In the framework of the Erasmus mundus TEMA+ International Master’s program “Heritage anddevelopment”, Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham University, New York) will give three lectures on March 10, 13 and 16 at the Condorcet campus.
London, Shanghai, Bombay: 1920s-1930s
Friday, March 10, 2023
from 8:30 am to 10:30 am
EHESS building – room 25-B
Condorcet campus
Metropolitan Encounters: the World’s Fairs and Visions of the City
Monday March 13, 2023
from 8:30 am to 10:30 am
EHESS building – room 25-A
Condorcet Campus
Around the book : ” A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present ” (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2020)
Seminar by Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier (EHESS / Géographie-cités) and Nicolas Verdier (EHESS / Géographie-cités)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
from 2:30 to 4:30 pm
Condorcet Conference Center – room 3.07X
Rosemary Wakeman
Rosemary Wakeman is Professor of History at Fordham University. Her most recent publication is “A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present” (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2020). She is also the author of “Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement” (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and “The Heroic City: Paris 1945-1958” (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and has published widely on cities and urban history. She was a Fulbright Global Scholar in 2018-19 and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in 2018. Wakeman is co-editor of the Urban History journal published by Cambridge Press. She is on the Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives journal, the Built Heritage journal, and Fordham University Press. She is a member of the International Committee for the European Urban History Association as well as for the Global Urban History Project. She is currently working on a book project entitled “Global Crossroads: London, Shanghai, Bombay.”
