Professor Richard Williams
Inaugural lecture of Professor Richard Williams, 25 January 2011.
Event details
Lecture title: "Globalization's Spectacular Ruins"
Date: 25 January 2011, 5.15pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower
Lecture abstract
We tend to think of globalization as a set of homogenizing processes, creating an ever more seamless world. But globalization makes its own ruins as much as it erases old ones, and some of them have become inadvertent tourist sights.
This lecture shows some spectacular examples of this strange, but overlooked process, asking: what is it about contemporary ruins that has such popular appeal? What do they tell us about globalization? How should we look at them? And what should we do about them, exactly?