Speakers
Plenary Keynote Addresses
Gentrification: A Transdisciplinary Conversation
Led by Japonica Brown Saracino
Gentrification: A Planetary Conversation
Led by Loretta Lees
Boston Organizers, Practitioners, & Policymakers: A Plenary Panel
Latin American Gentrification without Displacement
Panel Sessions
Tech, Bio, and Ecological Gentrification
Location: HIL Bay State
Chair: Ingmar Pastak, University of Tartu
Discussant: Johan Pries, Lund University
Panelists:
- Manissa Maharawal, American University
- Mieko Tarrius, Concordia University
- Tianyi Tang, University of Glasgow
Quantifying Gentrification and Displacement: Big Data and Other Data
Location: CDS 1101
Chair: Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
Discussant: Keren Horn, UMass Boston
Panelists:
- Isabelle Anguelovski, University Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
- Jiaqi Wang, University of Cambridge
- Kasey Zapatka, University of California, Berkeley
Anti-Gentrification Policymaking and Other Potential Solutions to Gentrification
Location: CDS 701
Chair: Lisa Bates, Portland State University
Discussant: Dominic Moulden, Organizing Neighborhood Equity – ONE DC
Panelists:
- Emilia Oscilowicz, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Sciences / University of Colorado Denver
- Raul Marino-Zamudio, Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota
- Safaa Monqid, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Jacob Boersema, New York University
Small Business/Commercial Displacement
Location: CDS 950
Chair: Willow Lung-Amam, University of Maryland, College Park
Discussants:
- Pooja Paode, Cambridge Local First
- Mahesh Somashekhar, University of Illinois-Chicago
Panelists:
- Will Payne, Rutgers University
- Karina Santellano, Arizona State University
- Hesu Yoon, Stanford University
- Hakeem Bishi, Concordia University
Is there a crystal ball for gentrification? Debating approaches to early warning systems
Location: CDS 1646
Chair/Discussant: George McCarthy, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Panelists:
- Reina Chano Murray, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto
- Galia Shokry, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Partnerships, Collaboration, and Equity
Location: CDS 701
Chair: Derek Hyra, American University
Discussant: Dominic Moulden, Organizing Neighborhood Equity – ONE DC
Panelists:
- Brian Doucet, University of Waterloo & Aleksandra Petrovic, University of Waterloo
- Ryan Chao, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
- Alessandro Busà, University of Leicester
- Joshua Silver, San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department & Jacqueline Bryant, A. Phillip Randolph Institute — San Francisco
Small City, Mid-sized City, Suburban, and Rural Gentrification
Location: CDS 950
Chair/Discussant: Martin Phillips, University of Leicester
Panelists:
- Aseem Inam, Cardiff University
- Kristin Perkins, Georgetown University
- Hyojung Lee, Virginia Tech
- Demar Lewis IV, University of Maryland
- Kristen Ounanian, Aalborg University
Gentrification: Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism
Location: CDS 1646
Chair: Rebekah Israel Cross, University of Chicago
Discussants:
- Jessica Parish, De Montfort University, Centre for Urban Research on Austerity
- Manissa M Maharawal, American University
Panelists:
- Carolina Sternberg, DePaul University
- Jiyoung Kim, Paris Nanterre University
- Shannon Whittaker, Yale University
- Nemoy Lewis, Toronto Metropolitan University
Gender, Sexualities, and Gentrification
Location: CDS 1101
Chair: Landon Lauder, Boston University
Discussant: Julie Podmore, Concordia University
Panelists:
- Amalia Calderón-Argelich, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Ryan Centner, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Reha Atakan Cetin, University of Florida
- Joe Gallegos, University of California, Irvine
Financialization and the Economics of Gentrification
Location: CDS 701
Chair: Emily Barrett, Vanderbilt University
Discussants:
- Andrew Binet, University of British Columbia
- devin michelle bunten, MIT
Panelists:
- Holden Taylor, CUNY Graduate Center
- Ayşegül Can, Istanbul Medeniyet University
- Andrew Crosby, University of Waterloo
Global and Comparative Gentrification
Location: CDS 1646
Chair: Stefano Pagin Paredes De Abreu, University of Leicester
Discussants:
- Hyun Bang Shin, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Dicle Kizildere, Gebze Technical University
Panelists:
- Brian Rosa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Daniela Perleche Ugás, Columbia University
- Sagar Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
- Lewis Abedi Asante, Kumasi Technical University
Homelessness, the Housing Crisis, and Gentrification
Location: CDS 264
Chair: Katherine Levine Einstein, Boston University
Discussant: Molly Richard, Boston University
Panelists:
- Iris Zhang, Stanford University
- Diana Negron, University of Pennsylvania
- Hélène Bélanger, Université du Québec à Montréal
Climate Gentrification
Location: CDS 1101
Chair: Isabelle Anguelovski, University Autònoma de Barcelona
Discussant: Alessandro Busà, University of Leicester
Panelists:
- Edyta Laszkiewicz, University of Lodz
- Kelsea Best, The Ohio State University
- Joe Sánchez, University of East London
Gentrification and Policing
Location: CDS 950
Chair: Brenden Beck, Rutgers University
Discussant: Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California Washington Center
Panelists:
- Hadas Zur, Harvard University
- James Rodriguez, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Mirtha Lorena del Castillo Durand, Center for Latin American Research and Documentation
- Diego Taboada, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Gentrification through Media: Representations in News Media, Novels, and Film
Location: CDS 701
Chair: Catalina Neculai, Coventry University
Discussant: Kenton Card, Boston University
Panelists:
- Sanjukta Sattar, University of Mumbai
- Marie-Pierre Vincent, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, SUNY Albany
- Catalina Neculai, Coventry University
Universities/Schools/Families, and Gentrification
Location: HIL Bay State
Chair: Agustina Laurito, University of Illinois Chicago
Discussant:
- J Coley, Syracuse University
Panelists:
- Ariel H. Bierbaum, University of Maryland
- Robert Vief, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Darren Smith, Loughborough University
- Agustina Laurito, University of Illinois Chicago
Histories of Gentrification
Location: CDS 1646
Chair: John Lauermann, Pratt Institute
Discussants:
- Suleiman Osman, George Washington University
- Johanna Bockman, George Mason University
Panelists:
- J. Revel Sims, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California Washington Center
- Richard Martin, University of Georgia
- Christie Batson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Alternatives to Gentrification
Location: CDS 1101
Chair: Andrew Ward, Boston University
Discussant: Suzanne Lee, Chinatown Community Land Trust
Panelists:
- Aaron Passell, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Jordan Packer, The New School
- Anthony Guidotti, Harvard University
- Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, University of New Orleans
Solutions to Gentrification through Activism (Virtual)
Location: CDS 950
Chair: Stefano Portelli, University of Leicester
Panelists:
- Jess Nguyen & Amanda Luo, Viet Place Collective (Falls Church, VA, USA)
- Rita Silva, University of Coimbra & Eduardo Ascensao, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
- Elisa Sutanudajaja, Rujak Center for Urban Studies (Jakarta, Indonesia)
- Daniel Manyasi, Single Mother’s Association of Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Mara Cossu and ETICity (Rome, Italy)
- Renato Cymbalista, University of Sao Paulo & Fundofica (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Isaac Rose & Richard Goulding, Greater Manchester Tenants Union (Manchester, UK)
