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"Rethinking Cities and Communities:
Urban Transition Before and During the Era of Globalization"
November 14-15, 2008 |
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Sponsored by the Center for Urban and Global Studies
Trinity College, Hartford, CT |
The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College sponsored a major conference "Rethinking Cities and Communities: Urban Transition Before and During the Era of Globalization” on November 14-15, 2008 at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. The Center plays a central role in promoting Trinity’s new strategic initiative of innovative and integrated urban and global teaching, research, and engagement on campus, in Hartford, and globally. By organizing this conference, the Center reached out to develop scholarly exchanges and cooperation with scholars and institutions, especially those in the greater Northeast region, that share a broad interest in urban and global studies. This conference provided an open forum for both guest and Trinity scholars to present their research and engaged in debates that would reevaluate and advance the current interdisciplinary scholarly work on cities and communities in the context of globalization and transnationalism.
While the scholarship on globalization and cities is voluminous and diffused, this conference addressed several thematic questions that thread through six panels (see the Program page):
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How do we make sense of cities and communities becoming both contested terrains and shifting crossroads for transnational flows of movements and identities of race, gender, and politics?
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How do we think about the historical and political spatialization of city cultures?
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How do the social and the spatial (or built) dimensions of cities and communities interact and intersect?
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How do we better understand the differences and similarities between U.S. and non-U.S. cities regarding how they are affected by and respond to globalization?
The conference was held in Washington Room of Mather Hall on campus and opened to the Trinity and Hartford community!
To view the conference poster please click here.
Xiangming Chen
Dean and Director
Center for Urban and Global Studies
Raether Distinguished Professor of Sociology and International Studies
Trinity College
Faculty Planning Committee 2007-08:
Co-chairs: Luis Figueroa and Brigitte Schulz
Rob Corber
Anne Lambright
Vijay Prashad
Kristin Triff
Johnny Williams
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