Lecture is Second in CUGS Series by Trinity Faculty on World Cities

What: Sarah Moser, the Paul E. Raether Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Urban Studies at the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS), will speak about “Jakarta: Prospects for a Southeast Asian Megacity in the 21st Century.” A reception will follow the lecture.

When: Tuesday, November 3 at 4 p.m.

Where: The Center for Urban and Global Studies, 70 Vernon Street on the Trinity campus.

Background: Moser is based at CUGS and is teaching courses on “Religion and the City” and “ Globalization in Urban Southeast Asia.”

She has a Ph.D. in cultural geography from the National University of Singapore and in 2008-09 held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moser’s current research investigates how political and religious ideology influences urban form in Southeast Asia and the Muslim world. She is working on an edited collection called New Cities in the Muslim World, which examines a variety of cities with Muslim-majority populations that have been recently built or are under construction in Africa, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Moser has studied, worked, and traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, and has conducted research in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Her lecture is the second in a series of three lectures sponsored by CUGS on world cities. The first dealt with Tokyo and the second, on November 17, will feature Rio de Janeiro.

For more information, please contact Jay Percy at 860-297-5175 or at: jason.percy@trincoll.edu.

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