Diskussion, Book Launch, Lectures

The City, Religion and Postcolonialism I

with Jennifer Robinson, Birgit Meyer, Stephan Lanz, Kathrin Wildner, Jochen Becker, Katrin Klingan

Fri, Nov 15, 2013
5.30 pm
Two Day Ticket 12€/10€, Day Ticket 8€/6€, Single Ticket 5€/3€

How can the world’s metropolises and their religious practices be set in relation to one another? Talks and presentations will show how postcolonially-inspired approaches can be taken to overcome blind spots in conventional urban theory.


Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City

A Discussion on GLOBAL PRAYERS with Birgit Meyer (anthropologist, Utrecht) and the project team: Stephan Lanz (urban researcher, Berlin), Kathrin Wildner (urban ethnologist, Berlin), Jochen Becker (curator, Berlin), Katrin Klingan (curator, Berlin); including Book Presentation


Theorizing Cities Now: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban Studies

Keynote by Jennifer Robinson (urban researcher, London)