Greece: Hope drowns in the Reality of a Dying World. Or does it?- John Holloway, Public Lecture 7th September 2015
John Holloway’s public lecture will be in Broadcasting Place (Leeds Beckett University, located opposite the Fenton pub on Woodhouse Lane), room BPAG02 at 19.00 on Monday, September 7th 2015. John Holloway is Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y humanidades in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. John will be returning […]
Global Urban Justice; voices and struggles from Latin America. 16th-19th February public talks
Contested Cities Leeds is hosting a week of debates on urban struggles, displacement, mobility and movements from across the globe, with a particular focus on Latin America. These are all open to the public and will be held at 5pm in the Geography East Building Lecture Theater Contested Citizenship in Latin American Cities? Monday […]
Cities for sale and the Zapatista rebellion, 20 years on
Two talks following Contested Cities Leeds recent international meeting. Thursday 18th September: 5pm. School of Geography East Building Lecture Theatre University of Leeds The Escuelita Zapatista, celebrating 20 years of resistance and struggle in Chiapas, Mexico Claudia Villegas, a visiting researcher from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, will talk about the recent […]
CONTESTED CITIES research network UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday 27 August 2014, RGS/IBG, London Monday 1st, Tuesday 2nd September 2014, Leeds Contested Cities is an international network of action, investigation and exchange of researchers from eight European and Latin American universities located in Madrid, Leeds, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, funded by the EU between 2012 […]
Experiences of urban contestation; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro
On the 19th of February Leeds school of geography hosted the talk “experiences of urban contestation”, benefiting from the presence of Pablo Vitale, a visiting researcher from Buenos Aires and Federico Venturini a researcher from Leeds recently arrived from Rio de Janeiro. The two researchers addressed different aspects of neoliberal urbanization in Latin America, although […]
Tom Slater ‘Grieving for Lost Homes: Territorial Stigmatisation, the Rent Gap, and Displacement’
Tom Slater’s talk focused on his recent research of housing estates in the Edinburgh area. His talk focused in particular on how space in the city is reproduced, people are excluded and profit accumulated.
