Talks
September 2021: Università Iuav di Venezia – Regeneration of Military Sites (International Conference) – “Ruin, real estate or heritage: Tracing the after-lives of four UK continuity of government nuclear bunkers built in the late 1980s”. Venice, Italy (Online)
September 2021: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference – “Fortifying the empty ruin: the nightwatchman, the artists, the trespassers and their antagonisms”. London (Online).
June 2021: Sheffield Hallam University – SHU Space & Place Group – Haunts # 4: Atmospheres of Social Haunting. “Building an intentional social haunting?: The Sheffield Cholera Monument”. Sheffield (online)
July 2020: University of Sheffield – Invisible Wounds Symposium – “The many lives of Sheffield’s Cholera Monument”. Sheffield (online)
June 2020: Royal College of Art – Architecture of Loss Symposium – “The many lives of Sheffield’s Cholera Monument”. London (online)
June 2020: Sheffield Hallam University – SHU Space & Place Group Annual Conference – “On confinement: dwelling in the time of COVID-19 symposium”. Sheffield (online)
August 2019: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference – “Stuck in the silos: contamination, dark heritage and the awkward after-life of Greenham Common’s cruise missile facility”. London.
August 2019: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference – “Edge protection at edgy sites: can critical legal geography account for providence in place management?”. London.
July 2019: Sheffield Hallam University – SHU Space & Place Group Conference – “Exploring the Comforts and Discomforts of Dwelling”. Sheffield.
March 2019: Ironbridge Institute of Cultural Heritage – International Conference – “How and when does darkness fade? Exploring fear, fascination and ambivalence with Hitler’s Bunker”. Birmingham.
August 2018: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference – “On hearing the roar of war still trapped inside: the reverberation of wartime trauma, and of the bunker, in Paul Virilio’s analysis of Pure War and Hyperterrorism.” Cardiff.
August 2018: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference – “What really haunts the modern ruin?”. Cardiff.
June 2018: Sheffield Hallam University – People, Place & Policy conference – “Back to the basement: the rehabilitation of subterranean dwelling in the UK”. Sheffield.
April 2018: ‘Difficult Heritage’ – conference – “Grubbing out the Führerbunker: Ruination, demolition and Berlin’s difficult subterranean heritage”. York.
March 2018: Institute of Australian Geographers – Legal Geography Study Group – “Law in Ruins: searching for law in empty spaces”- Keynote presentation – University of Canberra.
September 2017 – AISLE/LAND 2 – Biennial conference – Bunker landscapes panel – Sheffield & York (In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker)
September 2017 – Royal Geographical Society – Annual Conference – the Future of the Bunker // The Bunker of the Future – London (bunkers and the politics of shelter) – organiser
June 2017 – Sheffield Hallam University – the Politics of Place – Sheffield (presencing the politics of place) – organiser
May 2017 – University of Sheffield – Volumetric Urbanism Conference – urban underground panel – Sheffield (cellar dwelling) – invited speaker
April 2017 – University of Bristol – Legal Geography Workshop – Bristol (the limits of legal geography) – organiser
April 2017 – University of Liverpool – Nuclear Humanities Workshop – Nuclear Geographies Panel – Liverpool (Cold War bunkers) – invited speaker
August 2016 – Royal Geographical Society – Annual Conference – ‘Cultural Geologies of Stone’ session – London (meaning making in an abandoned quarry)
June 2016 – Dartington Hall / Schumacher College – Language, Landscape & the Sublime Conference – Totnes (parapets, edge protection and the sublime)
May 2016 – University of Sheffield – Perec’s geographies / Perecquian Geographies Symposium – Sheffield – invited speaker ([post]humanism and urban exploration)
November 2015 – Historic Towns Forum – Museum of London Archaeology Conference – London (archaeology & real estate) – invited speaker
October 2015 – CHAT 2015 (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory) – Sheffield (archaeology & real estate)
October 2015 – University of Sheffield – ‘Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography’, Book Launch – authors’ panel – Sheffield (legal psychogeography) – invited speaker
July 2015 – Royal Geographical Society – International Conference of Historical Geographers 2015 – London (bunkers, networks and property law)
May 2015 – Queen Mary, University of London -‘Mapping Law Globally’ series – London (place, materiality and the vectors of law) – invited speaker
April 2015 – Sheffield Hallam University – Department of Law & Criminology lecture series – Sheffield (law in empty spaces) – invited speaker
April 2015 – University of London, Institute for Historical Research – ‘Empty Spaces’ Conference – London (narrative and history in an abandoned quarry)
March 2015 – University College, London – Institute of Archaeology – ‘Present Futures: Critical Conversations on the ‘Contemporary’ across disciplines’ series – London (entropy and the temporalities of real estate) – invited speaker
February 2015 – Sheffield Hallam University – Dept of the Natural & Built Environment lecture series – Sheffield (ruinphilia and ruinphobia)
