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Very happy and honoured to be part of this Rearrangements Asia Collective! It is a lovely journey with regular meetings in 2021 - intellectually enlightened moments during the difficult pandemic time - and finally lead to this themed intervention at #TIBG

Please come and join me in this exciting webinar on 4-Apr (4 pm British Summer Time) to listen to Professors Helga Leiter and Eric Sheppard on speculative urbanism in Jakarta, Indonesia

Look forward very much to our three events in a row supported by the Urban Studies Foundation seminar series award, starting from a conference in Bandung in this September. Call for papers coming soon!

It’s out now! Please join us in this September and go back to Bandung for alternative urban futures, reflecting together on and through those overlooked cities in Asia! Urban Studies Foundation LSE Southeast Asia Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 AbdouMaliq Simone

The day 2 of LSE Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Forum sees a timely panel discussion on Urban Futures, engaging with the question of climate urbanism. Please join me and the four experts, including Helena Varkkey, Melinda Martinus, Laura Cipriani & Clinton M lse.ac.uk/seac/events/20…

It is so wonderful to put together these brilliant voices and views from our speakers and panelists, though a pity that I was not able to be there in person (in time)... Thank you so much Julie for taking care of the two sessions and making the discussion inclusive and inspiring!

Please join us for a symposium on the urban politics of infra-density at UZH on 14th of December 2023. With Yimin Zhao, Jon Schubert, @thatjulieren Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Colin McFarlane Gabriela Debrunner, Charlotte Lemanski and me. More info: geo.uzh.ch/en/units/soku/…

.@patnoxolo will give the CITY annual lecture at LSE on Thursday the 29th of Feb: "Spinning the Telescope: More-than-human conjunctures, Black lives and urban space." Adam Elliott-Cooper will be the discussant. It should be an amazing event! Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-annual-…

Great seeing this paper is out. Here we try to deal with scale and territory questions in an inter-topological way, which we hope can be helpful to capture the nuances of city-region making and state space restructuring both in and beyond China.

🏘️🇨🇳EVENT - @DrJaneHayward chairs an expert panel exploring different aspects of #China's urban question from its #realestate crisis to ghost cities to hukou reforms. 👉7pm, 17 Oct kcl.ac.uk/events/chinas-… 🍷 William Hurst Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 Yimin Zhao Olivia Cheung #ChinaWeek2024

On November 13th Yimin Zhao will speak to the theme of 'Language and the city: Thinking through Jiehebu', as part of the Social & Cultural Geography Research Group's Early Career Event Series. Yimin will present online (12-12.40 on the 13th), sign up here tinyurl.com/mr3twse5

Glad to be able to contribute to this panel discussion at KCL China Week. Recording now available to watch.

This is a great opportunity for hosting academic events of your interests, especially for scholars from/ working on the south. Please do consider to apply if you have got some ideas to work on. The deadline is in Feb 2025 so there is still time to develop & polish your proposal.

A great opportunity to work as a #postdoc on an exciting project on Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance (ASPIRA) led by @thatjulieren. Regional expertise in Hong Kong and/or Taiwan. Deadline: 20-Dec-2024. More details on this link: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen…

For urbanists, here is an exciting LSE Southeast Asia roundtable happening this week Thursday 12-1.15 pm UK time, Interrogating Asia’s Urban Futures, featuring Yimin Zhao (Durham University geography, UK), Diganta Das (NTU Singapore, SG), Rita Padawangi (SUSS, SG) Link: shorturl.at/zCNya

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Recently, I was surprised one of the journal special issues I co-edited, “The urbanising dynamics of global China” from Urban Geography (tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/43/…), was chosen for republication by T&F as a book as part of republication program. To be released early 2025. ToC 👇

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher for the project 'Globalisation from below: livelihoods, trade and transnationalism in Brazil’s informal economy'. More information and details on how to apply here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI125/pos…

The April 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 5) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring articles and reviews by Lina Naoroz Bråten, Yeonhwa Lee, Kristian Ruming, AJ Wray, PhD, Lebrument Norbert, Yimin Zhao, Jon Silver, Agustina Martire and many more buff.ly/hrZVfYl

2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 16/07/25. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou