We’re delighted to invite you to a conversation on ‘Housing Harm’, our first Oxford-based event, Friday 23rd February, 6pm, the Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford. Dr. Ciara Breathnach (History, University of Limerick) and Dr. Sharda Rozena (Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield) will share their perspectives on housing, danger, and negligence.

Ciara’s most recent, award-winning book, Ordinary Lives, Death and Social Class: Dublin Coroner’s Court, 1876-1902, offers a fascinating window into Irish history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: it is the first book to examine the history of the City of Dublin’s coroner’s court, and asks what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban—and domestic—living. Sharda has worked widely and brilliantly on contemporary housing issues in Kensington. Her current project, ‘The Last Place: Thinking Through the Implications of Security of Tenure’, is using ethnographic life histories of the last regulated tenants in the UK to consider the past, present, and future of rent control.

We are hugely excited to be co-chairing this event, and are very grateful to Ciara and Sharda for speaking.