Dr. Dallas Rogers, Research Fellow from the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at University of Western Sydney, will be at Cities Cluster during February 2014. He will give a seminar on his research, Chaired by Associate Professor Tim Bunnell (FASS Geography) on Weds 19th February, from 10:30am-12pm. Dr. Rogers will be working on two Read More…

“Assembling Place: The Case of Maxwell Street, Chicago”, a seminar by Tim Cresswell. Wednesday Nov 13. 10:00-11:30am. Co-organized by FASS Cities Cluster and FASS Geography. Details in the poster. Venue: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, AS7 Shaw Foundation Building, Level 6, Research Division Seminar Room (06-42). To get to the Read More…

Notes on the Familiar Stranger: thinking through ambivalent encounters in public spaces. Part One. by Dr. Junjia Ye, postdoctoral research fellow in urban geography at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, part of the GLOBALDIVERCITIES project, and Visiting Research Fellow at ARI. Thursday evening 6.30pm at the post office Read More…

Downloadable cluster update newsletter – Fall 2013

Prof D. Parthasarathy (ICCR Visiting Chair in India Studies, FASS South Asian Studies Programme and IIT Bombay) will give a seminar which will be followed by a launch of the book Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia (Springer 2013)(link to editor’s proof of the Introduction chapter here), which he co-edited with Read More…

A group of academics from Humboldt University in Berlin will be visiting FASS in mid-August. Prof. Julia von Blumenthal has requested a meeting with urban scholars to discuss possible research collaboration/partnership. The meeting will be at 2pm on Tues 13th August at the Research Division Seminar Room (AS7, 6-42). You can download the poster here. Read More…

Update: Report on the seminar here. Professor David Strand will present his paper “A Walk in the Park: Singapore’s Green Corridor in Light of Manhattan’s High Line” on August 5th, Monday, from 2:30-4:00pm. Professor Mike Douglass  (ARI/Sociology) will Chair. More info here. The venue is the Research Division Seminar Room at AS7 (Shaw Foundation Building) Read More…

Urban Friendship Networks as “Communities of Convenience” By Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Migration, diversity, and, despite reports of its demise, multiculturalism, still dominate much debate in the social sciences as well as amongst policy makers in a range of countries and contexts. These Read More…

On Monday, August 19th, 2013 Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu will give a presentation entitled Conversations over Walls: Friendship and Aspiration Amongst Low Wage Migrants in Singapore and Dubai. This event is jointly organized with the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) at FASS. The Conversations over Walls seminar poster can be downloaded here. Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu is a Research Read More…