Conferences, seminars and symposia organised by GCRO

GCRO will partner with other academic departments and centres to run academic dialogues of various kinds.

Selected conferences, seminars and symposia:

• GCRO worked with Alan Mabin to host a small discussion between interested academics and visiting senior World Bank Institute economist, Shahid Yusuf, on 11 November 2009
• GCRO assisted Alan Mabin to define, advertise and convene a seminar, ‘Think Metropole’, on 22 October 2009, as part of the Wits School of Architecture & Planning’s Beyond Modernism festival. The seminar considered the recent Grand Paris project of visualising alternative futures for the Paris region, as well as hearing inputs on the GCR.