Rethinking Global Cities

Nasser Rabbat and Burak Erdim sit down to discuss architecture and the global city. Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erdim is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Design Department at the North Carolina State University. This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkinggloba... Watch Professor Rabbat's Rethinking Global Cities working group presentation here: https://youtu.be/pipguXhfafo

Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke University project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/

Professor Cemal Kafadar is a Professor of Turkish Studies at Harvard University. Kafadar presented at the Focus on Istanbul Working Group as part of the "Rethinking Global Cities project" This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke University project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/

The Chairs of the Rethinking Global Cities Conference reflect of the conference. Participants in this roundtable include: miriam cooke, Duke University Middle East Studies Center Miguel Sotelo, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Center Gennifer Weisenfeld, Arts, Art History and Visual Studies Nancy Armstrong, English Department Ara Wilson, Women't Studies & Cultural Anthropology This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/

Session V: INFRASTRUCTURE (Chair: Ara Wilson, Duke) Yan Song (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Burak Erdim (North Carolina State University) Brenda Chalfin (University of Florida)

Sumathi Ramaswamy sits down with Ranjani Mazumdar to discuss film as an artifact and archive of city. Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Ramaswamy is a Professor of History at Duke University. This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/

miriam cooke and Nezar AlSayyad sit down to discuss cities and traditional environments. AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture and Planning, at the University of California at Berkeley. cooke is a Professor in the Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke University. This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/ Watch Nezar AlSayyad's keynote lecture, "Virtual Uprisings: Tahrir Square" from the Rethinking Global Cities Conference: http://youtu.be/VKrVHrNsEmU

The Rethinking Global Cities Conference Keynote: Nezar AlSayyad, Professor of Architecture, Design, Urban Planning & Urban History, UC Berkeley “Virtual Uprisings: Tahrir Square”

Professor Malachi Hacohen sits down with Wolfgang Maderthaner and Andreas Weigl to discuss Vienna as a global city throughout time. Wolfgang Maderthaner is the director of the Austrian State Archives. Andreas Weigl is a Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. This conversation was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/

Professors Sibel Bozdoğan and Erdağ Göknar sit down to talk about Istanbul's shifting urban landscape. Bozdoğan is a Lecturer in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Kadir Has University. Göknar is an Associate Professor of Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and the co-director of the Duke Rethinking Global Cities project. The Rethinking Global Cities project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age".

In this Rethinking Global Cities event, Sibel Bozdogan outlines the shifting landscape of Istanbul over time as designed by political leaders. Sibel Bozdogan is a Lecturer in History of Architecture and Urbanism at Harvard University, and Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture, at Kadir Has University. Bozdogan's interests span cross-cultural histories of modern architecture and urbanism in Europe, America, Mediterranean and the Middle East with a specialization on Turkey. This events collaborators include Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies , Center for European Studies, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International Studies, and John Hope Franklin Center. The Rethinking Global Cities project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age".

Duke University Professors Erdağ Göknar and Anne-Maria Makhulu discuss security and policing in South African cities. Their conversation takes place in context of the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". Professor Göknar is Associate Professor of Turkish & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. Professor Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University.

Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld sits down with Terril Jones to talk about his experiences in Beijing. Jones is a longtime foreign and business correspondent who has lived and traveled through Asia since the 1970s. Jones was in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Student Protest and his photography adds a different perspective to the protest. Weisenfeld is a Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Her con conversation with Jones was made possible by the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/

Professors Ralph Litzinger and Fabio Lanza discuss and compare Chinese student protests over that last hundred years. Professor Litzinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Professor Lanza is Associate Professor of modern Chinese history in the Departments of History and East Asian Studies of the University of Arizona. This conversation takes place in context of the Rethinking Global Cities project, a Duke project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age". For more information on this project: http://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/