Keynote - Professor Rosemary Wakeman

What does The DNA of Cities mean to global urban historians? Rosemary is Professor of History at Fordham University and she is the Director of the Urban Studies Programme. We were delighted to hear during this conversation about some of her recently published global comparisons from her book The Worlds of Victor Sassoon (The University of Chicago Press, 2024). Rosemary is also the President of the Global Urban History Project, which brings together scholars at all stages of their careers from around the world, with common interests in researching at the intersection of urban history and global history. 

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What are the Keynotes? These are the episodes where we zoom out from our city-to-city voyage to meet global expert voices from a range of different disciplinary vantage points (e.g. from history, to theology, to genetics, to archaeology, to design) to understand the place of cities in their work. We want to know how they would approach and investigate the relationship between cities and human experience and evolution. 

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