January 2015 – University of Sheffield – Transience and Permanence in Urban Development symposium – Sheffield (ruinphilia, ruinphobia and returning the empties to work)
December 2014 – University of Newcastle – Cultural Significance of Place Interdisciplinary Research Group symposium on ‘Non-Places, Digital Worlds and Geographical Imagination’ – Newcastle (valorising non-places) – invited speaker
August 2014 – Royal Geographical Society conference – London (legal materiality in the spatio-legal life cycle of an early cotton mill)
August 2014 – Royal Geographical Society conference – London (bunkers as post traumatic landscape) – organiser
June 2014 – Association of Chief Estates Surveyors – Sheffield (occupiers’ liability and access to public land) – invited speaker
June 2014 – University of Sheffield – Occursus – PlastiCities Conference – Sheffield (urban plasticity in the spatio-legal life cycle of an early cotton mill)
May 2014 – Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Arts Council – ‘Revisiting the Quarry: excavation, legacy, return’ – Wakefield (legal aspects of Land Art in quarries) – invited speaker
May 2014 – University of Manchester, ‘Big Ruins’ conference – Manchester (image, materiality and practice in the fate of modern ruins)
April 2014 – University of Warwick – The Public Life of Private Law (ESRC symposium) – Coventry (habitual signage & accidental territoriality in managing occupiers’ liability) – invited speaker
April 2014 – University of Sheffield, Human Geography Group – Sheffield (bunkerology and the practice of representation) – invited speaker
March 2014 – University of Sheffield – Occursus symposium – Microhabitats – Sheffield (bunkers, men & sheds)
November 2013 – Mineral Products Association – London (stakeholder summit to discuss public safety af former quarry sites – occupiers’ liability and recreational access) – invited speaker
October 2013 – Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents – Salford (National Water Safety Forum conference – analysing judicial attitudes to water accidents) – invited speaker
August 2013 – Royal Geographical Society conference – London (Encountering Strangers Session – disciplinary intersections at Furnace Park)
August 2013 – Royal Geographical Society conference – London (Legal Geography Session – searching for law in abandoned quarries) – organiser
June 2013 – Conserving the 20th Century workshop – London (bunkerology and the practice of representation) – invited speaker
May 2013 – University of Sheffield – Occursus symposium – Post Traumatic Landscapes – Sheffield (contamination, absence and the ghosts of Furnace Park)
May 2013 – Sheffield Hallam University conference – Sheffield (law, information management and the built environment) – organiser
March 2013 – Socio-Legal Studies Association conference – York (mundane law, everyday aesthetics and objectification)
March 2013 – University of Sheffield – Occursus – Art + Law symposium – Sheffield (mundane law, everyday aesthetics and objectification)
November 2012 – British Mountaineering Council conference – Castleton (risk, liability and outdoor adventure) – invited speaker
October 2012 – Leeds Psychogeography Group – Leeds (pavements, psychogeography & mundane law) – invited speaker
July 2012 – Royal Geographical Society conference – Edinburgh (bunkers and geographies of enthusiasm)
June 2012 – Art Sheffield – Work & Art Symposium – Sheffield (noticing ghosts, concrete and mundane law in the built environment)
June 2012 – The Creativity of Property (Anthropology Symposium) – University College, London (law, habitus and the management of shrinking places)
June 2012 – Vacant Property Roundtable – Manchester (metal theft) – invited speaker
May 2012 – Affective Landscapes conference – Derby (bunkers & genre)
February 2012 – Public Sector FM Network – Sheffield (facilities management and liability to trespassers) – invited speaker
January 2012 – Countryside Recreation Network – Edinburgh (access/occupiers’ liability research) – invited speaker
November 2011 – Arboricultural Association (Midlands) – Leicester (trees and public liability) – invited speaker
September 2011 – Centre for Computing & Social Responsibility – ETHICOMP 2011 – Sheffield (the knowledge structures of online urban explorer forums)
September 2011 – RICS – COBRA 2011 – Manchester (on the pragmatics of warning signs)
June 2011 – SHU – Empty Premises Conference – Sheffield (organiser and chairman)
September 2010 – RICS – COBRA 2010 Legal Research Symposium – Paris, France (Judges’ attitudes to the safety of child trespassers)
February 2010 – SHU – The Future of Street Trees Conference – Sheffield (street trees and liability)
November 2009 – RoSPA – National Water Safety Congress – Cardiff (access and liability) – invited speaker
July 2009 – Countryside Recreation Network – Taking a chance outdoors conference – Birmingham (outdoor access, children and fear of liability) – invited speaker
April 2009 – RICS – ROOTS 2009 Conference – Cambridge (access and liability)
June 2008 – Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism – Annual Conference – Manchester (metal theft and the built environment)
June 2008 – Chartered Institute of Wastes Management Annual Conference – Torbay (metal theft and the built environment)
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