PRESENTATIONS

2024

“Encountering everyday structural violence in the Landscape of Informality”
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA — November 7-9

“Boundaries and Control in Ga-Mashie, Accra Ghana”
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI — April 16-20
Also presented at: Urban Affairs Association (UAA) International Conference, New York, NY — April 24-27

2023

“Encountering the landscape of boundaries and control: Preliminary findings from Ga-Mashie, Accra”
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL — October 19-21

“Encountering the landscape of social-structural violence: Preliminary findings from Ga-Mashie, Accra”
Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN — April 26-29

“Encountering the landscape of protest: Preliminary findings from Ga-Mashie, Accra”
15th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference, Rutgers University — March 10
Also presented at: American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO — March 23-27

2022

“Moving from Pandemic adaptation to a mainstream method: Lessons from remote photovoice in Accra”
African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA — November 17-19
Also presented at: ACSP Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada — November 3-5
And: 5th World Planning Schools Congress, Indonesia — August 31

“Encountering landscapes of urban informality through the practice of everyday life”
Shifting Landscape Conference, London School of Economics, UK — June 16-17

2019

“Rethinking informality in planning” (Session Organizer & Presenter)
Panel: “Is defining informality as a problem, a fallacy for planning?”
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference — October

“Methods and findings from two years of fieldwork on informality”
Effective States and Inclusive Development Conference, University of Manchester, UK — September 9-11

“Contrasting two experiences of urban villages in India: Sikanderpur and Ekta Vihar”
Urban China Collective Conference, University of Pennsylvania — April 15

Roundtable Moderator: “Informality as a Way of Life: Challenges to Sustainable Urban Development”
Penn Institute for Urban Research & Perry World House — April 24

2018

“What happens when villages get swallowed up by cities?”
ACSP Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY — October 25-28
Also presented at: 9th World Urban Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — February 9

Photograph: Kochi (Cochin), Kerala, India, April 2009