I am going to be involved in a number of sessions at the RGS-IBG conference in London this week, including discussing books from my friends Colin and Erin, as well as presenting my own book (For a Liberatory Politics of Home). Here are the sessions:
Thursday, 29 August
11:10am – Author Meets Critics: Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife (Colin McFarlane) Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 5 (In-person only). Organised by: Michele Lancione, Claire Mercer, Matthew Gandy, Paula Meth, Colin Marx, Alexander Vasudevan, Colin McFarlane, and Tatiana Thieme
Friday, 30 August
9am – Paper: Housing, The unfulfilling relation (Michele Lancione), Venue – ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 7 (In-person only) Organised by: Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler
2:40pm – Author Meets Critics: For a Liberatory Politics of Home (Michele Lancione), Venue – ICL — Royal School of Mines Room 301c (In-person only) Organised by: Colin McFarlane, Katherine Brickell, Ben Anderson, Erin McElroy, Victoria Okoye, Saanchi Saxena, and Michele Lancione
4:50pm – Author Meets Critics: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Erin McElroy), Venue – ICL — Sir Alexander Fleming Room 120 (In-person only)
Organised by: Kavita Dattani, Erin McElroy, Ryan S Powell, Gillian Rose, and Michele Lancione