Several of our members are presenting their works at the RGS-IBG conference in London this week. Here is a list of the sessions:
Thursday, 29 August
9am – Session: Mapping caste-gender intersections in urban geographies of the Global South (1) [GFGRG], Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 7 (In-person only), Organised by: Saanchi Saxena, Syeda Jenifa Zahan, and Sneha, Krishnan
11:10am – Author Meets Critics: Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife (Colin McFarlane) Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 5 (In-person only). Organised by: Michele Lancione, Claire Mercer, Matthew Gandy, Paula Meth, Colin Marx, Alexander Vasudevan, Colin McFarlane, and Tatiana Thieme
11:10am – Session: Mapping caste-gender intersections in urban geographies of the Global South (2) [GFGRG], Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 7 (In-person only), Organised by: Saanchi Saxena, Syeda Jenifa Zahan, and Sneha, Krishnan
11:10am – Paper: Evictions as Spatial Performance: Women Street Vendors, Politics of Caste & Gender, and the Everyday Productions of Space in Mumbai (Saanchi Saxena), Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 7 (In-person only), Organised by: Saanchi Saxena, Syeda Jenifa Zahan, and Sneha, Krishnan
4:50pm – Paper: Post-asylum geographies of madness Finding space for getting mad: the case of Turin (Alessandra Mossa), Venue – Imperial Seminar 18 Organised by: Jessy Williams and Mara Linden
Friday, 30 August
9am – Paper: Housing, The unfulfilling relation (Michele Lancione), Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 7 (In-person only) Organised by: Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler
11:10am – Paper: Research through astray: getting lost at the intersection of housing, inhabitation and sex work (Daniela Morpurgo), Venue – Imperial Seminar 16 Organised by: Josefina Jaureguiberrry and Megan Ryburn
2:40pm – Author Meets Critics: For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Michele Lancione), Venue – ICL — Royal School of Mines Room 301c (In-person only) Organised by: Colin McFarlane, Katherine Brickell, Ben Anderson, Erin McElroy, Victoria Okoye, Saanchi Saxena, and Michele Lancione
2:40pm – Session: Towards a feminist geopolitics of (smart) home in the age of smart urbanism
Venue – Online Room 3 Organised by: Syeda Jenifa Zahan
4:50pm – Author Meets Critics: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Erin McElroy), Venue – ICL — Sir Alexander Fleming Room 120 (In-person only)
Organised by: Kavita Dattani, Erin McElroy, Ryan S Powell, Gillian Rose, and Michele Lancione