Lunch Hour Lecture: London's Queer Infrastructure
How have movements for LGBTQ+ rights and equality connected with the governance of cities? How do these populations, and the venues and neighbourhoods they identify with, feature in urban planning and development? Why do mayors march in Pride parades? Date: 27th April, 2021. About the speaker: Ben Campkin, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism in The Bartlett School of Architecture and Co-Director of UCL’s transdisciplinary Urban Laboratory. Ben Campkin is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism in The Bartlett School of Architecture and Co-Director of UCL’s transdisciplinary Urban Laboratory. Ben has been researching urban change for two decades and is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (2013), a history of regeneration from the 1920s to the Olympics, which won the 2015 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation prize. He is currently completing a monograph, Queer Premises (Zed/Bloomsbury), on LGBTQ+ venues in London, from the 1980s to the present. On this theme, recent activities have included co-editing Sexuality and Gender at Home (Bloomsbury, 2017), co-authoring LGBTQ+ Cultural Infrastructure in London (2017), a report that has had wide influence on mayoral and planning policies, co-curating Whitechapel Art Gallery’s archival exhibition, Queer Spaces, London: 1980s–Today; and leading the UK project within the Humanities in the European Research Area EU research collaboration, Night-spaces, Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe. Free to attend, live stream or watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7vFbAmvRA&t=11s More info: events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLMinds #MadeAtUCL