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RGS-IBG AC2023 – UGRG sponsored sessions

Session titleSession organisers
Off-grid Cities: Infrastructure tensions between sustainability and (in)justiceProf Charlotte Lemanski, University of Cambridge
Assoc Prof Fiona Anciano, University of the Western Cape
Christina Culwick Fatti, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
Dr Margot Rubin, Cardiff University
Comparative moments in urban research: Building methodology from now and hereDr Yimin Zhao, Renmin University / University of Zurich
Dr Julie Ren, University of Zurich
Theorising (with) East Asian urban geographiesDr Shaun Teo, National University of Singapore
Prof Hyun Bang Shin, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Informational peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital ageProf Ayona Datta, University College London
Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, University College London
Emerging geographies of non-dominant inhabitations: Experiences, subversions and aspirationsDr Paroj Banerjee, University College London
Dr Raffael Beier, TU Dortmund University
Artificial intelligences and transformations to more sustainable urban futuresDr Miguel Valdez, The Open University
Prof Matthew Cook, The Open University
Prof Andrew Karvonen, Lund University
Prof Pauline McGuirk, University of Wollongong
Experiencing environmental gentrification: New pathways in urban environmental gentrification researchAssoc Prof Susannah Bunce, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto  
Loren March, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto
‘Affordable’ housing production, finance and the state in the global North and SouthDr Tom Gillespie, University of Manchester  
Dr Glyn Williams, University of Sheffield

The UGRG also sponsors “Author Meets Critics: Creighton Connolly’s Political Ecologies of Landscape”…

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Cities of Hope Event in November

‘Cities of Hope’ Programme Summary

November 18th – Day 1

Welcome and introductions, 9.45am – 10am (GMT) Dr Jennie Middleton (University of Oxford), Chair of the Urban Geography Research Group

Session 1, 10am – 11.30am (GMT): Housing and the Indian Metropolis: Reflections on the Possibilities of Public Practice 

Keynotes: Dr Gautam Bhan (Indian Institute for Human Settlements) in conversation with Swastik Harish (independent housing researcher)

Session 2, 4pm – 5.30pm (GMT): Survivability and Hope on one of London’s newest Gentrification Frontiers 

Keynotes: Professor Loretta Lees (University of Leicester) in conversation with Beverley Robinson (former Chair of the Aylesbury Leaseholder’s Group)

November 19th – Day 2

Session 3, 10am – 11.30am (GMT): The false symmetry of research-activism.…