Category: Past Events

  1. SEED seminar—Bangladesh in transition: A step forward democracy

    Bangladesh in transition: A step forward for democracy? Date: Thursday 12 September, 4 to 5pm Description The recent student-led protest movement in Bangladesh, which resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, marks a very significant political shift in the country’s recent history. The end of Hasina’s 15-year rule has left Bangladesh at a […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/10/seed-seminar-bangladesh-in-transition-a-step-forward-democracy

  2. Informality: Tracing the foundations and trajectory of African urbanism —Clifford Amoako seminar with InfUr—

    This presentation took place on Thursday 19th September 2024 with Professor Clifford Amoako. Abstract: In this presentation, I consolidate the view that informality is an instantiation of African urbanism, the multiple ‘beings’ of the urban, which offers a situated lens to start the discourse on African urbanism. With such framing, I call into question various […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/04/informality-tracing-the-foundations-and-trajectory-of-african-urbanism-clifford-amoako-seminar-with-infur

  3. Caring for life —Kelly Dombroski seminar with InfUr—

    This seminar took place on Thursday 5th September 2024 with Kelly Dombroski Abstract: Kelly will speak to her recent book, Caring for life. It tells the story of shifting hygiene assemblages in Minority and Majority World urban contexts, laying out the transformative possibilities of informal care practices for collective, widespread change. Kelly Dombroski is an […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/08/23/caring-for-life-kelly-dombroski-seminar-with-infur

  4. Politics of Home/Homelessness —Michele Lancione seminar with InfUr—

    This seminar took place on Thursday 8th August 2024 with Professor Michele Lancione Abstract: Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/18/politics-of-home-homelessness-michele-lancione-seminar-with-infur

  5. Informal urban design —Hesam Kamalipour seminar with InfUr-

    This seminar took place on Thursday 25th July 2024 with Dr. Hesam Kamalipour. Abstract: Forms of urban informality have become integral to how places are being made, unmade, and remade, particularly within the context of what is commonly referred to as the Global South. In this presentation, I discuss my research, which aims to explore […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/02/informal-urban-design-hesam-kamalipour-seminar-with-infur

  6. African urbanization & urban theory – Jennifer Robinson seminar with InfUr-

    This seminar took place on Thursday 13th June 2024 with professor Jennifer Robinson Abstract: Ideas about shared predicaments across the global South have framed thinking within concepts – such as informality and developmentalism – that hold potential, but also pitfalls in gaining traction in critical analyses of power. This talk will reflect on the possibility […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/05/24/african-urbanization-urban-theory-jennifer-robinson-seminar-with-infur

  7. Semiotic in/formality on urban surfaces -Sabina Andron seminar with InfUr-

    This seminar took place on Thursday 9th May 2024 with research fellow Sabina Andron. Abstract: Surfaces have taught me everything I know about cities. Using visual ethnographies of graffiti and public signage, this talk will examine public walls as typologies of urban in/formality and spatial co-production. Dr. Sabina Andron is a specialist in urban visual […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/04/24/semiotic-in-formality-on-urban-surfaces-sabina-andron-seminar-with-infur

  8. InfUr Seminar with Ashraful Alam – Informal housing infrastructures

    This seminar took place on Thursday 12th April 2024 with senior lecturer in social planning Dr. Ash Alam Abstract: The seminar will outline Ash’s work in informal housing sectors in Bangladesh to show how housing infrastructures in marginalised settings can be reworked by developing a new set of lexicons.  Ash Alam is a Senior Lecturer in Social […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2024/04/03/infur-seminar-with-ashraful-alam-informal-housing-infrastructures

  9. InfUr- Seminar with Patrick Cobbinah — The Oddity of Desiring Informality

    This seminar took place on Thursday 16th November 2023 with Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning Patrick Cobbinah. Abstract: Informality has become central to urban sustainability and one of the most polemically debated topics in modern urban studies and human geography. In this presentation, my main argument is that informality in its current conception does not comprehend fully the […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2023/11/10/the-oddity-of-desiring-informality-with-patrick-cobbinah

  10. InfUr- Seminar and Book Launch with Kim Dovey — The Atlas of Informal Settlement

    This seminar took place on Thursday 19th October 2023. This seminar celebrates the launch of the Atlas of Informal Settlement by Kim Dovey, Matthijs van Oostrum, Tanzil Shafique, Ishita Chatterjee and Elek Pafka. The book is a comparative study of the morphogenesis of 51 contemporary settlements across the globe. It shows how settlement morphology adapts to different contexts of […]

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2023/09/15/seminar-and-book-launch-the-atlas-of-informal-settlement

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