When criticalurban studies
meet Asian studies:
A dialogue
on new directionsof knowledge production
in globalizing Asia

International Workshop HybridInternational Workshop

Dialogue/session questions-What is 'critical' urban studies? / What is
critical Asian studies?
-What is the frontier and what are the key
challenges for Asian Studies in globalizing andurbanizing era-Questioning means of publishing andknowledge production in 21st century
Ex. Do publishing strategy and language
choices influence the way academic
knowledge accumulate and theory are built?
How local/international knowledge
production and publishing method interact?

July 1st (Sat) 13:00-15:00

When criturban stumeet Asstudie
A dialog

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,(Main Conference Room, 3rd Floor), University of Tokyo

https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/access/index.html

Format: Hybrid This event will be a hybrid event (in-person and an online).
Registration for participation: https://forms.gle/aCGk9DiUi9Uuhqnc8* This is a hybrid event, with an in-person (50 persons, on a first come, first served basis) and an online audience. Registration is required.

Time Schedule
13:00-13:05 Opening remark

Discussants

13:05-13:35 Critical urban studies, knowledge production and publishing:
Perspective from IJURR’ s editor
Professor Hyun Bang Shin

13:35-13:45 Discussant 1, Professor Masaaki Okamoto(Professor and Vice-director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
Kyoto University)

13:45-13:55 Discussant 2, Professor Shigeto Sonoda(Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)
13:55-15:00 Discussion

Speaker
Hyun Bang Shin

Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Directorof the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre,London School of Economics, Board and editor ofIJURR＊International Journal of Urban and RegionalResearch (https://www.ijurr.org/)
Organizer:

1. Masaaki Okamoto
Professor and Vice-director, Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, Kyoto University
2. Shigeto Sonoda
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,
University of Tokyo

Moderator

Tamaki Endo

Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Saitama University

Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Director of the Saw Swee
Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prof
Shin’ s research centres on the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of urbanisation
with particular attention to Asian cities. His most recent projects include modelling flood risk andcommunity resilience in Thailand; the urban spectre of global China: mechanism, consequences,and alternatives for urban futures; and Asian capital and the rise of smart urbanism. Professor
Shin is also an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a trustee andtreasurer of the Urban Studies Foundation.

KAKEN Research Project “Informalizing Asia: Dynamics and dilemma of global mega cities” , (Grant-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principle Investigator, Professor Tamaki Endo (SaitamaUniversity) https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19H00553/

Co-organizer:
Global Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia、University of Tokyo (https://gas.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/), Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)