The City Centre

Welcome to the City Centre

Our affiliate members include staff, researchers, visiting scholars and postgraduate students at Queen Mary as well as The University of London in Paris (ULIP). The City Centre has a dedicated seminar room in the School of Geography that can be used for teaching, meetings and events.

We welcome inquiries from prospective students and researchers, particularly those whose work aligns with any of our current research themes. Outside parties are also encouraged to contact us with ideas for collaboration or partnership. 

Events

Crowds, Affects Cities

• 2020-21 Seminar Series, in collaboration with the QMUL Centre for the History of Emotions 

Covid-19 has caused widespread disruption to the pleasures and possibilities of gathering in cities, bringing new forms of anxiety to urban encounters and witnessing crowd scenes, whether lockdown protests or the jubilant celebrations after the US election. As we make do in this time of social distancing, this series provides an opportunity to assemble (online) and reflect on the intensities, emotions and experiences of urban crowds. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, seminars will entail 35 minute presentations with time for questions and discussion to follow. Anyone interested is welcome to join.

Email Regan Koch to register your interest and recieve the recurring Zoom link for each sesson. 

16^th December 8pm.  Dr Ben Gook, History, University of Melbourne

Collectivity and Affect in Crisis Times: Dancing in Berlin, 1989-2020

 2^nd December 1-2pm.  Dr Illan Wall, Law, Warwick University

The State of Unrest: Crowds, Protests, Atmospheres. 

Mitigation or Adaption: Hard Choices for Cities

• Seminar with Professor Richard Sennett, 25 June 2020

 The City in a Time of Social Distancing

• Seminar with Professor Alan Latham (UCL), Anna-Louise Milne (ULIP) and AbdouMaliq Simone (Sheffield), 14 May 2020