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SUMMARY:Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler
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DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to join the School of Environment\, Ed
 ucation and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural le
 ctures from Will Fletcher\, Professor of Physical Geography\, and Seth S
 chindler\, Professor of Urban Politics & Development\, at the Cordingley
  Theatre\, Humanities Bridgeford Street.\n\nJoin us from 3.30pm for drin
 ks and networking. The event will start from 4.15pm\, with time for ques
 tions after each of the lectures.\n\nThis event is in-person only.\n\nAb
 out the lectures:\n\nPast environmental changes in the Mediterranean and
  North Africa - Professor Will Fletcher\nMediterranean landscapes are bo
 th vulnerable to climate change and strongly impacted by human activity.
  Drawing on a personal perspective of nearly 30 years researching the Me
 diterranean landscape\, with case studies from the Middle Pleistocene to
  recent centuries\, I will discuss the special contribution of palynolog
 y (pollen analysis) to revealing the nature and timing of past environme
 ntal changes. Far from esoteric\, such knowledge of past changes is esse
 ntial for constraining future climate change impacts and promoting natur
 e conservation.\n\nGeostrategic globalization and the future of cities -
  Professor Seth Schindler\nThe end of the Cold War ushered in an era of 
 unprecedented economic integration. Neoliberal globalization was inscrib
 ed in cities\, and urban scholars documented diverse varieties of neolib
 eral urbanism around the world. In recent years\, geopolitics has come r
 oaring back. States have reasserted themselves as economic actors\, and 
 industrial policy is increasingly bound up with geostrategic competition
 . This emergent era—what I call geostrategic globalization—is beginning 
 to reshape cities and urbanization. I trace these shifts through the evo
 lution of my research over the past two decades\, from Durban and Delhi 
 to Dar es Salaam and Detroit. I argue that urbanization itself is becomi
 ng a geopolitical process\, as powerful states compete to control the tr
 ansnational networks that underpin twenty-first-century globalization. I
  conclude by reflecting on what this implies for the future of cities.\n
 \nAbout the speakers:\n\nWill Fletcher is a palaeoecologist who research
 es past climate changes and the history of human-environment interaction
 s\, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean and North Africa. He co
 mpleted his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2006 and held postdoct
 oral research positions at the University of Bordeaux and Goethe Univers
 ity Frankfurt before joining the University of Manchester in 2010.\n\nSe
 th Schindler trained as a human geographer and his research focuses on u
 rban politics\, globalization\, and development. He is the co-founder of
  the Second Cold War Observatory and Deputy Director of the Manchester U
 rban Institute.\n\nAccessibility information:\n\nThe Cordingley Theatre 
 is located on the ground floor of the Humanities Bridgeford Street build
 ing\, and can be accessed via stairs and a ramp which is 150cm wide with
  handrails on both sides. You can find out more accessibility informatio
 n as well as view pictures of the lecture theatre and the building on Ac
 cessAble.\n\nLocation:\nCordingley Lecture Theatre\, Humanities Bridgefo
 rd Street\, University of Manchester M15 6AD
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LOCATION:Cordingley Theatre\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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