On 23 June 2010 Transit-Labour participants Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson participated in a round table discussion with academics from Shanghai Unversity in the Venice Pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo. The theme of the event was: Mega-Cities Images at ExpoL Urban Planning, Environmental Protection, Migration. Below is the announcement for the meeting plus some images of the occasion.

Thanks to Giulia dal Maso for her organising efforts.

The Venice Pavilion and the Shanghai branch of the Italian School of Oriental and African Studies will conduct a roundtable on “Images of Mega Cities at Expo: Urban Planning, Environmental Protection, Culture and Migration” in the presence of:

Professor Mezzadra from Bologna University; Professors LENG Jia 冷嘉, LUO Xiaoming 罗小茗, ZHU Shanjie 朱善杰, NI Wei 倪伟, SUN Xiaozhong 孙晓忠 from Shanghai University; and Brett Neilson from the University of Western Sydney.

The main purpose of the conference is to discuss the city image of Expo from the different perspectives of the participants, mainly in the areas of Urban Planning, Environmental Protection, Culture and Migration. Through events like this, the Venice Pavilion would like to examine the theme of the Shanghai World Expo and so gain a better understanding of the impact of World Expo Shanghai on future world urban planning.

威尼斯世博委员会非常荣幸地邀请你参加《大都市在世博会的形象：城建、环保、文化，移民等方面》这一座谈会

威尼斯馆暨亚非学院上海分所组织的《大都市在世博会的形象：城建、环保、移民等方面》这一座谈会将会有中国和意大利大学和研究机构的教授和学者参加，其中有博洛尼亚大学的梅札达教授，上大专家等。
座谈会的主旨为研究世博会的大都市形象和它在参加者的印象，主要是城建、环保、移民等这些方面。
通过这种和类似的活动，威尼斯馆希望能进一步了解上海世博会的内容并更好地认识到世博会在未来的上海和全世界的城建事业的印象。