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The GaWC Annual Lecture is held every year in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University with a transcript of the lecture and discussion provided here. The Inaugural Lecture was given by Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago) in 1999.

THE 13th GaWC ANNUAL LECTURE

GaWC Annual Lecture 2011: Global Urban Hierarchies and Cultural Industries
Robert Kloosterman (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research)
14 December 2010, 1pm

Abstract: Why are some cities doing better in terms of cultural industries than some other cities? Size, as is often the case, matters. We, however, want to go beyond that and explore to what extent the position in the global urban hierarchy matters in determining the role and contribution of cultural industries in cities. We hypothesised that not just the current position in the global hierarchy is important, but - through path-dependent processes - also the position in the past. We focus on two groups of cities. The first group comprises those cities which now occupy a similar position in the global urban system. The second group of cities concerns those cities which at some point of their history have been the financial and economic centre of the (western) global urban system (Genoa, Amsterdam, London, and New York). According to our findings, the past indeed matters, but the present even more.

 


PAST LECTURES

GaWC Annual Lecture 2010: Global Cities and the Creative Economy
Andy C. Pratt (Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries Research, King's College London)
28 April 2010

GaWC Annual Lecture 2009: World Cities and Airline Networks
Michael Timberlake (Department of Sociology, The University of Utah)
29 April 2009

GaWC Annual Lecture 2008: The Study of Cities: Historical and Structural Approaches (power point presentation)
Piet Saey (Department of Geography, Ghent University)
14 January 2008 (with 2nd GaWC Student Workshop: Globalization, World Cities and History)

GaWC Annual Lecture 2007: China's Urban Revolution: Globalization and Urban Development in Transitional Markets (presentation)
Fulong Wu (Urban China Research Centre, Cardiff University)
15 January 2007 (with 1st GaWC Student Workshop: Globalization, World Cities and China)

GaWC Annual Lecture 2006: Power and World Cities
John Allen (Open University)
10 January 2006

GaWC Annual Lecture 2005: London: Europe's New York (power point presentation; pdf)
Alan Freeman (Greater London Authority)
10 January 2005

GaWC Annual Lecture 2004: World Cities, Mega-Cities and Global Mega-City-Regions (power point presentation)
Sir Peter Hall (Institute of Community Studies / The Bartlett, UCL)
5 January 2004

GaWC Annual Lecture 2003: The Globalization of Law (power point presentation) (summary)
Peter Charlton (Senior Partner, Clifford Chance)
13 January 2003

GaWC Annual Lecture 2002: Cities and Globalization
John Rennie Short (Department of Geography, Syracuse University)
14 January 2002

GaWC Annual Lecture 2001: Splintering Urbanism: Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
Stephen Graham (Centre for Urban Technology, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
14 May 2001

GaWC Annual Lecture 2000: Global Cities and Developmental States: Understanding Singapore's Global Reach
Henry Wai-chung Yeung (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)
7 March 2000

GaWC Annual Lecture 1999: The Spatiality and Temporality of Globalization
Saskia Sassen (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago)
3 July 1999