Agustin Cocola-Gant, University of Lisbon
March 7th 2024 | 4 pm | Aula Fanfani (5th floor)
Short-Term Rentals and Touristification in Southern European Cities
A political economic explanation of touristification and a discussion about the touristic use of housing and the conversion of places into tourist districts.

Filippo Celata, Sapienza University of Rome
March 20th 2024 | 4 pm | Aula Fanfani (5th floor)
Reclaming 'Other' Critical Traditions: Geografia Democratica
A critical reading of the controversial history and legacy of a collective of scholars that during the 1970s sought to promote a critical turn in Italian geography.

Lidia Manzo, University of Milan
April 11th 2024 | 4 pm | Aula Fanfani (5th floor)
Gentrification and Diversity
Limits, ambiguities, and practices of resistance to gentrification in the multi-ethnic community of Milan Chinatown, examining the role of urban diversity in redefining inclusion.

Amy Horton, University College London
May 9th 2024 | 4 pm | Aula Fanfani (5th floor)
Feminist Economic Geographies of Social Infrastructures
A talk about care work, fundamental yet deeply undervalued, using the concept of social infrastructure to recognise the role of place and interaction.

Doing Feminist Economic Geographies
June 3rd 2024 | 10-18 | Sala Lauree (2nd floor)
Katherine Brickell, King’s College London;
Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester;
Miriam Tola, John Cabot University;
Marcella Corsi, Sapienza
One-day event with feminist scholars aimed at reflecting on the methodological, ethical, and intellectual implications of doing feminist research in practice.

Alberto Vanolo, University of Turin
June 10th 2024 | 4pm | Aula Master (5th floor)
The Nocturnal Gaze and the Geographies of the Urban Night
How to think about the specificities of the urban night in a world where urbanisation is everywhere and where the nocturnal has been largely subsumed by the diurnal.

Filippo Menga, University of Bergamo
June 20th 2024 | 4 pm | Aula Fanfani (5th floor)
Thirst: The Global Quest to Solve the Water Crisis
Building on a critique of the drivers and responses to the water crisis and their contradictions, the presentation interrogates who and what is shaping global water governance
 

DEPARTMENT MEMOTEF | PhD Curriculum in Economic Geography and Territorial Statistics
Faculty of Economics | Sapienza University | Via del Castro Laurenziano 9 – 00161 Rome
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