Annual Lecture

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 11th GaWC ANNUAL LECTURE

GaWC Annual Lecture 2009: World Cities and Airline Networks
Michael Timberlake (Department of Sociology, The University of Utah)
29 April 2009, 11:00

PAST LECTURES

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

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

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

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

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

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 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)