About the Urban Salon: This is a new seminar series aimed at scholars, artists, practitioners and others who are exploring urban experiences within an international and comparative frame. The setting will be informal and open, with relatively short presentations supporting circulated or visual material and plenty of time for discussion. We want to allow the diversity of urban experiences in different contexts to inform thinking about cities; we hope that narratives taken-for-granted in one context will disturb and be disrupted by experiences in other places. Or that accounts of the circulations of people and practices will expose commonalities across apparently quite divergent contexts. All the while, we want to decentre the dominance of European and North American urban experiences in understanding urbanity, while keeping them in sight, but coming to them through a wider world of cities and urban experience.

This initiative is supported by the UCL Urban Laboratory, CUCR and Sociology at Goldsmith’s College, the Geography Discipline at The Open University, The LSE Centre for Urban Research, the Cities Group at King’s College Geography Department, Sociology at Brunel University. We hope that we will be able to add your organisation to this list.

Registration required:

No

Free:

Yes