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London's Housing Crisis and its Activisms Conference

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Venue: University Square Stratford Campus

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London's Housing Crisis and its Activisms Conference

Hosted by University of East London and Birkbeck

Saturday 23rd April 2016

University Square Stratford, 1 Salway Road, Stratford, London E15 1NF

This one day conference launches a forthcoming CITY Special Feature on 'London's Housing Crisis and its Activisms', co-edited by Paul Watt (Birkbeck) and Anna Minton (UEL).

Speakers at the conference include contributors to the Special Feature, alongside Aditya Chakrabortty, Senior Economics Commentator at The Guardian, and Sian Berry, Green Party Mayoral candidate.

The conference is also a way of celebrating the 20th anniversary of CITY, a journal which has consistently been at the forefront of radical urban scholarship under the editorship of Bob Catterall:

http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ccit20#.VvAIb03cu70

Conferences Fees

Payable on the day at registration:

  • Waged £5

  • Student £3

  • Unwaged Free

Please register for the conference on Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1RwazCf

    Conference Programme

    10.00 10.30 am: Registration, tea/coffee

    10.30 am: Introductions

    Anna Minton (UEL), Paul Watt (Birkbeck), Bob Catterall (Editor-in-Chief, CITY)

    11.00 am: Keynote: Aditya Chakrabortty, Senior Economics Commentator, The Guardian

    11.30 am - 1.00 pm:

    Panel 1 The Financialisation of Housing, chaired by Dawn Foster, The Guardian

    • Michael Edwards (UCL) The housing crisis and London

    • Luna Glucksberg (Goldsmiths) A view from the top: unpacking capital flows and foreign investment in prime London

    • Stuart Hodkinson (University of Leeds) Global corporate landlords in 'post-crisis' urban landscapes in North America and Europe: speculating on London's housing future

    Followed by Q&A

    1.00 -2.00 pm: Lunch

    2.00-3.30 pm: Workshops

    1. Linking housing campaigns and the Kill the Housing Bill Campaign Katya Nasim (Radical Housing Network) and Eileen Short (Defend Council Housing and Radical Housing Network)

    2. Viability assessments: how developers build what they want to build Jerry Flynn (Elephant Amenity Network/35percent campaign), Bob Colenutt (University of Northampton) and Nick Perry (The Hackney Society)

    3. Estate regeneration: lessons from Cressingham Gardens Pam Douglas and Tom Keene (Save Cressingham Gardens)

    4. Architects for Social Housing Simon Elmer and Geraldine Dening (ASH)

    5. Academia, activism and social cleansing Tom Gillespie (University of Sheffield), Penny Bernstock (UEL), Kate Hardy (University of Leeds) and Focus E15

    6. Beyond The Margins: Squatting and Homelessness - A workshop facilitated by the Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) and the Beehive Housing Project

    3.30 4.00 pm: tea/coffee

    4.00 6.00 p.m.

    Panel 2 Is London Being Socially Cleansed? Chaired by Loretta Lees (University of Leicester)

    Anna Minton (author of Ground Control, UEL)

    Guy Nicholson (Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Hackney Council)

    Sian Berry (Green Party Mayoral candidate)

    Paul Watt (Birkbeck) A nomadic war machine in the Metropolis: en/countering London's 21st century housing crisis with Focus E15

    Speaker from Focus E15

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