[csaa-forum] Open Cities TfC Public Seminar (UTS, Sydney)

[katrina Schlunke]

>
> Transforming Cultures Public Seminar: Open Cities
>  Transforming Cultures Research Centre is pleased to present:
>
>  Open Cities: Public Seminar
>  Wednesday, 10 October, 3:00-5:00pm
>  Building 2, Room 7.065
>  FREE, All welcome.
>
>  This public seminar forms part of the OPEN CITIES: Urban Citizenship  
> in Berlin and Sydney project.
>
>
>  Speakers: Mark Stein (Universitaet Muenster), Anja Schwarz (Free  
> University, Berlin) and Fiona Allon (UWS)
>
>  Discussant: Katrina Schlunke
>
>  The openness of contemporary cities challenges the closed territorial  
> borders of the nation-state. Increasingly the culturally diverse  
> metropolis provides a space for forms of citizenship and belonging  
> that diverge considerably from national identity and formal  
> citizenship. The heterogeneity of the city can become a basis for new  
> forms of cultural and political mobilisation, as urban subjects  
> normally excluded from the national imagination make their presence  
> felt in very concrete ways. This seminar explores how a notion of  
> urban citizenship can be used as a conceptual tool for understanding  
> reconfigurations of identity and belonging that are frequently at odds  
> with wider processes of nation building. Each speaker will present  
> case studies from Berlin and Sydney in order to explore the emerging  
> dimensions of an urban cultural citizenship that undermines  
> traditional ideas of nationhood by affirming new public cultures and  
> transnational urban identities.
>
>  This project has been undertaken with support from the ARC’s  
> International Linkage Scheme.
>  See:  
> http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/news_events/ 
> open_cities_public_seminar.html for details.
>
> -- 
> Lindi Renier Todd
> Research Assistant, Grants and Publications Officer
> Trans/forming Cultures
> University of Technology, Sydney
> Lindi.Todd at uts.edu.au
> + 61 2 9514 2757
>
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