Nottingham Contemporary is pleased to present Saskia Sassen, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in a lecture that is based on a quarter of a century of research into the consequences of global capital. Sassen is one of the world’s leading authorities on the social consequences of globalisation. Her meticulous and far-reaching work has encompassed immigration, new networked technologies, the dynamics of global cities, the changes within the nation-state caused by the “transnational” economy and the feminisation of labour. It is characterised by the “unexpected and the counter-intuitive”, used as a way to cut through established “truths” that may not be what they seem. This event is organised in partnership with The University of Nottingham’s School of Geography