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Sustainable Futures: Survival of the City

The University of Warwick celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015. As part of the celebrations, our Global Research Priorities programme has developed an exciting programme of research-led events to support and develop existing and new research collaborations.We would be delighted if you could join us at our Venice event being held Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th October 2015 at Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava. This event is being led by the Connecting Cultures GRP in collaboration with the International Development GRP.

Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture – Sir David King

Professor Sir David King was appointed as the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change (full-time) in September 2013. Sir David was previously the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 – 2007, working with Prime Ministers Blair and Brown, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy Technologies Institute.

Programma

Friday 23 October 2015 Theme:Material and Cultural Economies

14.30-15.00 Travelling to work: the city as a site of depletion. Professor Shirin Rai

15.00-15.30 Peripheral Patna: Cultural Production in a Zone of Backwardness. Associate Professor Rashmi Varma

16.00-16.30 LiquidMemories: A Proposal on Remembering City Rivers through DigitalMedia. Associate Professor Joanne Garde-Hansen

16.30-17.00 Sustaining Venice in the Late Middle Ages. Associate Professor Louise Bourdua

17.30-18.30 Roundtable event

18.30-19.30 Networking event

Saturday 24 October 2015 Theme: Translation in the City

09.30-10.00 High Tide, High Time: Alfredo Jaar’s 2013 Biennale Installation Venezia, Venezia. Dr NicolasWhybrow

10.00-10.30 The Merchant in Venice, Shylock in the Ghetto Associate Professor Shaul Bassi.

11.00-11.30 Landscapes After The Battle, Life Stories on the Edge: Entanglements of Memory and crisis in Contemporary Spain Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes

11.30-12.00 Translating Cities. Professor Susan Bassnett

12.00-14.00 Keynote Lecture. Public Understanding of Risk. Professor Alex Quintanilla

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from Oct 23, 15 to Oct 24, 15
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Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
Calle Rachetta, Cannaregio 3764 - Venezia
Centro Storico
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