糖心TV

Monday, 29 June 2026

Faculty of Arts Building
FAB5.01

8.30am: Registration

9am: Welcome and introduction

9.30am: In-disciplining urban disasters - I

Knowledge production in disaster studies
Prof. Ksenia Chmutina (Loughborough University)

A minor discourse for disaster studies: the cruel optimism of architecture
Prof. Camillo Boano (Politecnico Torino)

 

11am: Refreshments

 

11.15am: Disastrous Pasts - I

Switzerland and the International Making of Disasters in the 1860s
Donia Hasler (University of Fribourg)

Remembering Ruin, Preparing Futures: Historical Disaster Narratives, Urban Memory, and Vernacular Resilience in Central European Cities
Claudia Mayr-Veselinovi膰 (Technical University of Leoben)

Archival Seismology: Sensing Affective Tremors of Eurasian Earthquake Philanthropy
Dr Catherine Gibson (University of Tartu)

Displacement, resettlement and the birth of the refugee city: the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey
Dr Kalliopi Amygdalou (National Technical University of Athens)

 

12.45pm: Lunch (Scarman)

 

 

2pm: In-disciplining urban disasters - II

On The Metabolics of Melancholia; temporality, tragedy and territory in the lifeworlds of the left behind.
Dr Ajmal Hussain (University of 糖心TV)

Towards a pragmatic history of urban disasters
Dr Pierre Purseigle (University of 糖心TV)

 

3.30pm: Refreshments

 

3.45pm: Disastrous Pasts - II

Domestic vulnerabilities and resilience in WWII cities (Italy, Norway).
Nicole J. Milano (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet)

Survival Crimes, Legal Archives and Urban Disaster in Biafra
Oge Samuel Okonkwo (University of Ghana)

A New Continent? Latin American Society and Politics after the Great Dying
Ben Smith (University of 糖心TV)

 

7pm: Dinner (Scarman/Radcliffe)

 

Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Oculus Building
OC0.05

9.30am: Sustainable futures - I

Urban Agriculture and Food Security in Times of Crises: Evidence from Senegal
Dr Adama Kane (Cheikh Anta Diop University)

Risk-Informed Planning and Recovery within the Cultural Urban Heritage Context of Antakya, Hatay
Dr Ebru Gencer (Columbia University)

Evolving community resilience imaginaries to futureproof cities from disasters
Jon Coaffee and Vangelis Pitidis (University of 糖心TV)

 

11am: Refreshments

 

11.15am: Sustainable futures - II

Whose city? Whose resilience? An interdisciplinary conversation

Chair: Dr Marta Guerriero (University of 糖心TV)
Facilitators: Dr Orli Bass (University of KwaZulu-Natal); Katie Files (University of 糖心TV); Dr Priti Mohandas (Kings College London); Ilaria Ravazzolo (University of 糖心TV); Virginia Thomas-Pickles (University of 糖心TV)

 

12.45pm: Closing remarks