Below is the full schedule of the forthcoming Cities, Space and Development seminar series in the Lent Term 2014. For any enquiries, please contact the seminar coordinator Dr Claire Mercer.
The Research Seminar in Cities, Space and Development 2013-14
Tuesdays 5-6.30pm East Building EAS.E168
Maps and Directions: http://www.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.aspx
Download: Seminar Programme in PDF
All welcome.
Jan 14
New ‘objectivity’? Parties, Weberian demonology, and the political
Dr Murray Low, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
Chair: Professor Ian Gordon
Jan 21
Home and inhabitation: a biography of the Aylesbury Estate
Dr Richard Baxter, Department of Geography, QMUL
Chair: Dr Claire Mercer
Jan 28
Belated mobilities: the here and there of transport planning in Mumbai
Dr Andrew Harris, Department of Geography, UCL
Chair: Dr Romola Sanyal
Feb 4
Grieving for Lost Homes: Territorial Stigmatisation, the Rent Gap, and Displacement
Dr Tom Slater, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Dr Hyun Bang Shin
Feb 11
‘For the elections, we want women!’ Closing the gender gap in Zambian politics’
Dr Alice Evans, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
The changing nature of green space in London: how growing populations and slowing resources affect decisions about urban green spaces
Meredith Whitten, PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
Chair: Dr Claire Mercer
Feb 18
Producing ‘decent’ cities: gender and urban upgrading
Dr Paula Meth, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield
Chair: Dr Gareth A. Jones
Feb 25
On the trail of the policy: methodological considerations of relational comparative urbanism
Professor Kevin Ward, University of Manchester
Chair: Dr Ryan Centner
Mar 4
Housing as citizenship: notes on refugees and the urban poor
Dr Romola Sanyal, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
Mar 11
Refugees in a space of agency: asserting citizenship despite control
Janna Miletzki, PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
Toil, property and propriety: social and political dynamics of rural female labour relations in Tamil Nadu
Taneesha Mohan, PhD candidate, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
Chair: Dr Murray Low
Mar 11
PhD Upgrade Seminar
