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FALL 2001
SPACES AND CULTURES OF GLOBALIZATION
This year's BCGIT colloquium will explore globalization and information technology in the context of global cities and built environments. Speakers will consider how the production of urban and architectural space shapes, and is spaced by, the complex array of social, economic and political processes associated with globalization. The colloquium will examine issues ranging from the relationship between digital technology, globalization and urban space, to identity and citizenship in the transnational city. In addition to regular lunch-hour meetings in the Harris Room, a special session in the Spring term featuring Anthony D. King and Mike Crang will investigate significant critical and theoretical debates surrounding research on global cities, and discuss future directions.
October 11, 2001
Harris Room 119 Moses Hall, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Why High-Tech is in the Suburbs: Cold War Policy Choices and their Urban Legacy
Margaret O'Mara
Ph.D Candidate
Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania
Margaret Pugh O'Mara is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as a policy analyst in the Clinton. White House and at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she was involved in a number of urban and social policy initiatives including the Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities program and welfare reform. She is the author of several reports on metropolitan growth published by the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy.
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October 25, 2001
Harris Room 119 Moses Hall, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Information Architecture and the Geometry of Social Relations
Warren Sack
Assistant Professor, SIMS UC Berkeley
Warren Sack is a software designer, media theorist, and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, SIMS. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, Warren was a research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory and a research collaborator with the Interrogative Design Group of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology from Yale College and a S.M. and Ph.D. in the Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. His research focusses on the design and analysis of online public space and public discourse.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~sack/cm
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November 15, 2001
Harris Room 119 Moses Hall, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Transnational America: Identity, Citizenship and Diasporas in Late-Twentieth Century USA
Inderpal Grewal
Visiting Professor, Department of Women's Studies UC Berkeley Department Chair/Professor of
Women Studies SFSU
Inderpal Grewal is currently a Visiting Professor in the Women's Studies Department at UCBerkeley and Professor at SFState. In January she will be Director of Women's Studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke, 1996) and a number of essays on imperialism, gender, diasporas and globalization. She has written essays and edited a number of publications with her long-term collaborator, Caren Kaplan (UC Berkeley), most recently an issue of Signs on Gender and Globalization, and a undergraduate textbook Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
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