Queering Urbanism series: Queer Futurity (in-person registration)

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UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment

Join us for a seminar exploring queer futurity through the lens of spatial and environmental imaginaries.

Bentham House G20 Seminar Room

This Queering Urbanism seminar will examine how modes of queer futurity engage with the future, particularly when the pandemic and climate change have highlighted the &#x27;queerness&#x27; of this future. Tim Waterman, Acting Director of Architecture History and Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, will be in conversation with Sarah Ensor, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bringing a nuanced and varied approach to thinking through queer futurity in today&#x27;s world. Together they will discuss how we plan, design, and build futures which centre the environment, community, and care.

<h2>A﻿bout the speakers</h2>Tim Waterman, Professor of Landscape Theory and Acting Director of Architecture History and Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL)Tim Waterman&#x27;s research explores imaginaries - moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian - of power and democracy and how they shape of public space and public life. His most recent book is The Landscape of Utopia: Writings about Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design. Sarah Ensor, Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sarah Ensor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also a Faculty Associate in the Center for Culture, History, and Environment at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Her work engages the intersections between queer and environmental thought in American literature from the nineteenth century through the present. Her current book project, Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care at Future’s End (under contract with NYU Press), asks what contemporary environmentalism’s seemingly necessary emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable, and turns to two periods of &quot;queer extinction&quot; to demonstrate how temporariness and (apparent) futurelessness can engender, rather than preclude, forms of community, persistence, and care. With Susan Scott Parrish, she is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment, which was published in 2022.

<h2>How to join this event</h2>T﻿his Queering Urbanism event will take place in-person at Bentham House Seminar Room G20 and online on Zoom. Register here via Eventbrite to attend in-person. For accessibility information and how to find us, visit the <a href="https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/bentham-house#b7a53f22-f35b-5148-820b-daed68dc81cc" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bentham House AccessAble page</a>.To join us online, please register directly via this link on <a href="https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-ippjIvH9wdnZBGUFzv-VnXsMdrN6Qs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zoom</a>.

<h2>About the Queering Urbanism series</h2>Queering Urbanism is an online and hybrid event series initiated by B.Queer, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment’s network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) students, staff and allies.  Organised by Sé Tunnacliffe, Jordana Ramalho and Ben Campkin, the series connects queer and trans studies to urban studies and practices of urbanism. It foregrounds issues of equity, diversity and inclusion in the built environment.

For any questions about this event, please email Dr Lo Marshall (they/them) at lo.marshall@ucl.ac.uk.

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