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Cristina Temenos: Filling gaps and papering cracks. Innovation and state failures in the polycrisis. Invited Colloquium talk to the Department of Geography, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Sotiria Kyriakidou: The role of homeless shelters in shaping substance use among shelter residents in Chile. Invited Seminar to the Health and health systems in the Global South Seminar Series, University of Manchester, UK.

Cristina Temenos: Urban Crisis: From Experimentation to Innovative Municipal Policy? Invited Colloquium talk to the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile.
Cristina Temenos: Boring Innovations: New and Renewed Forms of Urban Health Governance. Invited Colloquium talk to the Department of Geography, University of Southampton.

Troubling Health: Austerity Politics and Public Health Service Provision in European Cities. ACME Keynote Lecture RGS-IBG Conference, London, UK.

Experimentation & Crisis: Researching Urban Policy Mobilities and Models Across the Global North and Global South. RC21, Santiago Chile. Co-Organized with Cristina Temenos, Paola Jiron, and Jess Linz.

Urban Crisis & Transformational Possibilities. International Critical Geographies Conference, Mexico City. 2 Sessions Co-Organized with Cristina Temenos, Jess Linz, Paula Soto, Anna Levy.
Spatializing Urban Crisis: Between Recovery and Transformation, Between the Structural and the Everyday. AAG Annual Meeting. 5 Sessions Co-Organized with Cristina Temenos & Jess Linz.

Spatializing Crisis: Between Recovery and Transformation. RGS-IBG Annual Meeting. Co-Organized with Cristina Temenos & Jess Linz.

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Sotiria Kyriakidou* & Cristina Temenos: The Impact of Shelter Activities and Social Dynamics on Substance Use Among People Who Use Homelessness Shelters. Pathways from Homelessness 2025 Annual Confernece, London, UK.

Kyriakidou, S.*, C Temenos, C Henry, T Paparrigopoulos, K Triantafyllou: Poster presentation, “Exploring the Dynamics of Alcohol Use, Poverty & the Role of Social Context in Athens, Greece.” 17th European Public Health Conference, Athens, Greece.
Kyriakidou S.*, Temenos C., et al: Oral presentation, Safety, Staff and Social Context in Drug and Alcohol Use within Urban Homeless Shelters, Comparing Athens and Manchester. R21 Urban and Regional Development Conference.

Cristina Temenos* & Jess Linz: Paper, Urban Innovation or Grassroots Experimentation? New forms and politics of urban health governance. RGS-IBG, London, UK.
Cristina Temenos: Invited Speaker on the Future of Policy Mobilities Research. Urban Studies Foundation workshop: Alternative circulations? Situating policymaking, decoloniality, and urban models within Latin American cities. Mexico City, Mexico.
Cristina Temenos: Discussant. Urban Competitiveness and Urban Policy Mobilities: Rethinking North-South Hegemonic Narratives. AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Cristina Temenos* & Jess Linz: Public health in crisis: Rethinking spaces of health and care in Manchester. AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, USA.
Jess Linz* & Cristina Temenos: Paper, Improvisación de crisis de salud en comparación relacional: Manchester, Santiago y Atenas. International Conference for Critical Geographies, Mexico City.
Jess Linz* & Cristina Temenos: Paper, Crisis urbana: salud pública en la intersección del cambio económico y social. Workshop on Urban Policy Mobilities, University of Chile, Santiago.

Cristina Temenos: Everyday Proper Politics: Rethinking spaces of health and care amidst everyday urban crises. RC21 Conference, Athens, Greece.
Cristina Temenos & Jess Linz: Panelists, Spatializing Crisis: Exploring recovery, transformation, and emergence at the intersection of ongoing and event-based crises. RGS-IBG, Newcastle, UK.

Cristina Temenos: Public health in crisis: Rethinking spaces of health and care amidst ongoing urban crises. AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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