Queering Urbanism series: Queer Futurity
In this hybrid seminar, 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's world.
Queering Urbanism series: Queer Futurity
03 May 2023, 16:00 – 18:00
Join us for a seminar exploring queer futurity through the lens of spatial and environmental imaginaries.
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 ‘queerness’ 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’s world. Together they will discuss how we plan, design, and build futures which centre the environment, community, and care.
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.
How to join this event
This Queering Urbanism event will take place in-person at Bentham House Seminar Room G20 and online on Zoom.
Register via Eventbrite to attend in-person. For accessibility information and how to find us, visit the Bentham House AccessAble page.
To join us online, please register directly on Zoom.
For any questions about this event, please email Dr Lo Marshall (they/them) at lo.marshall@ucl.ac.uk.
Tim Waterman
Professor of Landscape Theory and Acting Director of Architecture History and Theory
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL)
Tim Waterman'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 "queer extinction" 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.
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes
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