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The City Centre sponsors, hosts and promotes urban-related events organised by staff and postgraduate researchers across Queen Mary University of London. See below for recent events.

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2023-2024

Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe and the Mediterranean Workshop

  • Ana Roda Sanchez (QMUL Doctoral Student) organised a workshop to explore the making of identities through law, ritual and social relations, in late medieval and early modern cities in Europe and the Mediterranean (1300-1800 CE). 5 June 2024. This workshop was funded by the City Centre. Presenters included:
    • Dr Matthew Stevens, Swansea University: Absent Poles and Prussians? Non-German Townspeople in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Prussia
    • Antonio Pio Di Cosmo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/ISACCL Bucarest: Mary and The City: The Metropolitan See and its Context, The Development of The Episcopal Complex in a Decaying City
    • Emmanouil Chatziathanasiou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: The Urban Aspect of The Labour Legislation in Late Medieval England, 1348-1500
    • Stanislaw Banach, University of Cambridge: Objects of Destruction: The Physical Targets of Urban Revolt in East Central Europe, 1300-1500
    • Dr Lorenzo Caravaggi, Lancaster University: Reconstructing Divisions in Medieval Cities. Historians, Sources and Conflict in Late Medieval Italy.
    • Jason Mazzocchi, Canterbury Christ Church University: The Fraternity of The Free Fishermen and Dredgermen of Faversham 1580-1600
    • Ana Roda Sánchez, Queen Mary University: Racialised Attitudes towards Jewish Converts in Fifteenth-Century Toledo: The Sentencia-Estatuto of Pero Sarmiento and the Aftermath of the Toledo Rebellion (1449)
    • Stepan Blinder, University of Cambridge: Ad Communem Studiosorum: Communicative Entanglements of Library Visits in Urban Centers of The Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
    • Alesia Mankouskaya, University College London: Tracing Cultural Encounters: The Evolution of Bilingual Academic Drama from Jesuits Academy to Muscovy Court Theatre

Intersectionality and (in)justice in the city - A research workshop

  • Estelle Broyer (QMUL Doctoral Student) organised a workshop to think through the key concepts of intersectionality, justice and injustice, and how they complement, contradict or complicate each other. Joe Hoover (QMUL) opened the discussion with a presentation of his work on The Injustice of Gentrification. This public talk was followed by a cross-disciplinary roundtable involving ten participants (all PhD students and postdoctoral researchers). 1 May 2024. This workshop was funded by the City Centre. Roundtable presenters included:
    • Estelle Broyer, QMUL, School of Geography: Introduction. Why a workshop on Intersectionality and (In)justice in the City?
    • Saptadeepa Chowdhury, UCL, Bartlett School of Planning: Understanding informalities of planning in India, focusing on the delivery of the Affordable Housing Partnership (AHP) vertical in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U) scheme in India 
    • Lucy Everitt, KCL, Department of Geography: Mapping queer geographies of household water insecurity in New York City from 1970 to present day 
    • Ed Kiely, QMUL, School of Geography: Uneven urban geographies of psychiatric detention: Epistemic injustice and spatial violence 
    • Sofia Negri, QMUL, School of Geography: A unionism that has the face of a woman, of a migrant, of a Latinx. Delivery platform workers organising in Buenos Aires 
    • Ana Roda Sanchez, QMUL, School of History: Religion, race and social segregation in late medieval Iberia: The discrimination of Jewish converts in fifteenth-century Toledo 
    • Rachele Shamouni-Naghde, QMUL, School of Geography: Situating intersectionality 
    • Natasha Sharma, QMUL, School of Geography: Life and labour of manual scavenging communities in Kolkata: A social justice and intersectionality approach 
    • Anil Sindhwani, Durham University, Department of Geography, visiting the School of Geography at QMUL: Rethinking community in gentrification: Expulsion and extraction dynamics 
    • Kieran Stigant, QMUL, School of History: Invading heteronormative spaces: Developing intersectional protest frames for gay activism in 1960s America 

Writing Rent Now

  • Matt Ingleby (QMUL) and Ushashi Dasgupta (Oxford) organised the launch of the Rent Cultures Network (http://rentcultures.org). The launch event 'Writing Rent Now,' included a roundtable and reception with the poet and novelist Holly Pester, the critic and publisher Rachael Allen, and Matt Ingleby and Ushashi Dasgupta - two Victorianist working on rent and fiction. It was held in association with the QM City Centre and the QM Centre for Contemporary Writing. 24 November 2023. 

City Centre Welcome Social

  • City Centre social to connect QMUL scholars working on urban issues. 11 October 2023.

2022-2023

The Social Impacts of LTNs: Film screening and panel discussion

  •  Estelle Broyer (QMUL Doctoral Student) lead a screening of Rowdy Sharman's film Divided, followed by a panel and public discussion of the impacts and pros/cons and implementation of London's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.  14 March 2023. 

David M. Smith Annual Lecture

  • Professor Anoop Nayak (Newcastle University) 'Blasted Places: Smog, Steel and Stigma in a Post-industrial Region' 6pm, Thursday 9th December. QMUL Geography Building Room 1.26

2020-2021

Crowds, Affects Cities

  • 2020-21 Seminar Series, in collaboration with the QMUL Centre for the History of Emotions 

Covid-19 has caused widespread disruption to the pleasures and possibilities of gathering in cities, bringing new forms of anxiety to urban encounters and witnessing crowd scenes, whether lockdown protests or the jubilant celebrations after the US election. As we make do in this time of social distancing, this series provides an opportunity to assemble (online) and reflect on the intensities, emotions and experiences of urban crowds. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, seminars will entail 35 minute presentations with time for questions and discussion to follow. Anyone interested is welcome to join.

19th May, 5pm. Dr Deborah Gould (University of California)

'Passion & Danger in Trump's Time and After'

7th April, 1pm. Dr Nida Kirmani (Lahore University)

'Playing at the Boundary: Exporing the Relationship Fetween Feminim and Fun in Karachi'

24th March, 1pm. Prof Christian Borch (Sociology, Copenhagen Business School)

'Urban Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets'

10th March, 1pm.  Prof Colin McFarlane (Geography, Durham University)

'The crowd and Covid-19'

24th February 1pm. Prof Benno Gammerl (History, European University Institute)

'Happy together? The intimate publics of gay liberation'. 

24th March, 1pm. Prof Christian Borch (Sociology, Copenhagen Business School)

'Urban Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets'

16th December 8pm.  Dr Ben Gook, History, University of Melbourne

Collectivity and Affect in Crisis Times: Dancing in Berlin, 1989-2020

 2nd December 1-2pm.  Dr Illan Wall, Law, Warwick University

The State of Unrest: Crowds, Protests, Atmospheres. 

 

Mitigation or Adaption: Hard Choices for Cities

  • Seminar with Professor Richard Sennett, 25 June 2020

 The City in a Time of Social Distancing

  • Seminar with Professor Alan Latham (UCL), Anna-Louise Milne (ULIP) and AbdouMaliq Simone (Sheffield), 14 May 2020

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