Watch the salon conversation with Anuschka Kutz and Saskia Sassen on 08/05/2018
Saskia Sassen is invited for a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels on Tuesday May 8th, 2018.
The lecture ‘Who Owns The City?‘ is part of the Spring Lecture Series ‘Pressures on the urban field: Ageing, Migration, Injustice’, curated and moderated by Anuschka Kutz.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a Member of its Committee on Global Thought, which she chaired till 2015. She is a student of cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work. Born in the Netherlands, she grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, was raised in five languages, and began her professional life in the United States. She is the author of eight books and the editor or co-editor of three books. More info