Fwd: 'Interventions in Urban and Spatial Justice Speaker Series'

[Mark Brown]

> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Stuart Hodkinson <S.N.Hodkinson at LEEDS.AC.UK>

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> 
> 
> The MA in Global Urban Justice and the Cities and Social Justice Cluster of
> the School of Geography (University of Leeds UK), together with the Contested
> Cities<http://contested-cities.net/> project, invite you to:
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> Monday, March 7th, 4:30-6:30PM: The London Housing Crisis: a View from the
> North
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> Location: Geography Seminar Room, Garstang 7th floor, just inside main
> entrance of Geography
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> Dr. Paul Watt, Birkbeck, University of London
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> Dr. Desiree Fields, University of Sheffield
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> Dr. Stuart Hodkinson, University of Leeds
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> Moderator: Dr. Alex Schafran, University of Leeds, CITY Debates editor
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> This roundtable presentation will feature new research and ideas which are
> part of an upcoming special feature in the journal CITY on the London housing
> crisis. Scholars will present a mix of London-centred research and more
> comparative understandings, especially on the increasingly important role of
> transnational landlords in transforming real estate markets across the world,
> followed by debate and discussion. This seminar is an advanced premier of the
> special issue, which will be released in late April in London.
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> No RSVP required, questions and queries welcome. Please pass this along to
> interested parties, especially off campus.
> 
> 
> 
> Alex B. Schafran, Ph.D
> 
> Lecturer, School of Geography
> 
> University of Leeds
> 
> a.schafran at leeds.ac.uk<mailto:a.schafran at leeds.ac.uk>
> 
> www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.schafran<http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.schafran>
> 
> @alexschafran
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> Interventions in Urban and Spatial Justice is a new public speaker series
> organised by the School of Geography to create new critical insights on urban
> and spatial justice through a productive dialogue between the different
> disciplinary perspectives and approaches of our human geography research
> clusters: Centre for Spatial Analysis and
> Policy<http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/centre-for-spatial-analysis-and-policy/>,
> Cities and Social
> Justice<http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/cities-and-social-justice/>, and
> Citizenship and
> Belonging<http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/citizenship-and-belonging/>. It
> is run by staff and students of our two Masters Programmes: the MA in Global
> Urban Justice<http://www.globalurbanjustice.org/> and the MSc in Geographical
> Information Systems
> (GIS)<http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/msc-in-gis/>.