CONNECTED HISTORIES, COSMOPOLITAN CITIES: TOWARD INTER-IMPERIAL AND TRANS-COLONIAL HISTORIES OF CITIES IN ASIA, 1800-1960

Connected Histories, Cosmopolitan Cities: Toward Inter-Imperial and Trans-Colonial Histories of Cities in Asia, 1800-1960

Venue: National Museum of Singapore

Date: 7 — 8 November 2019

Colonial cities did not exist in isolation, yet they are often studied in isolation.

Colonial cities were connected to the metropole and to other colonial cities within and beyond their own imperial networks. People, goods, capital and ideas circulated between cities, creating diverse connections and multifarious linkages. These transactions led to the cosmopolitan culture that prefigures the global cities we inhabit today. Over the past two decades, there has been growing interest in global architectural and urban histories. This conference will build on this shift by bringing colonial architectural and urban histories in Asia out of its current geographical compartmentalization.

This conference is free to attend, but online registration is required.

More information about the conference, including a full line-up of our distinguished speakers, can be found here: https://blog.nus.edu.sg/connectedhistories/.

This conference is organised by the National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture, and supported by the National Heritage Board.