Urban Violence

Organised by Thomas Jellis and Ian Klinke

Tenant trouble: Resisting precarity in Berlin's Märkisches Viertel, 1968-1974 - Prof Dr Alexander Vasudevan, University of Oxford

Week 2: 4pm, Thursday 26th January 2017, J Gottmann Room, SoGE

Tenant trouble: Resisting precarity in Berlin's Märkisches Viertel, 1968-1974

Dr Alexander Vasudevan, University of Oxford
Infrastructural violence and the right to the city - Dr Martin Coward, University of Manchester

Week 4: 3pm, Friday 10th February, E W Gilbert Room, SoGE - Please note that this seminar is on a Friday and not a Thursday

Infrastructural violence and the right to the city

Dr Martin Coward, University of Manchester
Discrepant cosmopolitanism and the urban geopolitics of hospitality and hostility in Beirut - Dr Sara Fregonese, University of Birmingham

Week 6: 4pm, Thursday 23rd February 2017, J Gottmann Room, SoGE

Discrepant cosmopolitanism and the urban geopolitics of hospitality and hostility in Beirut

Dr Sara Fregonese, University of Birmingham
Dirt and danger: Beyond a bourgeois understanding of public spaces - Dr Pushpa Arabindoo, University College London

Week 8: 2pm, Thursday 9th March 2017, A J Herbertson Room, SoGE

Dirt and danger: Beyond a bourgeois understanding of public spaces

Dr Pushpa Arabindoo, University College London

All are welcome!

Seminars are organised by the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place and Technological Natures: Materialities, mobilities, politics research clusters. For further information please contact or