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Organisation of Workshops and Conference Sessions |
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2016
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RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 30 August - 2 September, London
Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 29 March - 2 April, San Francisco
Book Launch: Planetary Gentrification (2016, Polity Press), 16 March, LSE, London |
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2015
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Conference sessions on "The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond" at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, 21-25 April 2015 Winter School on Gentrification (four weekly seminars), Asia Center, Seoul National University, 2-22 December, Seoul RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 2-4 September, Exeter
International Sociology Association RC21 Conference, 27-29 August, Urbino, Italy
Workshop on Learning from China and Questioning China Exceptionalism: An interdisciplinary debate, Jointly hosted by the Urban Salon and the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, 20 May, London Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 21-25 April, Chicago
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2013
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Conference sessions on "Mega-events and Cities of Spectacle in the Global South" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, "New Geographical Frontiers", London, 28-30 August 2013. Sessions sponsored by the RGS Urban Geography Research Group and Developing Areas Research Group. See session details here: Session 1 and Session 2 Field Research Method Lab: Addressing Field Research Constraints, 6-7 June 2013. Funded by the LSE Researcher Development Fund
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2012 |
Towards an Emerging Geography of Gentrification in the Global South (in collaboration with Professor Loretta Lees, King's College, as Principal Applicant; Dr Hilda Herzer, University of Buenos Aires; Dr Ernesto Lopez, University of Chile). Urban Studies Seminar Series Competition 2011. Funded by Urban Studies Foundation and Urban Studies journal
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2011 |
Workshop on "The Symbiosis between Neoliberalism and Endogenous (Developmental) Processes" at the APNHR (Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research) Conference, "Neoliberalism and Urbanisation in Asia Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Housing", The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2011 Conference session (with Dr Ernesto Lopez at the University of Chile) on "Gentrification in the Global South: Dilapidation, Obsolescence and Land Exploitation" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, "The Geographical Imagination", London, 31 August-2 September 2011. Sessions sponsored by the RGS Urban Geography Research Group |
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2010 |
Workshop on the Guangzhou Asian Games held at Sun Yat-sen University, September 2010. Funded by the STICERD/LSE Annual Fund New Researcher Award |
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2004 |
ASEF-Alliance Annual Asia-Europe Workshop Series 2003/04, "Enabling role of the public sector in urban housing and regeneration: Converging and diverging experiences in Asia and Europe". Co-hosted by the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (LSE) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 12-14 July 2004, Beijing, China (key role in event proposal, funding application, invitation of contributors, programme organisation and administration) |
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Media and Outreach |
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2016 |
TenCent China live online talk on the Olympic Games. 47000 peak-time simultaneous viewers, 20 August BFM 89.9 - The Business Station on Olympics, and its effects on development in emerging economies, 18 August The Independent (UK), 2 June, on Gentrification TBS eFM 101.3 MHz This Morning (Live), 1 June 2016, on Efforts to prevent gentrification. URL: http://tbsefm.seoul.kr/efm/ThisMorning/clips.jsp Student journalist at City, University of London on Earls Court redevelopment, 7 November 2016 Online magazine The World Weekly, 1 December 2016, on Korean politics |
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2015 |
The Seoul Institute (a Seoul metropolitan government think tank), 23 June, on urban policies in times of recession Global Poverty Project (http://www.globalpovertyproject.com) Book Interview, 3 March Korean Economy Daily, 23 February ABC News on the termination of China’s One Child policy, 29 October France24 Live, a Paris-based news channel, on Beiing-Tianjin-Hebei city-region development in China, 30 October |
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2014 |
Sankei Express (Japan, 2014) Beneath the Surface: Issues Making Modern China, Northstar, London, 17 October 2014 | “How Chinese cities are different from each other?” |
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2013 |
CNBC (USA, 2013) | Energy Opportunities: Living Cities Podcast on Architecture and Design: Framing the Urban Experience, LSE Review of Books blog, LSE The New Asian Middle Class Signature Conference, Asia House, London, 8 April 2013 | “China’s middle class in making” Exame (Brazil), 29 November Monocle Radio Live (UK), 15 July City University Radio (UK), 24 January Politiken (Denmark), 18 October Freelancer Peter Simpson for a book project on Beijing Olympics 2008: An economic impact assessment, 2 July |
