Book Launch: Drop City Books
Discussing The Broken Promise of Infrastructure at Drop City Books in Stoke.
Car Wars & Culture Wars
How cars and road infrastructure became part of the UK’s culture wars.
Housmans Book Launch
The launch of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure at Housmans bookshop, London.
Infrastructure in the Ruins of The Matrix
A short paper delivered at Panel 707: The Infrastructures of Dystopia at the MLA conference in 2023.
Race, Nation, Infrastructure
A day-long workshop exploring the cultural politics of infrastructure in Britain.
Kipling in the News
A conference that looked through the life of Rudyard Kipling to interrogate the relationship between journalism, empire, and decolonisation.
Crisis Lines: Coloniality, Modernity, Comics
A two-day conference on the politics of the line.
Documenting Trauma recognised with Honourable Mention
Documenting Trauma recognised by Comics Studies Society with Honorable Mention.
Videocast with Professor LatinX
Dom talks comics, trauma, infrastructure, and city spaces of the global South.
Urban Comics recognised with Honourable Mention
Urban Comics recognised by Comics Studies Society with Honorable Mention.
Panel Borders: Researching Comics’ Landscapes
Alex Fitch talks to Dom Davies about his research into comics, inequality, and the global South.
Infrastructural Reading: Fragments, Flows, Forms
A day-long workshop exploring how literary and visual forms mediate urban infrastructures.
TORCH Comics Network
A network of regular events and conferences that explored the power, politics, and potential of the comics form.
Divided Cities
A British Council US and TORCH-funded network that explored the interlocking relationships between culture, infrastructure, and the urban future.
Planned Violence Network
A two-year Leverhulme-funded international network on the intersections between postcolonial urban infrastructure, literature, culture.