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OUR KIND OF TOWN PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES LIVINGMAPS NETWORK in association with URBAN LAB UCL presents QUEER(y)ING LONDON With Ben Campkin and Emma Spruce March 22 6- 8 pm Room 6.02, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB TICKETS 7.50 and 5.00 ( concessions) Booking Eventbrite Code: http://bit.ly/OKOTMAR We have invited two leading scholar activists to draw on their recent research to queery received notions of London as a playground of gender transgression and fluidity and to explore what might be added to a Citizen’s Atlas from a more grounded and critical LGTBQ+ perspective on cultural cartography. Ben Campkin is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture(IB Tauris, 2013), which won the Urban Communication Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Award, 2015. He is co-editor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (IB Tauris, 2007), the series Urban Pamphleteer (2013-), Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies(IB Tauris, 2016) and Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression(Bloomsbury, May 2017). Ben is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and has been Director of UCL’s Urban Laboratory since 2011. Emma Spruce is a Fellow in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights at LSE’s Department of Gender Studies. She recently completed doctoral work exploring LGBTQ experience in Brixton, which drew on three years of qualitative research to examine the imbrication of local, national and transnational discourses in framing both spaces of homophobia, and spaces of sexual tolerance. Her published work includes ‘Bigot Geography: Queering Geopolitics in Brixton’, in Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2016), and ‘(It’s not all) Kylie Concerts, Exotic Cocktails and Gossip in The SAGE handbook of feminist theory (Sage, 2014). FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan