Between September 26-28th听2019 our SSHRC Partnership Grant Project Gender,听Urbanization and the global south: a transformative knowledge network听(GenUrb), hosted a three-day international conference,听Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures听(FEUF) at听91亚色. 听The event was 听funded 听by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 91亚色, and the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography.听 With more than 80 speakers and over 200 attendees, we hosted paper sessions, roundtables, and workshops on themes of:听affective urban cultures;听comparative feminist urban research;听decoloniality;听feminist GIS;听feminist methodologies;听financialization / debt;听gendered mobilities;听housing;听infrastructure;听migration / displacement; place-making;听practices of resistance; 听right to the city; social reproduction;听translation; urban activism;听urban peripheries;听urban policy; and听violence and securitization.
Dr. Clara Han (Johns Hopkins University) gave an opening keynote entitled听Echoes of Death and the Life Story, while Dr. Katherine McKittrick鈥檚 (Queens University) closing keynote was entitled听Living just enough for the City/ Volume VI/ Black Methodology. 听To see both keynotes visit.