The School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, invites you to attend the 2013 Rusty Bernstein Memorial Lecture.

Making Slum-Free Cities: Global Urbanism in the Asian Century

Delivered by Ananya Roy, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.

Date: 16 May 2013
Time: 17h30 for 18h00 to 20h30
Venue: Dorothy Susskind Auditorium, John Moffat Building, East Campus,
University of the Witwatersrand

Programme:

– 18h00: Welcome and opening
– Commemoration: ‘Drawing inspiration from Rusty Bernstein’ by Toni Strasburg, award winning documentary filmmaker and writer, author of Fractured Lives, and daughter of Rusty Bernstein
– ‘Making Slum-Free Cities: Global Urbanism in the Asian Century’ by Professor Ananya Roy
– Discussion
– Vote of thanks
– 20h00: Snacks and drinks in the John Moffat Foyer

Abstract for Professor Ananya Roy’s Talk:

The Asian Century can be understood as a historical conjuncture marked by new formations of economic hegemony and bold claims of Asian ascendancy. This talk examines how, at such a historical moment, the urban question becomes the matter of government, and how in particular, the megacity of slums is transformed into the Asian world-class city. Taking up the example of India’s recent Slum-Free Cities policy, which marks a break with hitherto dominant modes of governing, the talk interrogates emerging paradigms of inclusive growth, those that seek to integrate the poor into market rule and capitalize the entrepreneurial slum. In this way, the talk tackles the broader question of postcolonial government and its frontiers of development, as well as the politics of poverty thus unleashed.