Rent Cultures Network: 'Housing Harm' Panel
PAST EVENT | 23 February 2024 18:00 - 23 February 2024 19:00
Please join us for the first Oxford-based event of the Rent Cultures Network—co-led by Ushashi Dasgupta, Fellow in English at Pembroke.
We're delighted to invite you to a conversation on 'Housing Harm' on Friday 23rd February, 6pm, the Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford. Dr. Ciara Breathnach (History, University of Limerick) and Dr. Sharda Rozena (Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield) will share their perspectives on housing, danger, and negligence. Ushashi Dasgupta (English, Pembroke, Oxford) and Matt Ingleby (English, QMUL) will chair.
Ciara's most recent, award-winning book, Ordinary Lives, Death and Social Class: Dublin Coroner's Court, 1876-1902, offers a fascinating window into Irish history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: it is the first book to examine the history of the City of Dublin's coroner's court, and asks what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban—and domestic—living. Sharda has worked widely and brilliantly on contemporary housing issues in Kensington. Her current project, 'The Last Place: Thinking Through the Implications of Security of Tenure', is using ethnographic life histories of the last regulated tenants in the UK to consider the past, present, and future of rent control.
We hope you can join us for what promises to be a broad-ranging and important discussion. Please get in touch with Ushashi (ushashi.dasgupta@ell.ox.ac.uk) if you'd like to find out more, or if you want to join our mailing list.
For more information on the network, read its recent feature in The Guardian here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Image credit: The Real Faces of the Royal Borough, an online exhibition by Sharda Rozena and Nevada Lynn
Rent Cultures Network: 'Housing Harm' Panel
PAST EVENT | 23 February 2024 18:00 - 23 February 2024 19:00
Please join us for the first Oxford-based event of the Rent Cultures Network—co-led by Ushashi Dasgupta, Fellow in English at Pembroke.
We're delighted to invite you to a conversation on 'Housing Harm' on Friday 23rd February, 6pm, the Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford. Dr. Ciara Breathnach (History, University of Limerick) and Dr. Sharda Rozena (Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield) will share their perspectives on housing, danger, and negligence. Ushashi Dasgupta (English, Pembroke, Oxford) and Matt Ingleby (English, QMUL) will chair.
Ciara's most recent, award-winning book, Ordinary Lives, Death and Social Class: Dublin Coroner's Court, 1876-1902, offers a fascinating window into Irish history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: it is the first book to examine the history of the City of Dublin's coroner's court, and asks what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban—and domestic—living. Sharda has worked widely and brilliantly on contemporary housing issues in Kensington. Her current project, 'The Last Place: Thinking Through the Implications of Security of Tenure', is using ethnographic life histories of the last regulated tenants in the UK to consider the past, present, and future of rent control.
We hope you can join us for what promises to be a broad-ranging and important discussion. Please get in touch with Ushashi (ushashi.dasgupta@ell.ox.ac.uk) if you'd like to find out more, or if you want to join our mailing list.
For more information on the network, read its recent feature in The Guardian here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Image credit: The Real Faces of the Royal Borough, an online exhibition by Sharda Rozena and Nevada Lynn