[csaa-forum] Urban Politics: Master class with Andy Merrifield - Melbourne, 10 June 2016

[Michele Lobo]

Dear Postgraduate students

You are welcome!
Urban Politics: Master Class with Andy Merrifield
(Writer, social theorist and urban geographer)

Deakin University’s Faculty of Arts and Education warmly welcomes Postgraduate students to submit an Expression of Interest to participate in a free Master Class with Andy Merrifield. This Master Class is a unique opportunity to briefly discuss your own work and develop synergies with other students in a supportive and generative group setting. You will have the opportunity to present your work and get valuable feedback from an internationally acclaimed urban social theorist. This will be followed by a discussion of key readings. ​
Date: Friday 10th June 2016
Time: 9.30 am – 2 pm
Location: Burwood Corporate Centre, Deakin University, Melbourne http://www.deakin.edu.au/life-at-deakin/our-locations/corporate-centres/burwood-corporate-centre
RSVP with EOI: 15 May 2016 to dlkelly at deakin.edu.au<mailto:dlkelly at deakin.edu.au> and michele.lobo at deakin.edu.au<mailto:michele.lobo at deakin.edu.au>
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar, writer, social theorist and urban geographer. He has written many articles, essays and reviews in both scholarly and popular publications and is the author of numerous books, including most recently Magical Marxism (Pluto, 2011), John Berger (Reaktion, 2012), The Politics of the Encounter (University of Georgia Press, 2013), and The New Urban Question (Pluto, 2014). His latest work, The Amateur, is forthcoming next year with Verso. Merrifield is a contributing editor of Adbusters.




Expression of Interest Information
If you would like to participate in this Master Class, please provide the following details to David Kelly dlkelly at deakin.edu.au<mailto:dlkelly at deakin.edu.au>  and Michele Lobo michele.lobo at deakin.edu.au<mailto:michele.lobo at deakin.edu.au> by 15 May 2016:

  *   Name
  *   Title of Research Project
  *   Institutional affiliation and Position
  *   Email
  *   Phone
  *   Research outline (200 words): Please provide a brief outline of your research project and how it resonates with the themes of the Master Class



 Program
9.30-10.00: Registration and coffee
10.00-11.20: Welcome and brief introductions, students introduce themselves and their research (5 min presentations) briefly and informally
11.20-12.00: Informal talk/discussion/response by Andy Merrifield
12.00-12.30: Lunch - Students are responsible for their own lunch – there are many options on campus.
12.30 -2.00pm: Discussion of readings
Essential Reading:
• Merrifield, A. (2014). Whither Urban Studies. The New Urban Question. London, Pluto Press: 1-10.
• Merrifield, A. (2015). The Shadow Citizenry. Eurozine. Online. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2015-07-24-merrifield-en.html
• Merrifield, A. (2015). Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” AntipodeFoundation.org. Online. https://antipodefoundation.org/2015/12/04/towards-a-metaphilosophy-of-the-urban/

Strongly Encouraged Reading:
• Wachsmuth, D., & Brenner, N. (2014). Introduction to Henri Lefebvre's" Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(2), 199.
• Davidson, M., & Iveson, K. (2015). Recovering the politics of the city: From the ‘post-political city ’to a ‘method of equality ’for critical urban geography. Progress in Human Geography, 39(5), 543-559.
• Shaw, K. (2015) The intelligent woman's guide to the urban question, City, 19(6), 781-800
Requirements:
Presentation: A brief presentation (5 minutes maximum) on your own work
Participation: Participation is free and involves engaging and exploring ideas in open discussions.

Kind Regards

David Kelly and Michele Lobo











Dr Michele Lobo
Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellow (ARC  DECRA)
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Faculty of Arts & Education

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