The Global City: Past and Present

This event is running from 14 May 2015 until 15 May 2015

Dr Beatriz Garcia, ICC Head of Research, has been invited to speak at the first workshop to be organised as part of The Global City: Past and Present, a new AHRC research network facilitated by the University of St. Andrews. The network has been created to foster a better understanding of the early modern imperial city and its place in the long history of globalization. The first workshop will focus on the issue of ‘Space’ in the early modern colonial city and its modern descendants.  At the intersection of empires, cultures, and economies, urban spaces and structures were, and continue to be, shaped by the cities’ global connections. Through an exploration of all aspects of the urban built environment, the workshop will start a conversation between scholars working on the spatial characteristics of those cities that first rose to prominence in the early modern imperial world. In her paper, Dr. Garcia will reflect on the varied representations and interpretations of Liverpool as a historical world city, as a marginalised city in the latter part of the 20th century, and as a city undergoing an international image renaissance since 2008.

Relevant reading

Garcia, B. (2015) Urban Storytelling: Remembering, Narrating and Re-Connecting Space in Liverpool (Abstract)