One week to go until the 2018 Summer Institute in Urban Studies

Participants and speakers from 17 different countries are gathering at the National University of Singapore for a welcome tea on Sunday 15 July at the start of the 2018 Summer Institute in Urban Studies.

Professor Tim Bunnell, the co-organiser of SIUS 2018 at National University of Singapore, has circulated the final schedule, which, in brief, is as follows:

Monday

• Welcome & Participant Introduction
• Plenary Session: Urban Studies from Elsewhere
• Panel Discussion: Urbanism’s Others
• Tour of Yale-NUS College Campus
• Panel Discussion: Designing Interdisciplinary Urban Studies Curricula
• Urban Studies Curriculum Workshop

Tuesday

• Plenary Session: Gender – Urban Theory & Urban Politics
• Panel Discussion: Precarity & Inequality
• Walking Tour of URA City Gallery & Chinatown

Wednesday

• Plenary Session: Urban Infrastructures
• Panel Discussion: Collaboration
• Workshop: Rethinking Writing: Writing for More-than-academic Audiences
• Evening Dinner

Thursday

• Panel Discussion: Job Talk
• Plenary Session: Sustainable Futures
• Panel Discussion: What kinds of Urban Studies for the 21st Century?

All in all, a very full week!

You can follow the activities on Twitter using the hashtag #SIUS2018.