RECENT AND SELECTED TALKS

Presented at the Meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association in the Conference of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, Toronto: May 29.

“Urban Governance and Culture: Care for the Urban Way of Life.” Global Forum on Urban Governance Innovation at the Institute for Urban Governance of Peking University and University of Sanya, China. 

 “The Worm’s Eye View of Life:  An Essay on Desperation” Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization. University College, Cork, Ireland, Nov. 2-3 

“The Transmission of Heritage as a Social Phenomenon”, Intangible Heritage: Scenes of Urban Innovation V, 5th Annual Conference of The International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC). July 10-13, Athens. 

“The Libidinal City”. Libidinal Circuits: Scenes of Urban Innovation, 3rd Annual Conference of The International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC) University of Liverpool, School of The Arts, July. 

"The Provocative Uses of Affect in Imagining the Life of the City." Affective Cities: Scenes of Urban Innovation II, Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities(IASCCI). Toronto. August.

"On the Unending  Beginning of Social Inquiry." Presented at the Conference on the 40th  Anniversary of the book On the Beginning of Social Inquiry (1974), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland, June 9-II.

"Age,  Dementia, Death" the Caregiver's Dilemma, paper presented at the  conference on Ethical Foundations of Care, Centre for Social Innovation, May 5.

“The Art of Innovation and its Bottom Line: Making Do, Making and/as Doing, Making Music Together.” Poeticizing the Urban Apparatus:  Scenes of Urban Innovation, 1st Annual Conference of The International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC).  New York, August 13.