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2011
B11 Annual Workshop
Growing up and growing old in Shanghai, Delhi and Tokyo. Inter-generational stories from Asia’s global cities.
Date: 7-10 September 2011
Venue: Abteilung Kultur und Bildung, Deutsches Generalkonsulat Shanghai (Goethe-Institut Shanghai)
For the workshop website and the full programm, please click here.
Lecture on Delhi's public art festival "48°C Public. Art.Ecology"
Prof Dr Brosius, B11 Project Coordinator and Cluster Chair for Visual and Media Anthropology, gave a lecture on Delhi’s public art festival “48°C Public.Art.Ecology” at the conference “South Asian Festivals on the Move”, which took place in Oslo, 23-25 June 2011. The conference was jointly organised by the Cluster project group B7 “Staging religion” (coordinator: Axel Michaels) and the project “Perspectives on Festivity” at the Department for Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at Oslo University (Ute Hüsken).
The full conference programme is available here.
Conference Panel at ASI/ICAS conference in Honolulu, 31 March-3 April 2011: New Urban Imaginaries of Public Space in Delhi and Shanghai
B11 Members Melissa Butcher and Tina Schilbach convened a panel at the joint conference of the Association for Asian Studies and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ASI/ ICAS) in Honolulu in 2011. Under the theme of New Urban Imaginaries of Public Space in Delhi and Shanghai, panelists discussed contested new sites of gender, class and religion as they are emerging as part of the two cities’ globalisation process. The panel explored the bounded, regulated, disciplined and exclusive nature of these spaces and inquired into their transformative and creative capacity as meaningful public sphere. Participants also included Cluster scholar and India-specialist Laila Abu-Er-Rub.
Melissa Butcher
Distinctly Delhi: Affect and Exclusion in a Crowded City
Tina Schilbach
Consuming distinction? Middle-class suburbia in global Shanghai
Laila Abu-Er-Rub
Outdoor Advertising as Gendered and Racialised Public Spaces in New Delhi
2010
Annual Workshop
Spaces in-between: from non-place to shared space in developmental cities
19-23 October 2010 (New Delhi)
In October 2010, B11 convened its first annual workshop at the Goethe-Institute Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi. Moving away from Marc Augé’s concept of “non-place”, which is often used in conjunction with urban globalisation processes, we were interested in the ways in which new spaces of consumption, dwelling or events can generate contestation, meaning, memory and belonging, and perhaps even shape new forms of community and public-ness. The workshop brought together a number of China and India experts from social and media anthropology, history and geography to discuss case studies as diverse as slums and gated community enclaves, art festivals and mega-events, as well as coffeehouses and beauty salons. Many “in-between spaces” exist in both Shanghai and Delhi, having emerged through shared narratives of the modern city and globalised urbanity, while working closely within vernacular practices and histories. Engaging critically with Augé’s anthropology of place, participants discussed “in-between spaces” as a useful starting point to compare the globalisation of urban space more carefully across local contexts and national boundaries.
2009
Graduate Seminar
Weltstädte-Stadtwelten / World Cities-City Worlds
Winter Semester 2009/2010, Heidelberg
During the winter semester 2009/2010, B11 members Christiane Brosius and Nic Leonhardt conducted a seminar on World Cities-City Worlds for students of ethnology and anthropology at Heidelberg University. Thematically related to the agenda of the B11 project, this seminar was conducted as a platform for discussing recent theories on and case studies of urbanisation, mega-cities, citizenship and urban culture and history, and for working with innovative didactic methods and teaching material. Students were familiarised with the terminology of urban studies and history as well as with topics such as places/non-places, mobility, migration, city marketing, youth culture, spatial segregation, city festivals and parades, city media and mediatised cities, as well as mapping the city. In December 2009, Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya, who at the time were short-term visiting fellows to the Cluster, gave a guest talk on Tiled gods appear on Mumbai's streets in the seminar.
Kick off-Workshop
10-12 July 2009 (Heidelberg)
Growing up and growing old in Shanghai, Delhi and Tokyo. Inter-generational stories from Asia’s global cities.
Date: 7-10 September 2011
Venue: Abteilung Kultur und Bildung, Deutsches Generalkonsulat Shanghai (Goethe-Institut Shanghai)
Convener: Christiane Brosius and Tina Schilbach (Project Group B11 "Difference, Danger and New Urban Imaginaries of the Public in Asia and Europe")
Co-Organiser: Marie Sander (B11)
For the workshop website and the full programm, please click here.
