BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news5154@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260415T125957 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260420T130000 SUMMARY:Seminar: "Urbanities and global circuits: place and place-making in the world" DESCRIPTION:Vibrant urban centres in the region have long and changing hist ories of interconnectedness\, innovation\, hybridity\, and place-making. T he solutions to global concerns are being rethought at the city-scale\, th rough smart technology\, green cities\, and new concepts of development or progress. The urbanities that emerge from everyday lives in cities like D ar es Salaam\, Addis Ababa\, or Nairobi articulate diverse identities\, im aginaries\, negotiations of living-in-the-world through time and space. A region home to many of the future megapolises of the world\, Eastern Afric an cities are thus places in and of our world-in-the-making. This seminar will think beyond development as a linear concept of progress to analyse h ybridity\, heterogeneity\, and incompleteness. Analyses on global projects will be rescaled and the panelists will explore constellation of travelli ng ideas that the region’s cities attract\, invite\, create\, and approp riate.  They will seek to recast the actors of urban life\, explore youth as protagonists of city-making\, and simultaneously recast the many confi gurations of Eastern African urbanity as global protagonists in reimaginin g and remaking our world.\\r\\nThis event is part of the BIEA’s “Easte rn Africa in the World” seminar series. It invites scholars to think abo ut Eastern Africa\, broadly defined\, as a distinctive yet plurally consti tuted area-in-the-world. A region too frequently essentialized or fragment ed in outsiders’ contradictory and entwined narratives\, Eastern Africa lurches between being synonymous with historical absence\, calamity and fa ilure\, and redemptive visions of a techno-optimist “Silicon Savannah” and ever “emerging” promise. Too often\, the region’s remarkability is penned reductively from perspectives elsewhere. Yet in its histories\, imaginaries\, agencies\, and connectedness Eastern Africa is a region tha t has as often written the elsewheres of the world as been shaped by them. This series is an intellectual space to think the world from Eastern Afri ca\, and center the scholarly significance of Eastern Africa as world-maki ng through time and across multiple domains. X-ALT-DESC:

Vibrant urban centres in the region have long and changing hi stories of interconnectedness\, innovation\, hybridity\, and place-making. The solutions to global concerns are being rethought at the city-scale\, through smart technology\, green cities\, and new concepts of development or progress. The urbanities that emerge from everyday lives in cities like Dar es Salaam\, Addis Ababa\, or Nairobi articulate diverse identities\, imaginaries\, negotiations of living-in-the-world through time and space. A region home to many of the future megapolises of the world\, Eastern Afr ican cities are thus places in and of our world-in-the-making. This semina r will think beyond development as a linear concept of progress to analyse hybridity\, heterogeneity\, and incompleteness. Analyses on global projec ts will be rescaled and the panelists will explore constellation of travel ling ideas that the region’s cities attract\, invite\, create\, and appr opriate. \; They will seek to recast the actors of urban life\, explor e youth as protagonists of city-making\, and simultaneously recast the man y configurations of Eastern African urbanity as global protagonists in rei magining and remaking our world.

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This event is part of the BIEA’ s “Eastern Africa in the World” seminar series. It invites scholars to think about Eastern Africa\, broadly defined\, as a distinctive yet plura lly constituted area-in-the-world. A region too frequently essentialized o r fragmented in outsiders’ contradictory and entwined narratives\, Easte rn Africa lurches between being synonymous with historical absence\, calam ity and failure\, and redemptive visions of a techno-optimist “Silicon S avannah” and ever “emerging” promise. Too often\, the region’s rem arkability is penned reductively from perspectives elsewhere. Yet in its h istories\, imaginaries\, agencies\, and connectedness Eastern Africa is a region that has as often written the elsewheres of the world as been shape d by them. This series is an intellectual space to think the world from Ea stern Africa\, and center the scholarly significance of Eastern Africa as world-making through time and across multiple domains.

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