Past events

• Geography Seminar: Dr Miriam Williams, Macquarie University, Sydney - Care-full Cities: Insights into Theory and Practice

  15:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025

  The department of Geography welcomes Dr Miriam Williams (School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney) to deliver this in-person seminar 'Care-full Cities: Insights into Theory and Practice' Open to all staff and students.

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• Archiving the People's Papers: Learning from Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham

  15:00 - 16:30 30 September 2025

  Join us online to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today: https://peoplespapers.eventbrite.co.uk The alternative and community newspapers of the 1970s in the UK are amazing historical resources -- documenting the groups, places and events of the time usually in...

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• Aesthetics and the City Launch

  15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025

  Join us for the launch of Aesthetics and the City, an edited collection that explores the vital role of aesthetics in shaping urban experience. Bringing together contributors from across disciplines and global contexts, this book launch examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. Through...

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• Carelessness: On the Geographies of Care and Violence - Carl Bonner-Thompson (Utrecht)

  14:00 - 16:00 21 May 2026

  This paper explores the relationship between care and violence through the lens of carelessness, arguing for a more sustained theorisation of how they are entangled and mutually constitutive. While feminist, political, and social geographies have developed rich accounts of care as an ethical relation and political project, and geographical scholarship...

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