Event type:

In person

Date & time:

27 Feb 2020, 17:00 – 18:30

Urban Salon: Glissant and Black Urbanism

How Edouard Glissant’s work can create new visions for rethinking urbanism from the global South.

Glissant and Black Urbanism
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Urban Salon: Glissant and Black Urbanism

Garth A. Myers

Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies

Trinity College Hartford CT USA

Garth Myers earned a Ph.D. in Geography (1993) from UCLA with an allied field in Urban Planning. Myers has an M.A. (UCLA, 1986) in African Area Studies, with Geography and Urban Planning as the major and minor fields, and a BA with Honors in History from Bowdoin College, with concentrations in African and African-American History. He has taught at the University of Kansas, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Miami University (Ohio), California State University at Dominguez Hills, and UCLA. Myers is comfortable with large lecture classes and small seminars. His teaching philosophy rests on a belief in student engagement; the best learning takes place in engaged classrooms, where the professor facilitates student discussion and debate. Myers has conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, Finland, and the UK over the past 20 years, and he regularly uses his research to inform his teaching.

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Organiser

Hyun Shin

H.B.Shin@lse.ac.uk