EVICT seminar on urban sustainability, inclusion, and resilience

EVICT Seminar on urban sustainability, inclusion, and resilience

On January 18, the EVICT team will organise a seminar on urban sustainability, inclusion, and resilience. Prof. Marius Pieterse (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) will visit us these days, and he will participate in the seminar too. Prof. Pieterse is a renowned expert on urban law, the right to housing, and the right to the city. The seminar will deal with the possibilities of the right to housing for urban sustainability, inclusion, and resilience. How can the right be used to produce more environmentally/socially sustainable and resilient cities? Prof. Pieterse will identify features of SA housing rights jurisprudence that could contribute to more sustainable and resilient cities etc, and speculate about possibilities in this regard.

After, we have a number of excellent talks by Dr. Marlies Hesselman, Dr. Andrei Quintiá Pastrana, and Dr. Sander van Lanen. The seminar will be chaired by Prof. Michel Vols.

About the speakers and chair

Prof. Michel Vols is the Principal Investigator in the EVICT project and a full professor of law at the University of Groningen. His main fields of research are housing law, human rights, public safety, and legal methodology.

Dr. Marius Pieterse is a professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he teaches urban and local government law, constitutional law and human rights law. His research focuses on urban governance, local government law and the realisation of socio-economic rights in an urban context.

Dr. Marlies Hesselman is an Assistant Professor in International Law at the University of Groningen, focussing on public international law, human rights law, international environmental law, and

Dr. Sander van Lanen is assistant professor at the University of Groningen and a member of the Young Academy Groningen. He researches the geography of inequality, poverty, and social exclusion, especially in cities. His expertise is in the following domains and their interactions:

Dr. Andrei Quintiá Pastrana is a postdoctoral researcher in the EVICT project and the Department of Legal Methods (Faculty of Law), University of Groningen. His main fields of research are public law, housing law, algorithm law and empirical research methods.

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The event will be onsite. Registration is required, please send an email to m.vols@rug.nl

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