Winter Term 2025
23 January 2025
Elsa Noterman, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at QMUL
'What’s the use of property? The (un)making of proprietary publics'
6 February 2025
Niranjana Ramesh, Lecturer in Human Geography at QMUL
'Difference & disobedience: inhabiting an ecology of caste in the city'
20 February 2025
Jason Finch, Professor of English at Åbo Akademi University
‘Transatlantic (Rail) Connections: Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks (1934) and Twentieth-Century Mobility Imaginations’
6 March 2025
Persis Taraporevala, Lecturer in Environmental Geography at Birkbeck, University of London
'Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city'
20 March 2025
Jeremy Schmidt, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography at QMUL
'Landlocked: Oil, Empire, and Planetary Politics in Alberta'
Autumn Term 2024
Thursday 3 October
Human Geography Collective PhD-Faculty Social
Thursday 17 October
Olivia Mason (Newcastle University)
"Indigeneity, Citizenship, and Bedouin in Jordan’s Cultural Heritage Sites"
Thursday 31 October
Heather Dorries (University of Toronto)
"The City as a Colonial Growth Machine: Towards an Indigenous Political Economy of Place"
Thursday 28 November
Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)
"An Inordinate Affection"
Winter Term 2024
Thursday 18 January
Dr Clive Nwonka (UCL)
Thursday 1 February
Dr Archie Davies (Queen Mary, University of London)
"The historical geographies of metabolism: race, meat and land"
Thursday 15 February
Dr Victoria Okoye (University of Edinburgh)
"Nima’s "incomplete" humans: storying adolescents' black inhabitations in Accra"
Thursday 29 February
Dr Maan Barua (University of Cambridge)
"On incompletion: the urban as an amphibious question"
Thursday 14 March
Dr Tanya Matthan (LSE)
"Crops and claims: navigating agrarian risk and responsibility in central India"
Autumn Term 2023
Thursday 28 September
Dr Victoria Okoye (University of Edinburgh)
"Nima’s 'incomplete' humans: Storying adolescents' black inhabitations in Accra"
*Seminar Cancelled*
Thursday 12 October
Dr Laura Antona (LSE)
"Sent back: The spatial, material, and temporal experiences of forced migrant return in Southeast Asia"
Thursday 26 October
Dr Diganta Das (Nanyang Technological University and LSE)
"Human geographies of splintering urbanism: A global South perspective"
Thursday 9 November
Prof Laura Pulido (University of Oregon and LSE) and Prof Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham)
"Transnational geographies of race"
Listen to the seminar recording
Thursday 23 November
Dr Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini (University of Exeter)
"Re-Forming Resource Entrepôts: Urban Investment, Extraction, and Beira’s Grande and Golden Peacock Hotels"
2023
Thursday 19 January
Dr Mary Lawhon (University of Edinburgh)
"Theorizing beyond modernity: A modest approach to infrastructure and cities"
Thursday 2 February
Dr Alejandro De Coss-Corzo (University of Bath)
"Working with the end of water: labour, infrastructure, and the making of socio-environmental futures in Mexico City"
Thursday 2 March
Dr Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini (University of Exeter)
"Aesthetic Ambivalence and Maputo’s Chinese Gloria Hotel"
2022
Thursday 29 September
Dr Matthew Richmond (LSE, Latin America & Caribbean Centre)
"Peripheries in motion: Transformation & crisis at Brazil’s urban marginsy"
Thursday 27 October
Dr Sarah Kunz (University of Essex)
"Expatriate: Following a migration category"
Thursday 10 November
Dr Prince Guma (University of Sheffield)
"Incomplete futures of urban infrastructures in the making: Scenes from the digital age in Nairobi"
Thursday 24 November
Dr Omar Tesdell (Birzeit University)
"Urban green space and arboriculture in Palestine"