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2012 |
Shanghai Wenhui Daily (China, 2012) | "奥运影响或10年后方能见分晓" (on the impact of the Olympic Games). View image file Veja (Brazil, 2012) Xinhua News Agency (China, 2012) Invited talk at The Rise of China's Megacities: Young Professionals China Discussion and Networking, London, 10 September 2012 |
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2011 |
Die Welt (Germany, 2011) | "Chinas Strategie im Wettbewerb der Metropolen" (18 October) Dong A Ilbo (South Korea, 2011) The Economist (2011) for inclusion in its report, "Asian Green City Index" (see page 14). See also the coverage of the report here |
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2010 |
China Daily (China, 2010) | "As homes fall, desperation rises", 5 March 2010 |
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Invited academic talks and presentations |
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2016 |
“Planetary Gentrification: What it means for East Asia”, Globalisation, Urbanisation and Identity Series, Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, 14 November, London Keynote: “The Political Economy of Speculative Urbanisation in East Asia”, Symposium on Speculative Urbanization in East Asia, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 2 November, Toronto Book manuscript workshop: City Dreams: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place, University of Texas at Austin, 29 October, Austin, Texas “Speculative urbanisation, Dispossession and Gentrification”, Kosmos-Workshop: Universal Gentrification? Conceptual Challenges of Comparative Urbanism, Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13-15 October, Berlin Keynote: Utopian Urban Futures: Histories, Imaginations, Possibilities Conference, University of Leeds, 27-28 June, Leeds “Speculative urbanisation, gentrification and the right to the city”, Symposium on City of Hope, The Seoul Institute, 23-24 June, Seoul “Envisioned by the state: Entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea”, Conference on Global Cities and Urban Studies: Korea in Comparative Perspective, Central European University, 16-18 June, Budapest “Reconceptualising the urban: China’s urbanisation and its implications for global urban studies on Gentrification”, Workshop: From Chicago to Shenzhen: The City One Hundred Years On, City University of Hong Kong, 6-7 June, Hong Kong
Keynote: Gentrification Forum,
Seongdong District Government, May 2016, Seoul
“Urban accumulation and the ‘culture of property’: Beyond the authoritarian nature of the state in China”, Workshop: Decoding the Urban - Engaging with Current Debates on Urban Processes in India and China. CEIAS-CNRS, EHESS, 11-12 May, Paris Workshop: Changing values/ideas/ethics in China, Department of Anthropology, LSE, 10 May, London Keynote: “What is the problem with gentrification in South Korea?” National Assembly Forum on Addressing Gentrification Problems, Takeout Drawing and ‘Eul-committee’ at The Minjoo Party of Korea, 11 March, Seoul Panelist, the 2nd Hans Crescent symposium on Beyond the Smart City: Towards a Democratic Alternative, 20 February, London Panelist, Session on “Comparative Regional Issues in the Dynamics of Geopolitics and Migration”, African Leadership Centre’s 2016 MSc Student Conference on Leadership: Migration and Geopolitics in Africa, Asia and Latin America, King’s College London, 18 February, London Panelist, Sessions on “What is the ‘new Asia’?” and “Gentrification: Who benefits?”, Bangkok Edge Festival (http://www.bangkokedge.com), 13-14 February, Bangkok, Thailand “Developmental urbanisation and the genealogy of urban rights in South Korea”, Centre of Korean Studies seminar programme, SOAS, 26 February, London |
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2015 |
“Urban regeneration without gentrification?”, Dalpaeng’i Gongbubang, The Hope Institute, 24 December, Seoul Keynote: “Is it possible to have urban regeneration without gentrification?”, Policy-network Forum, Seoul National University, 23 December, Seoul “Property before people? Urban regeneration, gentrification and displacement”, International Seminar on Suwon’s Strategies for Leading the Future, Suwon Research Institute, 16 December, Suwon, South Korea “Asset accumulation-oriented urban regeneration and gentrification”, Seoul Metropolitan Government, 14 December, Seoul “Dreaming of a world without gentrification”, 5th Hannam Forum, Takeout Drawing, 14 December, Seoul “Remaking cities without gentrification”, Gyeongbuk University, 10 December, Daegu, South Korea “China meets Korea: The Asian Games, entrepreneurial local states and debt-driven development”, SNUAC Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Seminar Series, Asia Center, Seoul National University, 2 December, Seoul “Economic transition and speculative urbanization in China: Gentrification versus dispossession”, mini-Conference on Gentrification in the Context of East Asian Developmental Urbanization, Asia Center, Seoul National University, 21 October, Seoul ”Progressive Cities and the Genealogy of Urban Rights”, Seoul as a Model of Progressive City conference, The Seoul Institute, 15-16 October, Seoul Keynote: “Learning from Urban China”, at ‘Placing Culture in Urban China’ Workshop, University College London, 2 July, London "Speculative Urbanisation and the Politics of Displacement”, Roundtable: Geopolitical Economies of Development and Democracy, University of British Columbia, 27-29 May, Vancouver Keynote: ”Speculative Urbanisation and the Politics of Displacement”, the East Asian Conference on Housing Welfare, The Seoul Institute, 14-16 May, Seoul Keynote: “The Political Economy of Speculative Urbanisation in East Asia”, the International Conference on Urban challenges in the XXI Century, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 4-8 May, Mexico City “Mega-projects and Urban Development”, Special Events for MSc Local Economic Development students, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, 20 March, London “Whither Speculative Urbanisation? Asian Urban Futures in the (coming) Age of De-Growth”, The Speculative City: Emergent Forms of the Built Environment, An Interdisciplinary Symposium at The University of Hong Kong, 6-7 March, Hong Kong “Rethinking the Urban and Urban Centrality”, Defining the Urban workshop, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, 9 February, Manchester UK-China Urban Transformations and Low Carbon Cities Scoping Workshop, jointly organised by the ESRC (UK), EPSRC (UK) and NSFC (China), 21-23 January, Chengdu, China |
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2014 |
“Is China gentrifying? Economic transition, speculative urbanisation and accumulation by dispossession”, China Planning Research Group seminar, University College London, 12 November, London “How Chinese cities are different from each other?”, Beneath the Surface: Issues Making Modern China, Northstar, 17 October, London Discussant at the Workshop: Grassroots Implementation of Planning and Policy: Residents’ Involvement and Indifference in Chinese Cities, organised by Prof Stephan Feuchtwang, Department of Anthropology, LSE, 25-26 September “Contesting speculative urbanisation and strategising discontents”, The City at a Time of Crisis: Tracing and researching crisis-ridden urban public spaces in Athens, Greece, 9-10 May, Athens “Is China gentrifying? Economic transition, speculative urbanism and accumulation by dispossession”, School of Geography seminar, University of Leeds, 12 February, Leeds Discussant, the Urban Uncertainties workshop, Shifting ground: The precarity of land on the urban periphery, LSE Cities, 30 January, London |
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2013 |
Discussant at the Debating Planetary Urbanisation Symposium, organised by Prof Jennifer Robinson, Department of Geography, University College London, 13 December 2013 International Workshop on Local Government Entrepreneurship in China: Dynamics, Achievement and Risks, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (co-hosted with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore), 25-26 October 2013 Panelist at the Tribute to Neil Smith session organised by Tom Slater (Edinburgh), RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 28 August 2013 International Workshops on Geo-political economies of East Asia. Round 1: Re-locating East Asian developmental states in their transnational and local contexts, Seoul National University Asia Center, Seoul, 22-23 August 2013 Public lecture on "China's Speculative Urbanism and the Discontents" at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, 14 August 2013 China Planning Research Symposium, China Planning Research Group, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, London, 31 May 2013 Workshop on Economic Inter-dependence and Comparative Regional Dynamics in Developed and Developing Economies: Trade and Regional Trajectories in China and the EU, University of Sussex, 16-17 May 2013 The New Asian Middle Class Signature Conference, Asia House, London, 8 April 2013 http://asiahouse.org/news-and-analysis/detail?id=189 LSE Student Union China Week, "What is Contemporary China?", London, 7 March 2013 |
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2012 |
Workshop on 'New Directions in Urban Chinese Studies', Centre of Urban History, University of Leicester. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the British Inter-University China Centre (BICC), 17 December 2012 The Rise of China's Megacities: Young Professionals China Discussion and Networking, London, UK. Organised by the China-Britain Business Council, the China-Britain Youth Association and Ernst & Young Far East Network, 10 September 2012 5th Local Economic Development Forum, "Prospects and Constraints for LED", Department of Geography and Environment, LSE, 10 March 2012 http://www.ledforum2012.co.uk |
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2011 |
Regions in the 21st Century: An International Conference on Urban and Regional Development, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 16-18 December 2011 |
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2010 |
Plenary speech at the International Symposium on Entering the Century of Cities, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, 15 December 2010 Research Seminar series, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, 17 November 2010 Faculty of Architecture, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, November 2010 Research Seminar series, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, 22 September 2010 School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 15 September 2010 School of Urban Planning and geography, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 13 and 20 September 2010 CCS Workshop, Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, 2 June 2010 China Planning Research Group (CPRG) Seminar Series, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, 27 January 2010 |
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2009 |
