{"id":66908,"date":"2006-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/leading-urban-studies-theorist-to-speak-at-uris-providence-campus\/"},"modified":"2006-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"leading-urban-studies-theorist-to-speak-at-uris-providence-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/03\/leading-urban-studies-theorist-to-speak-at-uris-providence-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading urban studies theorist to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; March 30, 2006 &#8212; David Harvey, one of the world\u2019s leading theorists in the field of urban studies, will speak about \u201cFreedom of the City\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Feinstein Providence Campus on Thursday, April 6.  Free and open to the public, the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Paff Auditorium, 80 Washington St. in Providence.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIn his talk, Harvey will explore key points in the history of neoliberalism, a political orientation that blends liberal political views while emphasizing economic growth.  His views on this topic and others have attracted considerable attention in the humanities and social sciences.  The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Urban Studies based at the University\u2019s Feinstein Providence Campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Harvey has received numerous awards for his work, including the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers and the 2002 Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his \u201coutstanding contribution to the field of geographical enquiry and to anthropology.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHis latest work, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, was published in 2005.  This book provides a multi-layered history of ideological neoliberalism\u2014a system that benefits few individuals at the expense of many. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHarvey has written several other books on the politics of globalization, urbanization and cultural changes, including The New Imperialism; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Social Justice and the City; Limits to Capital; The Condition of Postmodernity; and Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHarvey earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Buenos Aires, Roskilde in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, and Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFor more information please contact Cleveland Kurtz at 401-277-5039.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; March 30, 2006 &#8212; David Harvey, one of the world\u2019s leading theorists in the field of urban studies, will speak about \u201cFreedom of the City\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Feinstein Providence Campus on Thursday, April 6. Free and open to the public, the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}