IUSD Lecture: “Never Surrender” / Documentary Film by M. Reza Shirazi

It is our pleasure to welcome M. Reza Shirazi and to show his documentary film “Never Surrender. The fight for environmental justice in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco”.

The film narrates the community fight for environmental justice in Bayvview-Hunters Point neighbourhood, San Francisco. It documents the conflict between people and government over the safety of the Hunters Point Shipyard, a former military base contaminated during the Second World War and beyond, now under remediation and redevelopment work.

Date and time of the lecture
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 11:30 – 13:00 CET

Webex-Link
https://unistuttgart.webex.com/unistuttgart/j.php?MTID=m30959cc583650e4d232160325e598229
Meeting number: 2731 493 0560
Meeting password: m8GJ5sKmEm9

M. Reza Shirazi is an urbanist, researcher, and a Reader in Sustainable Urban Development at the School of Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University. He is an expert in socio-cultural sustainability, neighbourhood planning and design, citizen participation, urban justice, and discourse studies. Reza has been awarded several research grants and fellowships. He was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at UC Berkeley (2018-2020) and principal investigator of the EU-funded research project “(Un)Just Neighbourhoods: Socio-Spatial Justice in Urban Neighbourhoods”.