Lecture:

“Re-Placed: Building New Kinds of Space for the Twenty First Century”

by
Professor Nigel Thrift

       Vice Chancellor, Warwick University

Date:	27th April 2007, 6-8pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre 32, Faculty of Science, NUS

• Organized by Royal Geographical Society /NUS Department of Geography Lecture
• Co-sponsored by the Science Technology & Society Cluster

About the Speaker:
Professor Nigel Thrift became the University of Warwick's fifth Vice-Chancellor in July 2006, joining Warwick from the University of Oxford where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research. Professor Thrift was born in Bath, educated at Aberystwyth and Bristol and is an international research figure in the field of geography. During his academic career Professor Thrift has been the recipient of a number of distinguished academic awards including the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to geographic research in 2003. Professor Thrift is an Academician of the academy of Learned Societies for Social Sciences, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. He is listed as one of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) High Cited Researchers in the category of Social Sciences, General. His current research interests span a number of subjects. Continuing his interest in finance, he is working especially on the use of space and time by financial markets. His other longstanding interest - in the history of time - is also continuing. He is author or editor of over a dozen of books and hundreds of articles in internationally-refereed journals. He is also the Managing Editor of Environment and Planning A and sits on the editorial boards of many other top journals in geography and the social sciences.