I have built a strong international reputation in the field of urban planning and studies since 2005. I have been invited to present at 22 academic events / conferences, across the world. This includes:
 
IC 22- 8 January 2020: Re-thinking mega-events through a more integrated approach to divergent temporalities, MEMO 2020 “Youth and Winter Sports” Congress Events, cities and urbanism
, IGUL/UNIL, Lausanne (Switzerland)
IC 21- 9 December 2019: Cities & Temporary Urbanisms, MoCA, Skopje (Macedonia)
IC 20- 22-26 July 2019: Frontiers of Development symposium ‘The Urban Opportunity for Building a Resilient Future’, Royal Academy of Engineering, Putrajay (Malaysia) (£20K Seed Funding attached)
IC 19- 6 June 2019: Cities, temporalities & temporary urbanism, seminar “The unfinished in architecture, design and planning”, Open University, London.
IC 18- 15 November 2018: Planning Regional Futures, Special Panel Session of the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, invited speaker along with Vanessa Watson, Simin Davoudi, and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, London
IC 17- 16 October 2018: SDGs, Planning education & planning practice,  Planning Africa – Plenary Session on “Africa and the Commonwealth: the achievement of the New Urban Agenda”, Cape Town.
IC 16– 8 May 2018, New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanism, 12thInternationl Seminar NUTAU 2018 ‘Tecnologia e Invaçao em Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Perspectivas Futuras’, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo
IC 15- 15 May 2014: Usages temporaires ou pérennes de lieux : quels enseignements tirer de Liverpool 2008 ? Conference ‘Ville, culture et grands projets’, Marseille
IC 14- 04 January 2012: The role of ‘persistent resilience’ in a context of austerity: the importance of networks and impact-minimizing coping tactics,Research Seminar “Cities are Back in Town”, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris
IC 13- 27 June 2011: Capital Européenne de la culture et regeneration urbaine. Regard critique sur Liverpool. Research Seminar, EHESS, Marseille
IC 12- 08 March 2010: Synthesis and wrap up,Seminar “Urban renewal projects in Europe”, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, Paris
IC 11- 21 October 2010: Des activités culturelles aux industries créatives à Marseille et à Birmingham : vers un système complexe de gouvernance multi-échelles, 5th international symposium on territorial planning, Grenoble (with Caroline Chapain)
IC 10- 21 September 2010: L'éphémère, le temporaire et la veille comme enjeux d'une ville réversible et éminemment mutable, Conference of Cerisy ‘Villes et territoires réversibles’, Cerisy-la-Salle, 20-27 September 2010
IC 09- 15 July 2010: Creative cities, built environment and urban regeneration in Europe: An overview, Creative Regions Summer School, University of Birmingham, 12-16 July 2010
IC 08- 10 April 2009: Friches et mutabilité précursive. Retour d’expériences franco-helvétique sur le rôle des acteurs transitoires dans la reconquête culturelle de territoire délaissés, Seminar Cities and Culture in the Mediterranean, MMSH, UMR Telemme, University of Provence
IC 07- 28 May 2009: Urban regeneration, culture and industrial brownfields – the case of Marseille (European Capital of Culture 2013), Department of Civic Design Seminar Series, University of Liverpool (GB)
IC 06- 09 December 2008: Les friches dans le paysage urbain : quelles alternatives ?, Conference Transtopies, Superior School of Art and Design, Reims, 9 December 2008
IC 05- 19 November 2008: Decrypting cities in mutation in regard to Brownfield trajectories: Evidences from France and Switzerland, Departmental seminar series Michaelmas, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy
IC 04- 9 January 2007: Relire la ville par ses friches. Trajectoires de mutabilité et référentiels urbains, Seminar Espace, Matières et Société, ENSAG, L’Isle d’Abeau 
IC 03- 9 February 2006: Pensées aménagistes, normes internationales: Territorialisations et distorsions du référentiel dans les politiques urbaines de développement durable, Seminar construction d’objets urbains de recherches (UMR Pacte-Territoires), Grenoble School of Planning 
IC 02- 21 March 2006: Confrontations des pensées aménagistes et des stratégies d’acteurs  dans les trajectoires de reconquête des territoires en déshérence. La friche : une ressource urbaine?, Seminar ressource territoriale, UMR Pacte-Territoires, Institute of Geography
IC 01- 18 November 2005: Présentation de la recherche doctorale, Seminar construction d’objets urbains de recherches, UMR Pacte-Territoires, Grenoble School of Planning

I have presented the results of my work in 28 international conferences in the fields of urban studies, planning and geography. 
 
