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The Macau Winter School is the third such programme in Asian Studies run by IIAS. It will be co-organized this time with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau, and will take place in the historic Chinese port-city Macau from 16-20 December 2013. The Macau Winter School is meant to elicit and interrogate new theoretical paradigms of postcolonial urban hybridity that are informed by experiences emanating from various contexts in Asia and beyond. Participants will be required to assess critically their individual work through discussions led by co-conveners. They will also test their knowledge against the background of the urban setting of Macau where they will reside for the duration of the programme.The key themes related to postcolonial urban hybridity include but are not limited to:Rethinking notions of hybridity, métissage, creolization, etc., in urban contextsThe colonial / postcolonial city – cities before, during, and after EmpirePostcolonial and cryptocolonial nation-states and citiesPort-cities and maritime connectionsContests over land use and ownership (gentrification, eviction, "disneyfication," ethnic and spatial "cleansing") LocationUniversity of Macau. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Macau, P.R. ChinaDate16-20 December, 2013Submission deadlineMay 16, 2013Academic DirectorsProf. Engseng Ho (Duke University, USA)Prof. Akhil Gupta (University of California, USA)Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University, USA)ContactE-mail: Ms Martina van den Haak at M.C.van.den.Haak@iias.nlWeb sitehttp://www.iias.nl/masterclass/urban-hybridity-post-colonial-age