The Global City: Past and Present: “Peoples”: IHR London Programme

The Global City: Past and Present
An AHRC International Research Network



Workshop 3: “Peoples”

Institute for Historical Research, London, May 26th-27th, 2016

May 26th

Introduction: 10.15am

Session 1: 10.45am-12.30pm

Bringing the Empire Home, Chair: Joe McLoughlin (Ohio U.)

Lisa Voigt (Hispanic Studies, Ohio State U.), “Performing Global Cultures in Early Modern Lisbon”

Rosie Spooner (Art History, Glasgow), “The Exhibition as City and the City as Spectacle”

Lorelle Semley (History, Holy Cross College), “Bordeaux, Forgotten Black Metropolis”


12.30-1.15pm: Lunch


Session 2: 1.15pm-3pm

Identity in the Globalizing City, Chair: Jane Mangan, (Davidson College)

Kristie Flannery (History, University of Texas, Austin), “Negotiating heterogeneity in early modern Manila: Cesar Fallet, from foreigner to vassal (1745-1760)”

Liat Maggid Alon (Middle East Studies, Ben Gurion University), “People in Egyptian Metropoles: Social hierarchies, Physical layout and the Human Landscape in the first half of the 20th century”

Jose Antonio Gonzalez Pizzaro, Claudio Galeno Ibaceta, and Marcelo Lufin (History/Economics/Architecture, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile) “Antofagasta, a city in the Atacama desert: Immigration, globalization, and nitrate industry, 1880-1930”


3-3.30pm: Coffee


3.30-5pm: Keynote Lecture followed by questions:

Lynn Hollen Lees (History, University of Pennsylvania) “”The Ubiquity of the Cosmopolitan City: Urban Identities in Non-nationalist Worlds”


DRINKS


7.00pm Dinner for Participants


May 27th

Session 1: 9.45-11.15am

Making and Managing Multi-Ethnic Populations, Chair: Susanne Lachenicht (Uni. Bayreuth)

Margaret Hunt (History, Uppsala) & Phil Stern (History, Duke University), “Ethnicity, Crisis, and Empire: Making English Bombay in the late 17th Century”

Pedro Luengo (History, Seville), “An Introductory approach to Chinese quarters in 18th century Southeast Asia”

Randy Sparks (History, Tulane U.), “The Peopling of an African Slave Port: Annamaboe and the Atlantic World”


Coffee: 11.15-11.45


Session 2: 11.45-1.15pm

Migration and the City, Chair: Matthew Davis (IHR, Centre for Metropolitan History)

Subhadeep Kumar (History, Hyderabad), “Controlling populations and Contagion, Producing the Colonial City; Indian Labourers in the exclosures of British Empire”

Steve Pieragastini (History, Brandeis U.), “Shanghai at the center: Migration and the Asian metropolis”

Michael Ferguson, (Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS) “Izmir as a city of displacement, 1850-2015”


Lunch: 1.15-2.00


2pm-3.45pm: Summing Up and Concluding Discussions

Trevor Burnard (History, University of Melbourne)

Peter Taylor (Geography, Northumbria University)


4pm: Public Lecture

Jennifer Robinson (Geography, UCL) “Post-democracy meets post-colony: London as a theory destination”


Reception

'Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined', en la Royal Academy of Arts, Londres

© Domus.

Vía Royal Academy of Arts.

Seven architectural practices from six countries and four continents. 23,000 square feet. 72 days. One monumental exhibition.

Some of the most creative architectural minds from around the world have come to the RA to give you a new perspective on architecture and transform our Main Galleries with a series of large scale installations.

As you respond to different structures, textures, lighting, scents and colours, we invite you to consider some of the big questions about the nature of architecture; how do spaces make us feel? What does architecture do for our lives?

You are as much a part of this exhibition as the work itself – invited to touch, climb, walk, talk, sit, contemplate - reimagine the world around you.

Ver noticia en The Telegraph: Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined, Royal Academy, review.

Ver noticia en Domus: Sensing Spaces: Keré, Grafton, Kuma and Pezo von Ellrichhausen completed the first installations commissioned for the exhibition “Sensing Spaces” which, in a few days, will transform the London Royal Academy of Arts.

Ver noticia en castellano en El Mundo: Escala 1:1, 'Sensing spaces' es una exposición sobre arquitectura en vivo y directo.

© Domus.

Vía TimeOut.

This experimental show proves there’s more to architecture than blueprints, detailed models and an abundance of health-and-safety red tape. Kate Goodwin, the Royal Academy’s architecture curator has invited seven contemporary architectural firms from across the globe to transform not just the RA’s galleries but also our perception of space. We often allow our daily existence to drown out what’s actually going on around us, letting the monotony of habitual practice blinker the potential for unexpected experience in our built environment.

Luckily there’ll be no chance of ignoring your surroundings in this exhibition as the architects Goodwin has chosen all dazzle the senses with their immersive site-specific installations.
The Chilean-based husband-and-wife duo behind Pezo von Ellrichshausen will transport you back to your childhood with their gigantic wooden installation. Part playground, part monument, ‘Blue Pavilion’ is a curious structure. Hidden within its four columns are spiral staircases that lead you up to a viewing platform for a rare perspective of the nineteenth-century interior. Here you get up close and personal with the gallery’s cornice decorated with gilded angels before travelling back down to ground level via a ramp.

From behind the curtains where Kengo Kuma’s work waits to amaze you, comes a faint inviting aroma. As you venture into the darkened space, you’re struck by a warm woody essence and wispy forms. Here your nose and eyes must do the work of your hands, as you navigate your way around warped bamboo to another room, where you’ll encounter a new fragrance. Inspired by the traditional Japanese ceremony kodo, Kuma’s nasal contest gives a whole new meaning to potpourri, with its sweet smell of unexpected revelation.

The West African architect Francis Kéré likes to work with materials typical to the area he builds in. For his double-ended pavilion that links two grand galleries, he’s used a honeycomb plastic that’s an integral part of London construction. Under the domes you can take stock of the show in the seating area and even get involved, like any good worker bee, by inserting coloured straws into the holes of this synthetic sanctuary.

Using a wealth of materials, the main galleries are altered by these architectural interventions that ooze dynamism and provide an alternative approach to typical customs. Hopefully the experience will stimulate your senses to realise there’s always more to corridors, lighting and the incomprehensible entity of space.

Freire Barnes

Check out our guide to Sensing Spaces here

Architects featured: Grafton Architects, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Kengo Kuma, Li Xiaodong, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Alvaro Siza.

Chemical Brothers: 'Velodrome' - London 2012

Chemical Brothers 'Velodrome' - London 2012 from Crystal CG on Vimeo.

Crystal has created a three minute animated sequence for the song’s promotional video to match its heart-pounding rhythms. Played in the Velodrome before every session the video shows the Velodrome as never before, literally pulsating with excitement.

“We’ve created sweeping contours and sleek surfaces as the backdrop for an intense, futuristic cycling ‘duel’ as two animated riders power round the track,” said Darren Groucutt, creative director at Crystal. “It truly brings the Velodrome to life.”

James O’Brien, LOCOG Head of Sports Presentation, said: ‘Inspiring people to engage with sport has always been central to our vision and we want to ensure the way we present sport adds to the experience of the spectators in the venues and builds the atmosphere. This will be a special summer and we are grateful to everyone who has given their time and expertise over the past years.’