Global Cities Now? Programme

UGRG CONFERENCE
5–6 November 2009
Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University

GLOBAL CITIES NOW?

PROGRAMME


Thursday 5th November

12.30 – 1.45: Registration

2.00 – 3.00: Session 1. Keynote Speaker:

Peter Taylor: ‘Extraordinary Cities’

3.00 – 3.30: Tea/Coffee Break

3.30 – 5.00: Session 2. Urban Networks.

1. David Bassens, Ben Derudder & Frank Witlox ‘Emerging nodes on ‘alternative’ financial circuits: the case of Islamic financial services’

2. Christian Matthiessen ‘World cities of knowledge: changing research networks and hierarchies. An analysis based on bibliometric indicators’

3. Emmanouil Tranos & Andy Gillespie ‘The urban geography of the Internet backbone networks in Europe’

4. Björn Surborg ‘Calling for vertical world city research’

5.15 – 6.00: Session 3. Keynote Speaker:

Ian Gordon: Title to be confirmed.

7.45 Conference Dinner
Venue: To be decided.


Friday 6th November

9.10 – 11.00: Session 4. Cities, Sites, Investments.

1. Nuri Yavan ‘Multinational corporations in the emerging global cities: the case of Ankara, Turkey’

2. Oleg Golubchikov ‘World-city-entrepreneurialism: new geometries of spatial governance and post-socialist St Petersburg’

3. Sabine Dörry ‘Global commercial real estate brokers and market transparency’

4. Fatih Eren ‘Global interactions in Istanbul’s retail market’

5. Allan Watson ‘The world according to iTunes: creative project ecologies and the global urban networks of digital music production’

11.00 – 11.30: Tea/Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.15: Session 5. Keynote Speaker:

Andrew Leyshon: ‘A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007–2008 financial crisis’

12.15 – 1.00: Session 6. Global Labour Circuits.

1. Jonathan Beaverstock ‘The world city’s ‘transnational elite’: expatriates, executives and entrepreneurs’

2. James Sidaway & Robina Mohammad ‘Gulf city spaces: migrant lives in a context of express urbanization’

1.00 – 2.00: Lunch*
* Postgraduate Posters are presented at lunch from 1.15pm onwards. Prize Judges: Marcus Doel and David B. Clarke.

2.00 – 3.30: Session 7. Global Urbanisms.

1. Ola Söderström ‘Constitutive mobilities: how translocal circulations shape ordinary cities’

2. Christoph Haferburg ‘Event driven urban development in South Africa: strategic interventions for the 2010 World Cup’

3. Laurence Cot ‘Global movements of urban planning knowledge and policy: the World Wildlife Fund’s low carbon cities’

4. Andrew Harris ‘Concrete geographies: assembling global Mumbai’

3.30 – 4.00: Tea/Coffee Break

4.00 – 5.00: Plenary Session. Keynote Speaker:

Wendy Larner: ‘Globalising cities and gendered intermediaries: the New Zealand designer fashion industry’