Past Years
2024, Honolulu: Professor Dallas Rodgers (University of Sydney) with discussants Professor Anne Bonds (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Professor Marina Karides (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
2023, Denver: Professor Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo) with discussants Dr Asher Ghertner (Rutgers University) and Professor Ayonna Datta (University College London)
2022, New York City: Professor Laura Pulido (University of Oregon) with discussants Dr Margerat Marietta Ramirez (Simon Fraser University) and Dr Rea Zaimi (Georgia State University).
2021, Seattle: Fulong Wu (University College London) “The long shadow of the state: financializing the Chinese city“, with discussants Heather Whiteside (University of Waterloo) and Manuel Aalbers (KU Leuven).
2020 Cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
2019, Wahsington DC: Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto) “Following the infrastructures of empire“, with discussants Malini Ranganathan (American University) and Kate Derickson (University of Minnesota).
2018, New Orleans: Roger Keil (York University, Toronto) “After Suburbia“, with discussants Lynnell Thomas (University of Massachusetts Boston) and Elvin Wyly (University of British Columbia)
2017, Boston: Susan Fainstein (Harvard University) “Resilience and the just city”
2016, San Francisco: Robert Lake (Rutgers University) “On poetry, pragmatism and the urban possibility of creative democracy”, with discussants Katharine Hankins (Georgia State University) and Mark Purcell (University of Washington-Seattle)
2015, Chicago: Ananya Roy (University of California-Berkeley) “What is urban about critical urban theory?”, with discussants Kate Derickson (University of Minnesota) and Linda Peake (York University)
2014, Tampa: Ayona Datta (University of Leeds) “The intimate city: violence, gender, and ordinary life in Delhi slums”, with discussants Asher Ghertner (Rutgers University) and Rupal Oza (Hunter College)
2013, Los Angeles: Susan Ruddick (University of Toronto) “Situating the Anthropocene: planetary urbanization and the anthropological machine”, with discussants John Paul Jones (University of Arizona) and Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford)
2012, New York: Anna Secor (University of Kentucky) “Topological city”, with discussants Jennifer Fluri (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Lynn Staeheli (Durham University)
2011, Seattle: Nicholas Blomley (Simon Fraser University) “Colored rabbits, dangerous trees and public sitting: sidewalks, police and the city”, with discussants Nicholas Dahmann (University of Southern California) and Deborah Martin (Clark University)
2010, Washington: Jennifer Robinson (University College London) “The travels of neoliberalism: taking stock of the internationalization of urban theory”, with discussants Carolyn Cartier (University of Technology Sydney) and Patricia Ehrkamp (University of Kentucky)
2009, Las Vegas: AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths) “On intersections, anticipations, and provisional publics: remaking district life in Jakarta”, with discussants Pablo Bose (University of Vermont) and Cindi Katz (City University New York)
2008, Boston: Michael Brown (University of Washington-Seattle) “Public health as urban politics, urban geography: Venereal biopower in Seattle, 1943-1983”, with discussants Rachel Slocum (St Cloud State University) and Roger Keil (York University, Toronto)
2007, San Francisco: Melissa Wright (Penn State University) “Femicide, mother-activism, and the geography of protest in northern Mexico”, with discussants Fernando Bosco (San Diego State University) and Geraldine Pratt (University of British Columbia)
2006, Chicago: Jamie Peck (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Liberating the city: Between New York and New Orleans”, with discussants Laura Liu (New School) and Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington-Seattle)