Nitasha Kaul after Filippo Osella and Lindsey Bremner (and many more, I'm sure) as Big Brother's latest target. Freedom of expression comes with a heavy price. Time to rethink that research project if I wanna go back home, it seems. What a joke.

Have you entered our 'Putting Community at the Core of Copthall Pavillion' design competition with Barnet Council? We're inviting #architects, #designers and #artists to animate the two-storey sports pavilion. Enter by 11 March! ⏰ londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/putting-commun… #LFA2024 #Reimagine

Congratulations to Riken Yamamoto, 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yokosuka Museum of Art, photo courtesy of Tomio Ohashi.

In India, Muslim women’s expressions of identity have been met with the curtailment of fundamental rights to education across different states. Read: Haqeeqat Aur Khwaab: Futures Of Muslim Women’s Agency In India feminisminindia.com/2024/03/07/haq…

Peer Support Meet for Doctoral Researchers Organised by the PhD Society, this informal gathering offers a space to exchange, share, & navigate challenges together. Includes guest speaker Dr Chen Yang 21 March, 1-5pm UG.02, Regent Street Book here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

The reason it’s important to quote and cite Palestinians in your writing about Zionism, the war, the history etc is not for reasons of representation it’s because they are decades ahead of you intellectually and if you’re not engaging them you’re probably missing the story

Human Geography 17.1 has been published. It has a special symposium on Mike Davis that has been guest edited by Ananya Roy. Please share widely: journals.sagepub.com/toc/HUG/current

Just some great bedtime stories! (Mental note to self: read more fiction too)

The demise of the hobbies of the privileged... Perhaps it's also just that today, the gap between different social groups in terms of how they define and navigate the idea of leisure is straitening?

Excited to be part of the 'In Conversation' series taking place on June 7 at the University of Westminster. Looking forward to a day of insightful discussions and learning!

EVENT ALERT! ‘Activating PhD Research- Social Engagement and Impacts’ Welcoming all to the Doctoral Research Symposium 2024 of the School of Architecture + Cities, at University of Westminster on May 22! Make sure to register on: eventbrite.co.uk/e/activating-p…

Looking forward to a summer of learning and growing!!

I'm thrilled to be co-organising the inaugural Doctoral Research Symposium at the University of Westminster's School of Architecture + Cities: ‘Activating PhD Research - Social Engagement and Impacts' Register for the event on Eventbrite: lnkd.in/ekaaVDPs

From the 'Researchers In Conversation' Symposium yesterday at the Graduate School Festival at University of Westminster. Presented my research on Mappila women's performative responses to gendered spatial framework of their homes, discussing power, agency & the colonial gaze.

What problems do archives raise in trying to reconstruct the lives of women who leave no written record? Read our blog on Searching for the ‘Invisible Woman’: Working with (and subverting) the archives womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-for-… #IAW2024