The 2017 Trier Summer University on "Decolonizing Urbanism"
explores space, power and knowledge in the urban sphere.
Our speakers will discuss the persistence of (neo)colonial power
relations and alternative visions of urban transformations.
All lectures take place in HS 13, Campus II, Trier University.
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Decolonising Urbanism: from Rhetoric and Deconstruction to Transdisciplinary Engagement
Prof. Dr. David Simon
Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg & Royal Holloway, London
Tuesday, June 6th: 11.00 am - 12.30 pm
The Unknowns: Water, Pipes, and the Ditch
Stokley Towles, M.F.A., MLIS
The Evergreen State College, USA
Member of the Faculty and Performance Artist
Tuesday, June 6th: 2.30 pm - 4:00 pm
(Post)Colonial Epistemologies of the Urban and Geographies of Knowledge Production
Dr. Noa Ha
TU Berlin, Germany
Center for Metropolitan Studies
Wednesday, June 7th: 9.00 am - 10.30 am
Conceptualizing the Coloniality of Mirgration: On Whiteness, European settler colonialism-migration and racial capitalism
Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany
Department of Sociology
Wednesday, June 7th: 11.00 am - 12.30 pm
(Un)Thinking, Decolonial Loving & Becoming: Critical Literacies for 'Postnormal' Times
Dr. Epifania Amoo-Adare
University of Bonn, Germany
Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Thursday, June 8th: 9.00 am - 10.30 am
New Approaches in Urban Planning: Understanding Urban Hyper-Diversity
Prof. Dr. Tuna Tasan-Kok
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Human Geography, Urban Planning and International Development
Friday, June 9th: 9.00 am - 10.30 am
The 'Genius' of the Local: Southern Urbanism, Ontological Politics and Decolonisation
Dr. Henrik Ernstson
University of Cape Town, South Africa (African Centre for Cities)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory)
Friday, June 9th: 11.00 am - 12.30 pm
