Understanding The Urban: Towards a Metaphilosophy by Andy Merrifield

Understanding The Urban: Towards a Metaphilosophy by Andy Merrifield

Date: Monday March 14th

Time: 10:15 – 11:30

Location: Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts Hus, Blindern campus.

About the speaker:

Andy Merrifield is a leading scholar in the field of critical urban studies, and currently a Supernumerary Fellow in Human Geography at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. He is a prolific author, and has written extensively urban theory, radical urban politics, and the 'right to the city.' His latest book is titled The New Urban Question (2014), and attempts to establish new coordinates for urban research and politics under the current conditions of planetary urbanization.

About the seminar series Cities & Society:

As a growing majority of the planet's population live in urban landscapes, cities are increasingly identified by a wider variety of actors as the primary strategic ground for resolving some of the most pressing environmental, political, and social challenges of the 21st century. In this context, there is an urgent need to reexamine some of the basic categories and concepts used to define and decipher urban processes, and to more broadly pose the questions of what characterizes the urban today and what approaches that can help us to successfully generate new urban theory and knowledge. By inviting international expertise working at the frontiers of urban research, this seminar series seeks address these questions and support the development of a dynamic and robust research environment around contemporary urban issues at the University of Oslo.

For more information on the seminar series, please the website:http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/networks/cities-and-society/ <http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/networks/cities-and-society/>

The seminar series is hosted by the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo.

The Cities & Society organizers