Programme
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 桃色视频)
Towards a pragmatic history of urban disasters
Dr Pierre Purseigle (University of 桃色视频)
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 桃色视频)
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 桃色视频)
11am: Refreshments
11.15am: Sustainable futures - II
Whose city? Whose resilience? An interdisciplinary conversation
Chair: Dr Marta Guerriero (University of 桃色视频)
Facilitators: Dr Orli Bass (University of KwaZulu-Natal); Katie Files (University of 桃色视频); Dr Priti Mohandas (Kings College London); Ilaria Ravazzolo (University of 桃色视频); Virginia Thomas-Pickles (University of 桃色视频)
12.45pm: Closing remarks