2020
Carol Upadhya, "Becoming Urban: Caste and Land on the Periphery of Bangalore." Making of Social Science (MOSS) Seminar, French Institute of Pondicherry, February 13, 2020.
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard “Urban Governance and Resilience”. School of Urbanism 2020: Indonesian Cities during and post- Covid 19 Pandemic. Rujak, Jakarta, May 7, 2020.
Helga Leitner, discussant (with the Governor of Jakarta): Urban Thinkers. Campus of the World Urban Campaign “Reclaiming Commons through Rights to the City”. Rujak, Jakarta, July 6, 2020.
2019
Hemangini Gupta, “Free to Desire: Gendered Circuits of Debt and Credit in the Speculative Asian City,” special workshop on Debt and Development in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, January 13–15, 2019.
Hemangini Gupta, “The City of Hope: Debt, Credit, and New Urban Futures in Global Bangalore,” Public talk at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, February 6, 2019.
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard “Speculative Urbanism and an Interscalar Rentier Economy: Tales from Jakarta & Bangalore”, AAG annual meeting, Washington DC, April 6, 2019.
Michael Goldman, Annual Lecture and Keynote, "Studying Globalization as Crisis through Networks of Derivatives, Bubbles, and Bankruptcies." Transnational Sociology Conference, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, April 2019.
Michael Goldman, Co-organizer and presenter, Financialization by Dispossession: The End(s) of Rurality in the Making of an Urban Land Market. Cornell University workshop on The Social Life of Land, Ithaca, NY, April 2019.
Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard and Sophie Webber) “Wheeling out a Global Urban Resilience Complex”, 12th International Forum on Urbanism, Jakarta, June 26, 2019.
Hemangini Gupta, “Towards a Lexicon for the World City: Keywords from Bengaluru and Jakarta,” Association for Asian Studies in Asia conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 1, 2019.
Hemangini Gupta, Panel convenor: “Speculative Urbanism in the Asias: Infrastructures, Aesthetics, Politics,” Association for Asian Studies in Asia conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 1–4, 2019. Discussant: Carol Upadhya.
Michael Goldman et al., "Contradictions of Bangalore's Speculative Urbanism." Environment Support Group, Bangalore, July 29, 2019.
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard “Land Grabbing and Struggles for the Right to Housing: The case of Jakarta”, Environment Support Group, Bangalore, July 29, 2019
Vinay Gidwani et al., "Speculative Urbanism and New Rental Economies in Bangalore," National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bangalore, July 31, 2019
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard “Speculative Urbanism: Land, livelihoods, and finance capital in Jakarta”, National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bangalore, July 31, 2019
Carol Upadhya and Sachinkumar Rathod, "Becoming Urban: Land and Caste at the City’s Edge." Paper presented at RC21@Delhi, September 18-20, 2019, Panel S18 - The Peri-urban Question: Renewing Concepts and Categories.
2018
Devika Narayan and Michael Goldman, “Cashing out the City: Speculative Urbanism through the Lens of India’s Real Estate Industry,” American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, April 12
Eric Sheppard “Globalizing Capitalism’s Raggedy Edges: Thinking through Jakarta” Area, Development and Policy plenary lecture, AAG meeting, New Orleans, April 13
Hemangini Gupta, “Nostalgia as Urban Archive: Resisting Displacement in an Era of Speculative Capital,” Society for Cultural Anthropology biennial conference, Johns Hopkins University, April 19-21, online conference.
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard “Privatized urbanism: Jakarta’s Great Land Transformation” CSU Long Beach, May 25; University of Oregon, May 10
Helga Leitner, Suryono Herlambang, Lion Ju Tjung, Eric Sheppard & Jessica Standifer) “Privatized Urbanism: Jakarta’s great transformation”, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA, June 6
Helga Leitner, Michael Goldman and Eric Sheppard “Speculative Urbanism and the Volatility of Urban Life”, Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Jakarta, August 2
“Constructing New World Metropolises," Universitas Tarumanagara (UNTAR), Jakarta, August 3. (SpecUrb Team Presentation).
Michael Goldman, “‘The Vultures are Circling’: Real Estate’s Tryst with Global Finance in India,” presenter and organizer of the panel, “Finance and the City”, Transnational and Global Sociology section, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, August 15.