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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor Patrick Le Gales has had to cancel his trip to South Africa unexpectedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">His colleague Professor Tommaso Vitale will be giving the lecture on behalf of Professor Le Gales’ team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please join us for the Conference of Professor Tommaso Vitale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Policy instruments and the governance of large metropolis</b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This conference is hosted in collaboration with CUBES,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SARChI and GCRO</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US">PROFESSOR TOMMASO VITALE - ‘Cities are back in Town’, Sciences Po, PariS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">16 FEBRUARY 2017</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tommaso Vitale is an Associate Professor in Sociology in Sciences Po (Paris), research director of the Master ‘Governing the
Large Metropolis’ in the School of Urban Studies at Sciences Po. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He is part of the research team ‘Cities are Back in Town’ around Professor Patrick Le Gales, and his research deals with urban
change and conflict, civil society mobilisation, spatial segregation, social services delivery, the local governance of industrial restructuring.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He has also worked on the place of migrant and “Rom” communities in European cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RSVP: </b><a href="mailto:Thammy.Jezile@wits.ac.za">Thammy.Jezile@wits.ac.za</a> & CC:
<a href="mailto:Busi.Nkosi@wits.ac.za">Busi.Nkosi@wits.ac.za</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We apologise for the change, and hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">CUBES & School of Architecture and Planning, Wits University,</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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