The City Centre: Researching city lives and connections

The City Centre logo

Launch Day: 7 December 2006

For further information, please contact Professor Jane Wills

3-3.45pm
The Pinter Studio, Queen Mary, Mile End Campus
a performance by Geography undergraduate students directed by London Bubble

City Centre launch poster

4-5.30pm
Room 125 in the Geography Department, Mile End Campus
Round table: Politics, culture and performance in the city
Chair and opening statement: David Pinder (Queen Mary)

  • Karen Tomlin, London Bubble
  • Bobby Baker, artist and creative fellow, Queen Mary
  • Angharad Wynne-Jones, LIFT
  • James Marriott, Co-Director of PLATFORM and AHRC Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College

5.30–6.15pm
Formal opening of The City Centre, ribbon cutting by Professor Philip Ogden (Queen Mary)
Refreshments and displays of student research projects in The City Centre

6.15–8pm
Small/Clinical lecture theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus
Round table: Politics, justice and civil society in the contemporary city
Chair and opening statement: Professor Jane Wills (Queen Mary)

  • Professor Doreen Massey (Open University)
  • Madeleine Bunting (Demos)
  • Monsignor John Armitage (Diocese of Brentwood and London Citizens)
  • Dr Dilwar Hussain (Islamic Foundation, Leceister)
  • Mr Asad Rehman (Chair, Newham Monitoring Project)
  • Professor Yves Cabannes (University College London)

8pm onwards
Refreshments outside the small/clinical lecture theatre