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SUMMARY:City Seminar - Raphael Susewind: Rifah-E Aam Club\, Lucknow: Polit
 ics and Poetics of Publicness - Raphael Susewind\, King's College London
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DTEND:20181009T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Rifah-E Aam Club\, Lucknow: Politics and Poetics of Publicnes
 s* \nRaphael Susewind\, King's College London\n\nPublic space comes under 
 threat\, is contested as much as shared\, an arena for power and hegemony\
 , leaving little hope for interaction across social divides. Yet while eac
 h reincarnation of our fragmented public sphere inscribes public space wit
 h distinct meaning\, each necessarily builds on historical precedent\, ina
 dvertently expanding the scope of the term’s original promise. Over time
 \, this creates iconic infrastructure such as the Rifah-e Aam Club\, the 
 “Club for the public good” in Lucknow. From the initial stirrings of a
 ssociational culture through key moments of the national movement down to 
 today’s goonda raj\, or rule of thugs\, this unruly space hosted the mos
 t unlikely republic of letters. Enter the Habermasian salon of European en
 lightenment transplanted unto contemporary north India\,  reuniting what s
 eems irredeemably fragmented and giving hope to urban futures.\n\nThe City
  Seminar\, co-convened by the Department of Geography along with the Depar
 tment of Architecture\, explores the theme of ‘Infrastructures of Memory
 ’ this year. A diverse line-up of speakers - including geographers\, ant
 hropologists\, architects\, artists and activists - will examine the vario
 us techniques\, technologies\, rituals\, performances and materialities of
  memory and remembrance\, and how they reinforce or subvert prevailing pow
 er relations. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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