When: Thursday, February, 18th, 2016, 6.30pm

Where: Open School East, The Rose Lipman Building, 43 De Beauvoir Road, London, N1 5SQ

Making Home: Reflections of Squatting, Protest and Private Property

with

Lucy Finchett-Maddock (University of Sussex) and Matt Fish (SOAS)

This is the second in the Radical Cultural Studies series of research seminars organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London in partnership with Open School East, showcasing authors and collaborators (and invited guests) who are contributors to CCSR's Radical Cultural Studies book series, published by Rowman & Littlefield International.

All seminars are free and all are welcome. We welcome enquiries from potential authors. Please see our web page on the RLI site for details of the series and proposal template.

Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock is a lecturer in law at the University of Sussex. Lucy’s work predominantly focuses on the intersection of property within law and resistance, locating adverse possession (squatting) as a space for the other within English land law, interrogating the spatio-temporality of property in relative estates and 'limitations' periods of possession in land.  Her work also looks to broader questions around law, resistance, legal and illegal understandings of art, aesthetics and politics.

Matt Fish is an ESRC-funded social-anthropology PhD candidate under the supervision of Parvathi Raman and Marloes Jansen at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research is concerned with alternative forms of dwelling and experimental placemaking in the city, focusing specifically on the squatting community in London, and the sorts of radical subjectivities engendered by this kind of relationship to the urban environment.