Utopian Property Conference

[Simon Fairlie]

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> From: Libby Porter <E.J.Porter at sheffield.ac.uk>
> Date: 26 September 2007 09:23:37 BDT
> To: Planners Network UK <pnuk at sheffield.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Fwd: ESRC Seminar Series: Utopian Property Programme]
>
> PNUK, the following seminar on alternative property rights etc. may  
> be of interest to some of you. If somebody goes, it would be great  
> to have a quick report back to pnuk with any new ideas?!
> Libby
>>
>>
>>     ESRC Seminar Series: Utopian Property Programme
>>
>> THE FIRST IN AN ESRC FUNDED SEMINAR SERIES ON UTOPIAN PRACTICES
>>
>>
>>       10 November 2007 University of Westminster (Regent Campus)
>>
>> Room CG77,
>> The Chiltern Building,
>> Marylebone Campus
>> University of Westminster
>> London
>>
>> Directions: The Marylebone campus is right by Baker Street tube on  
>> Marylebone Rd and opposite Madam Tussauds.
>>
>> *9.00 Registration*
>>
>> *9.30-10.45 Panel One: Property and alternative communities*
>>
>> Sarah Blandy (Leeds) /Property rights in prospect and practice / 
>> [Read Abstract <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/ 
>> PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> Lucy Sargisson (Nottingham) /A short study of alternative property  
>> relations in intentional communities /[Read Abstract <http:// 
>> www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> *11.00-12.15 Panel Two: A different relationship to land/ nation*
>>
>> Irene Watson (Sydney) /Aboriginal relationships to country: a  
>> utopian past which dreams and sings the future /[Read Abstract  
>> <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> Anne Bottomley (Kent) /‘Go up and seize the land’: Utopian land  
>> reform and the garden city movement. /[Read Abstract <http:// 
>> www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> *12.15-1.15 Lunch*
>>
>> *1.15-2.30 Panel Three: Governmentality and public property*
>>
>> Helen Carr (Kent) /Cultivating allotments and the ideal citizen / 
>> [Read Abstract <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/ 
>> PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> Judith Smyth (Office for Public Management) /Who owns public  
>> services and does it matter? /[Read Abstract <http:// 
>> www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> *2.45- 4.30 Panel Four: Grass-roots agency and activism*
>>
>> Sean Robertson (SFU) /Natives making place: rhetoric, practice and  
>> the moral economy of intellectual properties /[Read Abstract  
>> <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> Peter North (Liverpool) /Alternative Currencies as Utopian  
>> Practice /[Read Abstract <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/ 
>> Utopia/PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> Paul Chatterton (Leeds) /Building autonomy and self management in  
>> the city: the case of the UK social centres movement /[Read  
>> Abstract <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/ 
>> PropertyAbstracts.php>]
>>
>> *4.45-5.30 Closing round-table*
>>
>> Barbara Goodwin (University of East Anglia)
>>
>> Nick Blomley (SFU)
>>
>> Miranda Joseph (Arizona)
>>
>> *If you wish to attend the seminar please complete the*  
>> Application Form <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/Utopia/ 
>> APPLICATION_FORM.php>* or send an email to:  
>> *utopia at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:utopia at nottingham.ac.uk>
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>
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> Nicholas Blomley,
>
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>
> Department of Geography,
>
> Simon Fraser University,
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> -- 
> Dr Libby Porter
> Lecturer, Town and Regional Planning
> University of Sheffield
> Geography and Planning Building
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> Sheffield
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> email: e.j.porter at sheffield.ac.uk
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