Cultivating connections and exploring intellectually stimulating career options outside the university is not always easy. Yet, listening and talking to people who have pursued a career away from research and education is a crucial catalyst for figuring out where your career path might take you next. The Urban Work webinar series will give the floor to urban experts and workers from across the world and from different fields in order to identify, appreciate and support access to meaningful urban work opportunities beyond academia for urban studies graduates. Each webinar will revolve around the careers of one or more speakers, allowing for an informal discussion on their own career choices and paths taken as well as a critical but concrete reflection on urban work opportunities and labour markets in different cities.
For our fourth webinar in the Urban Work series, we have invited the following two speakers:
Christoph Laimer is editor-in-chief of dérive - Magazine for Urban Research, co-curator of urbanize! Int. Festival for Urban Explorations and part of Bikes and Rails, a self-organized housing project in the habiTAT Tenement Syndikat network. He studied political science and philosophy.
Gautam Bhan teaches at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore, where his research focuses on urban inequality, social protection, housing and southern urban theory. He is most recently the author of In the Public's Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi, and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South.
Registration
The webinar will take place on Tuesday 27 April 10-12 AM (CET) via Zoom. Please register by following this link. Registration deadline is Friday 23 April. Following the deadline, we will select applicants and send out the Zoom webinar link.
The Urban Work webinar series is jointly organised by the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies and the Urban Knowledge Collective.