World Cup, which organised resistance movements and contested the hosting of […]
With apologies for any cross-posting, Call for Abstracts RC21 International Conference on The Ideal City: Between Myth and Reality 27-29 August 2015 | Urbino, Italy (Re-)making Cities: the politics of scale in mega-projects in Asia and beyond STREAM F – Urban renewal The globalisation of Asian economies has accompanied the emergence of urban real […]
Call for Papers for a session that I am to organise in anticipation of the 2015 annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago. Please feel free to disseminate and share. The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond Association of American Geographers (AAG) […]
I had a chance to be at the first conference on Mega-events and the City, and now the organisers are to host its second conference, taking place shortly before the 2014 FIFA World Cup. This should be an exciting conference for critical interrogation of mega-events. OUTLINE: “The Second International Conference on Mega-Events and the City […]
(Please kindly note that a new LSE blog is launched based on the outcomes of the workshop: Field Research Method Lab at http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearch) Field Research Method Lab: Addressing Field Research Constraints in China Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science Funded by the LSE Teaching and Learning Centre Dates: 6-7 […]