‘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. Towards accomplicenship and undercommon praxis
Keynotes: Professor Michele Lancione (University of Turin) in conversation with Veda Popovici (activist, scholar, performer and political organiser).
Session 4, 4pm-5.30pm (GMT): Housing, debt and social reproduction: a feminist research perspective
Keynotes: Professor Verónica Gago (University of Buenos Aires) and Luci Cavallero (University of Buenos Aires) in conversation
Closing remarks: 5.30pm-5.40pm (GMT)