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You will need to register separately for both days via the links provided. 

1030 Welcome and Introduction – Beth Perry (Urban Institute) and Michele Lancione (Beyond Inhabitation Lab)

Session 1 - Contested Urban Spaces (1100)

Speakers (15 minutes each)

• Yichi Zhang - Life behind the Wire: the Chinese Shopkeepers in Downtown Kingston, Jamaica
• Francisco Calafate-Faria and Sam Johnson-Schlee - Home and the World: Energy Retrofit and the Planetary Imaginary
• Cloe St-Hilaire - Epistemic engulfment by proptech and finance in Canadian housing
• Atriya Dey - Ways of Knowing the City: Informality, Urban Inhabitation and Epistemic Justice (online)

Discussant Response (10 minutes)

• Chiara Iacovone

Dialogue (35 min)

============== 1245 Lunch ==============

Session 2 - Everyday Practices and Imaginative Speculations (1330)

Speakers (15 minutes each)

• Aireen Grace Andal - Inhabiting otherwise and everything else in-between: Children’s creation of fictional cities from crayons to reimagining urban dwelling
• Alana Osbourne - Title TBC
• Elsa Noterman - Inhabiting speculation
• Josefina Jaureguiberry-Mondion - Imperfect Affective Infrastructures: The Politics of Inconvenience in Radical Housing Projects

Discussant Response (10 minutes)

• Elliot Rossiter

Dialogue (35 min)

============== 1515 Break  ==============

Session 3 - Rethinking Urban Knowledge Production in South Asia (1530)

Speakers (15 minutes each)

• Saba Aslam - Situating urban inhabitation in Karachi through water infrastructures
• Aseela Haque and Saanchi Saxena - Street Vending Geographies: Towards new epistemic vocabularies of urban inhabitation (online)
• Vidushi Shukla - Paradoxical Spaces as Epistemic Frame: Reading Material Cultures of Balconies in Contemporary Delhi (online)
• Adam Abdullah - Home Wasn’t Built in a Day: Entanglements and Contestations of Temporal Knowledge, Discourse and Practice in the Southern City (online)

Discussant Response (10 minutes)

• Devra Waldman

Dialogue (35 min)

============== 1715 Close ==============

Session 4 - Inhabitation through the Margins (0900)

Speakers (15 minutes each)

• Olivia Casagrande - Dark, buried and very India. Indigenous urban inhabitation and fluvial epistemic alternatives
• Mine Yildirim - Unruly epistemologies, affective infrastructures, volatile cohabitation: Encounters between dogs and humans along the margins of Istanbul
• Margherita Grazioli - Inhabitation beyond dwelling in the polycrisis: the habitability crisis as method
• Noreen Fatima - From Wilderness to Home and Everything in-between: Settling with the settlement in Delhi’s (online)

Discussant Response (10 minutes)

• Eleanor Wilkinson

Dialogue (35 min)

============== 1045 Break ==============

Session 5 - Thinking with Situated Knowledges (1115)

Speakers (15 minutes each)

• Asa Roast - Speculative mapping of empty spaces: wastelands and dungeon epistemologies
• Niranjana Ramesh - Knowing polluted waters: cosmopolitical inhabitation at the littoral
• Caterina Sartori - Towards a collaborative epistemology of fragments
• Jason Katz and Camillo Boano - Occupy Surplus-value-of-life: A destituent planning grammar for rethinking value in precarious territories (online)

Discussant Response (10 minutes)

• Sharda Rozena

Dialogue (35 min) 

============== 1300 Lunch ==============

Session 6 - The Epistemic Work of Making Livelihoods (1345)

Speakers (15 minutes each)

• Suraya Scheba and Andreas Scheba - Title TBC (online)
• Tanuj Luthra - Medicine in the Margins: Informal Health Providers, Tajurba, and the Work of Care in Delhi
• Vidya Pancholi and Graham Jeffery - Co-produced cartographies from below for knowing and attending the city: a case of informal waste recycling in Dharavi and beyond
• Harry Pettit - The Politics of Cash Circulation and Epistemic Tangles of Work in Beirut

Discussant Response (10 minutes)

• Snehashish Mitra

Dialogue (35 min)

============== 1530 Break and close for online participants ==============

1545 Special Issue Discussion

============== 1700 Close ==============