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Human Geography

Seminar Series

Seminars take place on Thursdays, 11am-12.30pm in SAL.G.06 (unless otherwise noted) and are open to all.

Centner UPD Seminar

This series is organised by Dr Austin Zeiderman.

Please contact a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk or geog.research@lse.ac.uk with any questions.

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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'

Past seminars

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 (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
"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 (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
"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 ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
"Human geographies of splintering urbanism: A global South perspective"

Thursday 9 November
Prof Laura Pulido (University of Oregon and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) and Prof Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham)
"Transnational geographies of race"

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 (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, 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"