Cultural Resistance Urban Activism and the Arts
On 8th September 2015, we have a panel focusing on Cultural Resistance, Arts and Activism. The Panel will be at 14.30-15.30 Garstang Building Room 7.36, School of Geography at the University of Leeds. It is free to attend and there is no need to register. Speakers at this Panel are drawn from two sessions at […]
Think Hope, Think Crisis: a workshop with John Holloway
The workshop will be held on 08/09/2015 at 10.30- 13.30 in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds To attend the workshop register here by August 20th The MA in ‘Global Urban Justice’ and the ‘Cities and Social Justice’ research cluster at the School of Geography, University of Leeds are organising a workshop […]
CRISIS AND HOPE: PERSPECTIVES ON RESISTANCE
On 7th September John Holloway will give a public lecture titled: Greece: Hope drowns in the Reality of a Dying World. Or does it? The lecture will start at 19.00 in Broadcasting House, Leeds Beckett University, room BPAG02 The following day, on 8th September John Holloway will be running a workshop titled: Think Hope, Think Crisis from […]
Final two days of Contested Cities Leeds week of talks: Global Urban Justice; voices and struggles from Latin America.
Contested Cities Leeds week of talks concluded with seminars and two successful public debates on Retail gentrification in Santiago Chile by Neil Turnbull and Accumulation by dispossession in cities: UK, China, Argentina with Débora Swistun, Stuart Hodkinson and Paul Waley. Both of these public debates are available to watch again, with links below. […]
Half way through Contested Cities Leeds week of talks: Global Urban Justice; voices and struggles from Latin America.
Contested cities week has begun and so far we have had two fascinating days of talks discussions and field trips in Leeds. Jorge Blanco’s talk is now available online, with more to come in the following days. For live streaming of the talks check the Contested Cities Leeds Youtube channel at 5pm GMT 16th- 19th […]
Contested Cities at The Royal Geographical Society Conference- London
26th-29th August 2014 “Co-producing urban contestation across the world: a roundtable with academics and social movement activists” Sara Gonzalez, Stuart Hodkinson and Michael Janoschka Wednesday 27 August 2014, Session 4 (16.50-18.30) Confirmed speakers are: Andrea Carrasco, lawyer and activist in the Platform for those Affected by Mortgages (PAH – Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca) in […]
