Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - Migration Cluster

News & Events

5-6 september

Workshop on Friendship in the Convivial City, co-organized with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany and Asian Urbanisms Cluster, ARI

6 August

Conversations Over Walls: Friendship and Aspiration Amongst Low Wage Migrants in Singapore and Dubai by Dr Laavy Kathiravelu

22-23 July

Workshop on Geographies of Aspiration: Urban Places, Constitutive Connections and Methodological Innovations, co-organized with cities@manchester, University of Manchester, UK and Asian Urbanisms Cluster, ARI

1-2 July

Workshop on Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City, co-organized by Urban Knowledge Network Asia, NL

9 may

Narratives of Scale: Desire and Memory in Karachi's Urban Space by Ms Naiza Khan

23 april

The changing practice of recreational running in cities: questioning how exercise comes to happen in particular urban environments by Dr Russell Hitchings

7 February

Dr Jayeeta Sharma: Empire Food to Post-Colonial City: Circulating Foodscapes in London, Toronto, and Singapore

5-6 February

"Hacking the City" and "The Future of Things" by Dr Chris Speed

22 january

Seminar entitled 'Singapore: a Rapidly Rising World City in East Asia Specialization Network', by A/P Ma Lili

Research Clusters Spring Newsletter 2012

5-6 December

"The housing problem and rise of the social housing movement in Taiwan" by A/P Huang Liling at FASS (6th) and "Regenerating the inner city through socially inclusive planning in Wanhwa, Taipei" at ARI (5th)

19 OCTOber 2012

Workshop on Visualizing the City, by the Future Cities Lab

2 OCTOber 2012

Seminar entitled "Labour and the Social Production of Urban Built Spaces in Delhi" by Dr T.G. Suresh

Research Clusters Fall Newsletter 2012

5 september 2012

Research Collaboration Discussion with Prof Richard T Legates

2 july 2012

'How Much Can You Prepare for a Disaster?: Lessons from Fukushima' Talk by Susumu Tanaka, NEC’s Chief
Manager

9 april-15 september 2012

Call for Papers: "Sustainable Cities", Annual Conference for the Consortium of African and Asian Studies (CAAS), 28-30 January 2013, NUS

3 april 2012

Seminar entitled "After the 1997 Financial Crisis: The Behavior and Implications of a New Cohort of Street Vendors"by Dr Chuthatip Maneepong

23 march 2012

Talk by Ms Annie Koo, Fulbright Fellow, on 'Comparing the Singaporean and American Dreams: Cultural Constructs of Housing'

29 february 2012

Seminar on 'Development of the Arts Institution in Singapore as a Global Creative City' by Dr Kenichi Kawasaki

About Us

Urbanization in the Asia-Pacific region is proceeding at a phenomenal rate. Cities are centres for the emergence of new industries, cultural practices and social phenomena.  The Cities Research Cluster aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences with shared interests in cities and urban transformation. The Cluster is particularly interested in examining the experience of cities in the Asia-Pacific region in an era of globalization, giving attention to associated trans-border flows and connections of various kinds. Approaching the city either as a unit of analysis in its own right or as a site for investigating specific urban issues, the Cluster seeks to produce new knowledge and analyses of the region’s urban diversity. In an era of globalization, even the seemingly most micro-scale urban study can speak to wider socio-cultural, political and economic processes such as flows, influences, competitions, conflicts, movements and forms of political participation.