Bi-monthly talk series with Dr. Wellington Migliari and Lluc Font-Pomarol

Explore the pillars of our research:

Housing and data science

On the 13th of April (from 04:00 – 05:30 CET Amsterdam / Berlin / Paris), EVICT will have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Wellington Migliari and Lluc Font-Pomarol, speaking on housing and data science.

Dr. Migliari will present his work on homelessness in Brazil, with a particular focus on the data analysis techniques used, and the process of aggregating the data into a reader-friendly format. Furthermore, the talk will delve into the correlations between homelessness and other social factors in Brazil, as well as present several starting points for data analysis and ‘right to housing’ research in Europe. Lluc Font-Pomarol will speak on his paper ‘Socially disruptive periods and topics from information-theoretical analysis of judicial decisions’ written together with Angelo Piga, Rosa Maria Garcia-Teruel, Sergio Nasarre-Aznar, Marta Sales-Pardo & Roger Guimerà. The paper utilized an information-theoretic methodology to quantitatively track trends and shifts in the evolution of large corpora of judicial decisions. Applied to a corpus of decisions in the field of housing, periods can be detected in which disruptive topics arise and are subsequently interpreted in terms of the role played by legislative changes, landmark decisions, and the influence of social movements. The paper was published open access in EPJ Data Science.

About the speakers

Dr. Wellington Migliari is a post-doctoral researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He currently focusses on curating different types of data related to land use, sustainable development, and territorial conflicts.

Lluc Font-Pomarol is a PhD candidate at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and has degrees in Physics and Modelling for Science and Engineering. In his PhD research, he studies the judicial system from a quantitative and data-oriented perspective.

About the monthly EVICT talks

On the third Thursday of every other month, we will have a speaker on a topic related to evictions, the right to housing, housing law, the (complex) relation between international law and national law, and/or data science. Each month, we will have a different international speaker (ranging from scholars to practitioners) who will offer fascinating insights into their area of expertise. Check out our events page for all upcoming and past events, which will have links to recordings of the talks.

The talks will be held online unless indicated otherwise. Each of these talks will begin at 4:00 pm and end at 5:00 pm (Central European Time, UTC+01:00).