University of Heidelberg

Tuesday, October 19

10am

Welcome to Workshop
Christiane Brosius, Awadhendra Sharan, Tina Schilbach

Venue: Max Mueller Bhavan, Siddhartha Hall

Session I: Dwelling spaces

10.30am - 11.30am

Christian Henriot:
Straddling three eras: Shanghai’s hutments between rejection and remodelling (1926-1958)

11.30am - 12.30pm 

Marie Sander:
Gated Community Living in Shanghai: Inside, Outside or In-between? The Case of Western Expatriates 

12.30pm - 1.30pm 

Lunch Break

1.30pm - 2.30pm 

Commentary:
A G Krishna Menon
Making the city vs. studying the city  

2.30pm - 3pm 

Coffee and Tea Break 

Session II: Civilised spaces

3pm - 4pm

Melissa Butcher:
Distinctly Delhi: Affect and Exclusion in a Crowded City

4pm - 5pm 

Pallavi Mahajan:
Aestheticized Masculinity: grooming practices in Delhi 

5pm

Close

7 pm - 8.30pm

Public keynote at Max Mueller Bhavan

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Spaces of Exclusion, Inclusion, and Encounter in Old and New Shanghai

8.30pm

Reception

Wednesday, October 20

10am

Workshop resumes

Session III: Environmental spaces

10am - 11am 

Awadhendra Sharan:
Delhi's Yamuna

Session IV: Creative spaces

11am - 12pm

Anindita Datta:
The Royal Courtesan: Re-Imagining Delhi

12pm - 1pm 

Lunch Break 

1pm - 2pm 

Ravikant Sharma:
The coffeehouse in Delhi

2pm - 2.30pm 

Coffee and Tea break 

2.30pm - 3.30pm

Christiane Brosius:
The creative city - art and public spaces in New Delhi

3.30pm - 4.30pm

Tina Schilbach:
Institutional creativity and transnational education space in Shanghai

4.30pm

Close

6pm - 8pm

Public Roundtable at Sarai
Comparative Urbanism: Media, Events and Visuality in Delhi and Shanghai

Panelists:

Delhi: Amita Baviskar, Melissa Butcher, Ravi Sundaram, Ravi Vasudevan

Shanghai: Christian Henriot, Marie Sander, Tina Schilbach, Jeffrey Wasserstrom

8pm - 9pm 

Reception

Thursday, October 21     

10am - 12.30pm 

Concluding workshop discussion
Chair: Christiane Brosius 

12.30pm     

Lunch

1.30pm

End of Workshop