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Deadline extended to 15th March for this CfP to the RGS-IBG conference organized by our Linda Westman, Dr. Lorraine Dongo and Hita Unnikrishnan on Urban Climate Responses in the Peripheries. More details here

Me and Deanna are delighted to share the #CfP for our upcoming conference on truth and the representation of Black British History. 📝 Deadline: 24th April 🗓 21st - 22nd September ✊🏾 Supported by: Institute of Historical Research School of History, Queen Mary University of London @KennettaPerry history.ac.uk/events/cfp-iss…

Announcing our new Dialogues in Urban Inhabitation and the Urban Technical. Online and curated by our AbdouMaliq Simone, the first lecture will be by Prof Neferti Tadiar Onda on her book Remaindered Life. 30th March 2023, 1630 -1800 GMT. Sign up: shorturl.at/egoyT

#ClimateChange is here now! E.g. #CycloneFreddy in #Malawi, #Mozambique and #Madagascar shows first hand suffering of most vulnerable & the cost of politics & governments not being prepared and simply not prioritising real action. #ClimateFinance flows rethinking #IPCC #AR6

“The science is clear on #ClimateChange, what we need now is political will.” IPCC chair Hoesung Lee via IPCC press conference on the Summary for Policymakers of the #AR6 Synthesis Report. 📼Watch here: bit.ly/SYRPRcfe

Next time someone says: 'this is impossible, what could we possibly do to deal with climate change?'- please refer them to this handy figure from the #ar6 #syr #IPCC

“This synthesis report has stronger evidence of #LossAndDamage ever than before. Climate impacts are happening in every region.” Christopher Trisos IPCC author via IPCC press conference on the Summary for Policymakers of the #AR6 Synthesis Report.

New #BookReview forum podcast of “The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture” with City Road Podcast Dallas Rogers @scotinoz @AdamDavidMorton Tanzil Shafique AbdouMaliq Simone Duke University Press. Listen here proxy.link.app/984739005367/o…

Excited to be at the UTA-Do African Cities Workshop 2023 Summer School at British Institute in Eastern Africa . Prof Samuel Owuor giving us the keynote.

Prof. Samuel Owour “Training on urban studies (in or for Africa) requires a deliberate focus on urban Africa's diverse socio-cultural, historical, economic and political contexts.” UTA-Do African Cities Workshop African Centre for Cities African Cities Research Consortium

What is Southern Theory, and why does it matter? #utado2023 discussions led by SurayaScheba enquiring on what it means to speak from the ‘South’ and the possibilities and blind-spots of Southern theory.

I’m discussion with Alice Gathoni, a researcher and activist at the #utado2023 on how disability resides in the society not in the Person. Social attitudes on disability need revisiting and rethinking.

African cities and the provisions for people with disabilities are a big mismatch! Basic provisions are nonexistent! #utado2023 Gathoni Alice sharing research done by others that she has encountered.

Keguro notes that expectations about gender and sexuality get built into ordinary urban practices (security and bathrooms), but can also be legislated, as it happening in Uganda and Kenya at the moment #utado2023 hrw.org/news/2023/03/2…

UTA-Do 2023 African Cities workshop learning visit day at Mathare Social Justice Centre. More on their powerful critical work on their website: matharesocialjustice.org Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) #utado2023

Activists at Mathare Social Justice Centre say their focus on ecological activism, ecological justice is inspired by the late Kenyan social, environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai. Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) #utado2023

We are excited to kick off our conference on Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene today with an opening keynote by Matthew Gandy on Inhabiting a Broken World. Also today: public lecture by Tim Morton: The Silence of the Lawns, 18:15-18:30 BST, More 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

Excited to be attending the The Urban Institute 3 days conference ‘Urban Inhabitation in the Anthropocene’ starting today with Vanesa Castán Broto introducing the conference and asking how are we going to inhabit this Anthropocene?

followed by a great session on confronting capitalist ruins and living with precarity, with presentations by Adam Abdullah and Saska Petrova

Erwin Nugraha presenting on climate enclaves at the Urban Inhabitation in the #Anthropocene conference. LO-ACT The Urban Institute Erwin Nugraha