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Dear all, You are kindly invited to the below talk at MIT this Wednesday at 5pm. [cid:[log in to unmask]] Asya Aizman - “Who Evicts Us? A Landlord Attorney Case Study” - DH Workshop Series 2022-23 Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm Building 14, Hayden Library, The Nexus, 14S-130 160 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139: https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=14 Asya Aizman “Who Evicts Us? A Landlord Attorney Case Study,” Thursday May 10, 5 - 6 pm, in The Nexus. Evictions, court-ordered removals of tenants from their homes, are a much studied realm of the reproduction of spatial inequality. Research shows that court evictions disproportionately target minoritized populations, greatly amplifying those populations’ acute housing instability experiences. The research Asya will present analyzes the role of landlord attorneys in the eviction process. It will begin to answer: who are the people responsible for representing landlords and abetting evictions before and during the pandemic emergency? What kind of patterns can we surface in how they conduct their work? This project, done under the guidance of Dr. Eric Robsky Huntley, attempts to close a gap in research, as the effects of landlords’ legal representation has not yet been studied. Finally, the presentation will also touch on our work in progress: Mass Evictions, a database of deduplicated evictors in the state of Massachusetts. Look forward to seeing you on Wednesday. Warmly, Ece (pronounced AJ) Turnator Pronouns: she, her, hers Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian Data Management Services<https://libraries.mit.edu/data-management/services/> Team Member MIT Libraries Office Phone: 617-253-4979 MIT is an 1862 Land Grant Institution<https://www.landgrabu.org/universities>; it benefited from the dispossession of 82 Native American nations. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH