I’m involved in organising a symposium on Walking in Lisbon in January 2019, an event which is kindly supported by CUCR. The event is held at Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa, and is organised by The Research Centre of Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies at the University Institute Lisbon. The programme has been put together by myself and Carla Duarte, … More Walking in Lisbon Symposium by Anita Strasser

The internal armed conflict in Colombia has been – and remains – such a complex story, that the first task for our interviewees this week has been to try to convey to us the depth and complexity of the task of recording what has happened here – before we even begin to consider the dimensions … More Postcard from the field by Vikki Bell

People remember where they were on 25 April 2015 when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale hit Nepal. Followed by hundreds of aftershocks and another major earthquake on 17 May, an estimated 9,000 people died, and many more were injured and traumatised in ways we may never understand. A team of researchers led … More How the Nepal earthquake continues to re-shape peoples’ lives by Caroline Knowles