C-32 Spatial injustice and socio-spatial divides in South Africa: what can planning and planners do?, The American Association of Geographers' annual meeting April 7-11 2021 (online) (with Stuart Denoon Stevens and Lorena Melgaço)
C-31 Bricolage and improvisation in the process of everyday 'place-shaping': learning from informal settlements in South Africa and Lebanon, The American Association of Geographers' annual meeting April 7-11 2021 (online) (with Stuart Denoon Stevens and Paul Moawad)
C-30 Immobility of lockdown and ill-health places of exception: control and fear in Syrian Informal tented settlements in Lebanon during the pandemic crisis, The American Association of Geographers' annual meeting April 7-11 2021(online) (with Paul Moawad)
C-29 Temporary Urbanism in Contested Urban Spaces: Urban Regeneration thru Nexus-Thinking and Active Waiting,AACCP2021 symposium in Istanbul held in April 26th–May 2nd, 2021 (online (with Paul Moawad)
C 28- Air Pollution and Air Quality Management in African cities: Translational Science and bridging the gap between research, standards and implementation,  African Perspectives on Design, Planning and Construction: Research and practice for inclusive, fair and sustainable urbanisation Conference, 27-29 March 2019, Delft (with H Bakare and J Bryson)
C 27- Planning for Regional Futures in the Global South: Shifting Siloed Approach to Place-based integrated Planning in Africa, Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, 16 November 2018, London (with H Bakare and J Bryson)
C 26- Idealism and resistance in spatial planning: questioning the new horizons of planning education; Planning Regional Futures, Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, 16 November 2018, London (with Melgaço, Jones and Denoon-Stevens)
C 25- Responsibility and resistance: planning for (and with) entrenched inequality, UK and Ireland Planning Research Conference 2018, 4 September 2018, Sheffield (with Melgaço, Jones and Denoon-Stevens)
C 24- Urban Diagnostics and the Management of Air Quality in 
Developing Countries: Towards an Integrated Approach (with Bryson and Bakare) ASAP quarterly webinar, 16 June 2018, Birmingham
C 23- 10 April 2018 Geographies of international planning education: ethics, positionality and reflective Practice, AAG New Orleans(with L Melgaço and P Jones)
C 22- 11 April 2018, New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanism, AAG New Orleans(with Peter Kraftl)
C 21- September 2017, (Re)considering and (re)imagining urban planning curriculum in South African Higher Education, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London (with Lorena Melgaço)
C 20- 18 June2013, Can we learn from the past or start from scratch? Rethinking cities’ futures in a regeneration context,EURA UAA Conference, Paris
C 19- 24-28 February 2012The role of 'persistent resilience' in a context of austerity: the importance of networks and gatekeepers in sustaining creative communities, AAG, New York
C 18- 15/16 December 2011: The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life: communities coping with instability in post-crisis England, Coping with Instability in Market Societies Max Planck–Sciences Po Conference, Sc Po Paris, Paris (with John Round)
C 17- 1 September 2011: Conceptualising and theorising persistent resilience, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London
C 16- 28-30 October 2011Creating creative spaces in Moscow: the role of state policy and creative networks in Moscow’s new cultural spaces, Urban Development and Politics in Europe and Russia conference, St Petersburg (with John Round)
C 15- 28-30 October 2011 The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life: The role of place, identity, networks and public spaces in coping with the European urban everyday, Urban Development and Politics in Europe and Russia conference, St Petersburg (with John Round)
C 14- 12-16 April 2011 The role of ‘persistent resilience’ within everyday life: communities coping with marginality, AAG Conference, Seattle (with John Round)
C 13- 7-11 July 2010 Temporary uses a luxury for tomorrow planning?, AESOP, Helsinki 
C 12- 24 September 2009The role given to creative industries in regeneration policies: lessons from Marseille (France), Third Research Seminar. Creative industries and regional policies: making place and giving space, Birmingham
C 11- 17July 2009Urban regeneration and alternative participatory practices in France: components, benefits and limits, AESOP, Liverpool 
C 10- 10-12 September 2008 Creative hopes in the Technopolis. Industrial innovation VS informal dynamics in Grenoble, Symposium The sustainability and development of cultural quarters: international perspectives,Gotland university, Visby (with Stéphane Sadoux and Charles Ambrosino)
C 09- 7-8 February 2008Planification et mutabilité urbaine : une conciliation impossible ?, 4thInternational symposium on territorial planning, Grenoble School of Planning, UMR PACTE
C 08- 11-13 July 2007La mutabilité à l’épreuve de la durabilité ou comment relire la réutilisation des territoires urbains délaissés sous le couvert de la ville durable, Symposisum ASRDLF,  Les dynamiques territoriales : débats et enjeux des différentes approches disciplinaires, University of Grenoble, University of Savoie, Chambéry (with Béatrice Bochet)
C 07- 15-16 March 2007Entre chancre et chance, éphémère et pérennité, les friches urbaines comme atouts dans l’invention d’une ville durable ? Les paradoxes temporels des espaces en déshérence dans le cas marseillais, Symposium « Pérennité urbaine », Department of Geography, Paris 10 University, 
C 06- 8-9 June 2006La ville face aux incessants changements de ses formes et de ses fonctions : la mutabilité comme constitutive du fait urbain, Symposium Les dynamiques du changement : Culture, citoyenneté, économie dans les régions alpines occidentales entre époque moderne et globalisation, CSAAO – University of Turin, CRHIPA – University of Grenoble, Alba
C 05- 22-23 June 2006Les espaces en marge et en déshérence dans la ville d'aujourd'hui : des trajectoires d'évolution à l'épreuve des politiques urbaines et de la population locale, Symposium Territoire(s) et action sociale, CNAM, ED ETE, Research center UMR LISE, Paris 
C 04- 21-22 September 2006 Les « cultural clusters » et la mutabilité urbaine : comparaison franco-britannique, Symposium L'économie culturelle et ses territoires, Department of Geography- Toulouse le Mirail University, Toulouse (with Charles Ambrosino)
C 03- 15 -16 June 2006 Pensées aménagistes, normes internationales: Territorialisations et distorsions du référentiel dans les politiques urbaines de développement durable, Symposium Les politiques publiques à l'épreuve de l'action territoriale, AFSP, IEP, University of Grenoble, Grenoble (with Benoit Faraco)
C 02- 2-3 June 2005 La question des échelles d'intervention dans les processus participatifs en faveur du développement durable : les cas français et britannique, Symposium Le développement durable : du global au local, une démarche transversale au service du développement territorial, University of Brittany, Brest (with Stéphane Sadoux)
C 01- 21-23 September 2005 Reconstruire la ville sur la ville : densités et centralités en France et en Grande Bretagne, Symposium Développement urbain durable, gestion des ressources et gouvernance, IGUL, University of Lausanne, Lausanne (with Stéphane Sadoux)