Public Lecture at the Centre of Urban Planning & Research, Guangzhou, Planning Institute, 12 May 2009 Centre for East Asian Studies Seminar Series, University of Bristol, 16 March 2009 Department of East Asian Studies Staff Seminar Series, University of Leeds, 11 March 2009 |
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2008 |
International Seminar on 'Urban Governance or Administration - A China-Europe Dialogue', hosted by the Renmin University of China and the University of Duisburg-Essen, Beijing, 4-5 December 2008 Urban Research Centre Seminar at the London School of Economics, London, 28 October 2008 Postgraduate Seminar at Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, September 2008 International workshop on 'Comparative urban poverty and marginalization research', to be hosted by the Urban China Research Centre, Cardiff University, 12-15 June 2008 International symposium on 'Japan's shrinking regions', to be hosted by the National Institute of Japanese Studies, White Rose East Asia Centre, and the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, July 2008 |
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2007 |
International symposium on 'Livelihoods, Mobility and Development: The Chinese Experiences', hosted by the National Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, 30 November 2007 Workshop, 'City B/light: Narratives of historical representation and physical regeneration', hosted by the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, 28 February 2007 |
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Conference presentations |
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2016 |
“Developmental urbanisation and the genealogy of urban rights in South Korea” Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 29 March - 2 April, San Francisco |
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2015 |
“East Asian Speculative Urbanisation and the Politics of Displacement through Consent and Coercion”, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 21-25 April, Chicago Panelist, Session on Korean development politics: Past, present, and future organised by Jamie Doucette, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 21-25 April, Chicago |
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2014 |
“Urban Spatial Restructuring, Event-led Development and Scalar Politics”, 2nd International Conference on Mega-events and the City, 27-30 April, Rio de Janeiro |
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2013 |
Years of Radical Change: Korean Screen Culture, SOAS, London, 31 May - 1 June 2013 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 9-13 April 2013 |
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2011 |
APNHR (Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research) Conference, "Neoliberalism and Urbanisation in Asia Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Housing", The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2011 4th International Workshop on Post-communist Urban Geographies, "Space, Culture and Transition in Post-socialist Cities", Bucharest, Romania, 14-17 September 2011 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, "The Geographical Imagination", London, 31 August-2 September 2011 6th International Conference of Critical Geography, "Crisis - Causes, Dimensions, Reactions", The Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 16-20 August 2011 RC21 Conference, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7-9 July 2011 2nd International Conference on China's Urban Transition and City Planning, University of Cardiff, 27-28 May 2011 An International Workshop on Urban Utopianism, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 12-14 May 2011 |
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2010 |
International Conference on Mega-events and the City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2010 APNHR (Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research) Conference on Affordability, Sustainability and Livability: Towards a Comparative Perspective, Beijing, China, August 2010 LSE Teaching Day 2010, 18 May 2010, London |
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2009 |
International Workshop on Urban Redevelopment in East Asian Cities: The People's Approach. 7-9 May 2009. Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist Unviersity International Symposium on Housing Affordability and Market Stability. 24-27 March 2009. Jointly organised by Housing Studies and Tsinghua University |
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2008 |
The Fifth East Asian Regional Conferences in Alternative Geography, Seoul, 13-16 December 2008 |
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Pre-2008 |
APNHR (Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research) Conference on Transformations in Housing, Urban Life, and Public Policy, Seoul, 30 August - 1 September 2007 International Conference on China's Urban Transformation and City Planning, Cardiff, 29 - 30 June 2007 Revenge and Renewal: Revanchist Urbanism and City Transformation Conference, Newcastle, 10-11 August 2006 RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31 August - 2 September 2005 ('Catching the very last train: homeownership and residential redevelopment in Beijing') 30th Congress of the International Geographical Union, Glasgow, 15 - 20 August 2004 ASEF-Alliance Annual Asia-Europe Workshop Series 2003/04, Beijing, 12 - 14 July 2004 International Conference of the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR), Tirana, Albania, 26 - 28 May 2003 |
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