Agenda
The conference will span three days (October 26-28, 2023) and will feature a mix of presentation opportunities — including keynote speakers, panel discussions, small-group facilitated workshops — as well as a morning of Boston site visits on Oct. 28th. Stay tuned for a detailed agenda with the full list of speakers and panelists.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
8:00AM: Registration & Breakfast
8:40AM: Opening Remarks by Loretta Lees and Japonica Brown-Saracino
9:00AM: Panel Sessions:
- Tech, Bio, and Ecological Gentrification
- Quantifying Gentrification and Displacement: Big Data and Other Data
- Anti-Gentrification Policymaking and Other Potential Solutions to Gentrification
- Small Business/Commercial Displacement
- Is there a crystal ball for gentrification? Debating approaches to early warning systems
10:30AM: Break
10:50AM: Plenary Keynote by Sylvie Tissot
12:00PM: Book Exhibits
12:30PM: Lunch Panel: Latin American Gentrification without Displacement, Sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
1:40PM: Fireside Chat: “Gentrification Studies: A Trans-Disciplinary Conversation”
3:00PM: Panel Sessions:
- Partnerships, Collaboration, and Equity
- Small City, Mid-sized City, Suburban, and Rural Gentrification
- Gentrification: Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism
- Gender, Sexualities, and Gentrification
- International Activist Round Table I
4:30PM: Break
4:50PM: Plenary Keynote by Mindy Thompson Fullilove
6:00PM: Opening Reception
Friday, October 27, 2023
7:30AM: Breakfast Mentoring Sessions
8:00AM: Registration & Breakfast
8:40AM: Welcome Back Remarks by Loretta Lees and Japonica Brown-Saracino
9:00AM: Panel Sessions:
- Financialization and the Economics of Gentrification
- Global and Comparative Gentrification
- Homelessness, the Housing Crisis, and Gentrification
- Climate Gentrification
- Gentrification and Policing
10:30AM: Break
10:50AM: Plenary Keynote by Raquel Rolnik
12:00PM: Poster Session
12:30PM: Lunch with Roundtable Discussions
1:40PM: Fireside Chat: “Gentrification: A Planetary Conversation”
3:00PM: Panel Sessions:
- Gentrification through Media: Representations in News Media, Novels, and Film
- Universities/Schools/Families, and Gentrification
- Histories of Gentrification
- Alternatives to Gentrification
- International Activist Roundtable II
4:30PM: Break
4:50PM: Plenary Keynote with Boston Area Activists
Saturday, October 28, 2023
9:00AM-12:00PM: Boston Area Site Visits
Participants will choose which to attend
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
- South End Oral History Project
- East Boston Community Development Corporation
10:00AM-12:00PM: Film Screening [details to follow]