Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm Speaker: Dr Matías LandauVenue: Geography Building, Room 126, Mile End campus
The event is co-sponsored by the City Centre at QMUL and Latin American Geographies in the UK (LAG-UK).Matías Landau is prominent Argentine urban and political sociologist, based at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher with Argentina’s CONICET. Author of numerous papers and books on urban politics and Buenos Aires, including Politics and Citizen Participation in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2008, Miño y Dávila) he will be presenting on his recently published book (Prometeo, 2018) entitled "Governing Buenos Aires: City, politics and society, from the 19th Century to the present” that examines the history of governing Buenos Aires from its federalisation in 1880 to today.
For further information please contact: s.halvorsen@qmul.ac.uk