Presentations

MUSSI Fellowship Series - Is this a city that cares? Dr Lidia C Manzo

This seminar places care at the heart of the debate on our current housing crisis. It thus explores how care circulates in a gendered, embodied way through social housing and offers a new agenda for reform based on this view.

MEETme TONIGHT

EU Researchers' Night 2021, September 24
(in Italian)

Organized conference tracks and seminars

2022, May 18-20 | Limerick, Ireland
Session Co-organizer and discussant: Social Housing in the aftermath of Covid-19 for Conference of Irish Geographers.

2021, November 24 | Milan, Italy
Seminar Organizer: Ambivalent and Consistent Relationships: The Role of Personal Networks in Cases of Domestic Violence by Elisa Bellotti, Manchester University for “Dialogues” seminar series of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.       


2018, July 16 | Toronto, Canada
Session Co-organizer and discussant: Putting the Financialisation of Housing in the ‘Rights’ Place: A Multi-Scalar Perspective for ISA World Congress of Sociology.

2018, May 8-9 | Maynooth, Ireland

International Workshop organizer, panel discussant, and fieldtrip leader: Post-Crash Cities: Housing Financialisation, late-Neoliberalism and Community Responses for Conference of Irish Geographers.          

Key international conference presentations

2022 August | Athens, Greece

Defaming Narratives: Poverty, Territorial Stigma and Residents Pride of Place in Inner City Dublin

for RC21 2022 conference

2022, May 19 | Limerick, Ireland
"It's not good for the SOUL. It's not good for the HEART. It's not good for the HEAD": Social housing regeneration, health and public action in Dublin for Conference of Irish Geographers.

2022 March 1 | New York, USA ONLINE 

“It’s not good for the SOUL. It’s not good for the HEART. It’s not good for the HEAD”. CITY-OF-CARE: a Gendered perspective on the Financialization of Social Housing for AAG 2022 annual meeting


2021 September 24 | Milan, Italy  ONLINE
Ed io avrò cura di te! Prospettive di genere e solidarietà nell’abitare popolare for MEET ME TONIGHT public talk for the EU researchers night organized by the University of Milan on the CITY-OF-CARE research project.


2021 September, 14 | Vienna, Austria
Resisting gentrification and advocating for a fair regeneration: the “We are sick of waiting” media campaign and its impact on the Oliver Bond flats community for IBA Lab.


2021 April 9 | Seattle, USA ONLINE
CITY-OF-CARE: a Gendered perspective on the Financialization of Social Housing for AAG 2021 annual meeting         
2019 June 12 | Leicester, UK
"Bond Girls": Women's Relationalities of Care in Austerity Ireland, Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA).  

2018 May 12 | Maynooth, Ireland
Reciprocity, Community, and Commodification of (social) Housing in Dublin for Conference of Irish Geographers 2018.

2018 May 11 | Maynooth, Ireland
Contested Narratives: the Commodification of History and Class in Dublin’s Liberties for Conference of Irish Geographers.

2018 May 9 | Maynooth, Ireland
“People helping one another when you have nothing”. How ethnography still counters myths about the urban poor after the crash for Post-Crash Cities Workshop: Housing Financialisation, late-Neoliberalism and Community Responses.

2017 May 5-7 | Cork, Ireland
Community Asset-Building for Gentrification Pressure Alleviation in Disadvantaged Areas. The case of Dublin’s Liberties for Conference of Irish Geographers.

2017 April 5-9 | Boston, USA
Lived experiences of resistance and solidarity among working-class communities in Dublin’s post-crash gentrification for AAG 2017 Annual Meeting.              

2016 June 16-18 | Turin, Italy
Gentrification ‘Suspended’? Variegated effects of actually-existing neoliberalism in the aftermath of Dublin’s crisis, co-authored with Sinéad Kelly, for EU
RA Conference.