Events
We are organising a series of events including workshops, seminars and conferences to gather thoughts, inspire research and disseminate outputs.
Conference
10/11/2022-11/11/2022 RSA winter conference
Special session: Metropolitan governance in a post-pandemic era
Speakers: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang, Dr. Weikai Wang, Dr. Ying Wang, Zhenfa Li, Yi Feng, Kan Zhu
Seminar events
17/03/2023
Speaker: Prof. Chun Yang
03/03/2023
The Party-Statecraft of China’s Regional Governance and the Emerging Greater Bay Area
Speaker: Prof. Jun Zhang
10/02/2023
Speaker: Dr. Yuqi Liu
03/02/2023
Speaker: Dr. Thierry Theurillat
27/01/2023
Urbanization and Governance After Suburbia
Speakers: Prof. Roger Keil, Prof. Nicholas Phelps, Prof. Christian Schmid, Prof. Jennifer Robinson, Dr. Robin Bloch, Prof. Fulong Wu
08/12/2022
The Making of “New citizens”: Landless Farmers and Urban Governance in China
Speaker: Prof. Beibei Tang
09/03/2022
Speaker: Dr. Giulia C. Romano
Discussant: Prof. Claire Colomb
09/02/2022
From Eco to Smart: The Local Variegation and Spatial Circulation of Sustainable Urbanism Models
Speaker: Dr. I-Chun Catherine Chang
19/01/2022
Speaker: Prof. Yvonne Rydin
08/12/2021
Governing Chinese Neighbourhoods: Models and Beyond
Speakers: Dr. Rong Cai, Dr. Ying Wang, Dr. Tingting Lu
Discussant: Prof. Shenjing He
14/10/2021
Urban Regeneration in China: What Model Now?
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu; Prof. Lin Ye; Dr. Yang Yu; Dr. Bin Li; Manqi Wang
Invited talks
02/11/2022
Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban revolution and governance changes
At the Global Cities Forum (organised by Shanghai government, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UN-Habitat and The World Bank)
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
18/06/2022
The role of the state in China’s urban redevelopment
At the International Conference on Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Invited by Remin University
Speaker: Prof. Fulong Wu
05/12/2021
Performing the Ecological Fix under State Entrepreneurialism in China
Invited by University at Albany, State University of New York
Speaker: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang
27/10/2021
The financialisation of Chinese Cities & the Real Estate Industry
Invited by Institute of Chinese Studies Delhi
Speakers: Prof. Fulong Wu; Prof. Tao Wang; Dr. Yue Zhang
12/03/2021
Rethinking the City and Innovation: A political economic view from China’s biotech
Invited by the University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Fangzhu Zhang
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