Dr Ayona Datta Contact details: Cities Programme, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE a.datta2@lse.ac.uk [ Homepage ] [ Publications ] [ Research ] [ Teaching ] [ Talks/Lectures/Service ] [ Cities Programme ]
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	Invited lectures/talks 2010 School of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton, UK 2010 Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK 2010 Department of Geography, University College London 2009 Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester 2009 'Woodstock of Political Thinking' conference at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich. 2009 Jawaharlal Nehru University and National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi 2009 Cities Methodologies exhibition at Slade School of Research, London 2009 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. 2008 Department of Geography, University of Bristol. 2008 Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex. 2008 Urban Salon seminar series, King’s College London. 2008 Building Futures conference organised by Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London. 2008 MA degree in Environment, Development and Livelihoods in the South, in Department of Geography, King’s College London. 2007 Urban Research Centre, London School of Economics. 2005 Open Lecture Series in London School of Economics.
	Professional Service 2012 onwards Book Review Editor of Gender, Place and Culture 2009 onwards Editorial Board of ACME: An International e-journal for Critical Geographies 2002 onwards Editorial Board of Open House International journal. Ongoing - Peer review of Economic and Social Research Council, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Leverhulme Trust grant applications in UK; book proposals for Routledge. Ongoing - Peer review of journal articles for Antipode, Ethnography, Geoforum, Global Networks, Home Cultures, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Irish Geography,  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Open House International, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2008 Open University Validation panel member for the M.Arch Architecture and Urbanism degree in Architecture Association School, London. 2008 Evaluator on the Academy Fellowships of the Academy of Finland and the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering in Finland. 2007 Expert evaluator on the Proposal Evaluation Panel under the HEFCE-DTI funded Urban-Buzz programme on ‘Building Sustainable Communities’ awarded to University College London. 2007 Expert panellist in the British Urban Regeneration Association’s (BURA) ’Fresh Eyes Project’ funded by HEIF3 to engage in fresh thinking on regeneration in London Borough of Lewisham. 2003 Media appearance in ‘Turnkey Homes from Northwin Development’ [Television series episode]. In Holywood, B and Patterson, K (presenters), Fairplay. Belfast: BBC Northern Ireland.
	Convened sessions, Panellist, and Discussant 2010 Chair of research conference funded by European Science Foundation. Title ‘Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies’ in Linköping, Sweden. March 2009 Chair of panel titled ‘Genius Loci: Architectures of Global Space’ in the Tate Britain triennial conference: Global Modernities, in London, UK. August 2008 Co-convened (with Katherine Brickell) two sessions titled ‘Translocal Geographies’ in Annual meeting of the Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) in London, UK. May 2008 Discussant in seminar titled 'Territorial differences in the enlarged EU: Perceptions and representations in the “old” Member States' in Sciences Po, Paris. April 2008 Plenary discussant at the ‘Muslim Geographies’ Conference in University of Liverpool, 4-5 April 2008. April 2008 Convened two sessions titled ‘Built forms and Migrant Mobilities in Cities’ in Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Boston, USA, 15-19 April 2008. April 2008 Discussant in ‘Diaspora and the City’ session in Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Boston, USA, 15-19 April 2008. April 2007 Panellist on ‘Doing Fieldwork’ session in Association of American Geographers annual meeting in San Francisco, USA, 17-21 April 2007.
	Selected Conference Presentations October 2008 ‘Illegal Geographies of the City: Everyday Places of Water and Sanitation in a New Delhi Squatter Settlement’. ESF-LiU Conference – The Right to the City: New Challenges, New Issues in Vadstena, Sweden, 11-15 October 2008. August 2008 ‘Diasporic landscapes of house and home: “Socio-technical” constructions of dom among Polish builders in London’. Annual meeting of the Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) in London, UK. July 2008 “Gender, Place, and the Politics of Flows: Water tanks, public toilets, and open land in a New Delhi squatter settlement”. Women’s Worlds (MMWW) Conference in Madrid, Spain, 3-9 July 2008. June 2008 “Illegal Geographies of the Modern City: New Delhi’s Squatter Settlements”. World Historical Association Annual Conference in London. April 2008 “Home, Migration, and the City: East European Construction Workers in London”. Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Boston, USA, 15-19 April 2008. April 2008 “As a Bengali, it is very difficult: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in East London’s Affordable housing”. ‘Muslim Geographies’ Conference in University of Liverpool, 4-5 April 2008. September 2007 “Home, Migration, and the City: East European Construction Workers in London”. ‘Creolising Europe’ conference in University of Manchester, 6-9 September 2007. August 2007 “Places of Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: East-European construction workers in London”. Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) annual meeting in London, 29-31 August 2007. July 2007 “Places of Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: East-European construction workers in London”. Everyday life in the Global City conference in Manchester Metropolitan University, 9-11 July, 2007. April 2007 “East European Builders in London: Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Everyday Places”. Association of American Geographers annual meeting in San Francisco, USA, 17-21 April 2007. March 2006 (Un)Doing Women: Veiled Masculinities and Uncontrolled Femininities. Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Chicago, USA. September 2005 Subaltern Architecture: Identity, Citizenship, and Domestic Spaces of the Urban Poor. Self and Subject conference, Fergusson Centre, Open University, Edinburgh, Scotland. July 2005 Swayamsiddha Colony: The Production and Consumption of Architecture for ‘New Urbanites’. Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) conference in Istanbul, Turkey. July 2004 Simulacra and Schizophrenia: Cultural Identity in the Architecture of Affordable Housing. CATH2004 conference organised by University of Leeds and the Arts and Humanities Research Board, Bradford, Leeds, UK. March 2004 New Urbanites: The Gendered Politics of Control and Resistance in a Delhi Slum. Association of American Geographers centenary meeting in Philadelphia, USA. March 2003 “It’s Like a Motel”: Gendered Feelings of Belonging to Real and Imagined Places. Association of American Geographers annual meeting in New Orleans, USA. January 2002 Gender and Power in the Built Environment: A Cross-cultural Perspective. Annual meeting of the Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) in Belfast, UK.