Julie-Anne Boudreau gave a presentation titled "Thinking Metropole: Comparative Reflexions" at the Think Metropole Workshop in Johannesburg on March 4, 2011. She also co-authored "Understanding the causes of urban fragmentation in Hanoi: The case of New Urban Zones" with Danielle Labbé, which has been accepted for publication in International Development and Planning Review, and, also with Danielle Labbé, « Les « nouvelles zones urbaines » à Hanoi : ruptures et continuités avec la ville » to be published in Cahiers de la géographie du Québec.

Jamie Peck gave the annual Lim Chong Yah lecture at the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, titled "Creative city limits: Winners and losers in the creative economy" on April 27, 2011. He will also present on "Neoliberal Suburbanism" at the MCRI Governance Workshop in Leipzig (June 30 - July 3, 2011).

Jill Grant gave a talk on "Trends in Canadian Suburbs" to the National Housing Research Committee in Ottawa on November 17, 2010. In addition, she presented on "Trends in the suburbs" as part of the Global Suburbanism panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (see below), and will present at the Canadian Institute of Planners Conference in St. John's, Newfoundland, in July 2011.

Richard Harris gave an invited talk at the CITY Institute at York titled "Meaningful types in a world of suburbs" on October 1, 2010. He also presented on "Land and housing markets" at the MCRI Organizational Meeting in Montreal in April 2010, and is also to give a public talk on "The making of Dufferin-St. Clair" on October 20, 2011. In September 2012, he will give two paper sessions at the conference of the European Association for Urban History in Prague, titled "What's in a name? How we label peripheral places", and is the principal organizer of a special session. His book chapter "Meaningful types in a world of suburbs" was published in Suburbanization in a Global Society (2010), edited by Mark Clapson and Ray Hutchison. In addition, he will be supervising two graduate students in MCRI-related research: Aman Gill (PhD Candidate, McMaster University) is writing on "The Making of suburban housing in post-war Toronto", and William Cobbett (MA candidate, McMaster University) is writing on "Managing urbanisation: The Chinese experience".

Caroline Andrew presented on "Civic governance and social inclusion in Ottawa" at the Conference on Civic Engagement and Economic Development in Canadian Cities at the University of Toronto on April 27, 2011, and she will give a talk on "Les métropoles dans le système politique canadien" at the Sorbonne in Paris on May 6, 2011. She will present her paper "La ville, la justice sociale et la voix des femmes : quels mécanismes, quels cheminements?" during the session "La Ville, la justice sociale et les droits humains" at the ACFAS Conference in Sherbrooke on May 10, 2011. Her book chapter "Ottawa-Gatineau: Capital Formation", with co-authors Brian Ray and Guy Chiasson, was also published in Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change, edited by Larry Bourne et al., in 2011.

Doug Young was an invited speaker at the Tower Renewal Workshop at York University on March 1, 2011, where he presented a paper titled "Tower renewal: Toronto's suburban moment". He also presented the paper "Suburban decline and renewal in post-political Toronto" at the Association of American Geographers' Annual Meeting in Seattle on April 14, 2011, and spoke on the Global Suburbanisms panel discussion (see below).

Alan Mabin, with Sîan Butcher, wrote the working paper "Scope and dimensions of suburbanism in African cities south of the Tropic of Cancer", which Alan presented at a SUBURBS Talk seminar at York University on April 8, 2011. A revised version of this paper by Alan Mabin, Robin Bloch and Sîan Butcher will be presented at the RC21 Conference in Amsterdam on July 9, 2011.

Fulong Wu gave the keynote address, "Understanding China's regional governance", at the Conference on Industrial Clusters, Regional Innovation and Regional Governance (August 19-22); he also was the keynote speaker at the International Conference on China and the Future of Human Geography (August 26-28, 2010), where he spoke on "Just how neoliberal is China's reform? The origins of urban changes under market transition and emerging new forms of urbanism", and at the 3rd International Conference on Next Generation Infrastructure Systems for Eco-cities (November 11-13, 2010), where his talk was titled  "Introduction to eco-city planning in China: the context of urban transformation and eco-city development".  He was an invited speaker at the Shanghai Forum (May 30-June 2, 2010), where he gave a talk titled "Pathway and challenge to the world factory regime", and at the China Urban Development Forum (September 17-18, 2010), where he spoke on "China's urban development under the world factory regime: pathway and challenges". He also presented on "China's model of urbanization under the world-factory regime" at the Fourth Shanghai World Forum of China Studies (November 6-8, 2010).

Fulong Wu also spoke on suburbanization at a workshop organized by Peking University and the Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy (July 11-July 15, 2010), and at a training workshop, "Progress in Human Geography" in Guangzhou (August 23-25, 2010). He has also given numerous seminars: "Path-dependency and urban poverty in China" at the Center for Modern Chinese City Studies of the East China Normal University on June 4, 2010; "Pathway and challenge to the world factory regime in China" at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences on June 8, 2010; "Suburbanization, polycentric metropolis, and post-suburbia" at Nanjing University on September 20, 2010; "Pathway and challenges to the 'workshop of the world': China's economic growth and urbanization in political economic perspectives" at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London on October 18, 2010; "China's model of urbanization under the world factory regime" at East China Normal University on November 9, 2010; "The redevelopment of migrant villages under China's rapid urbanization" at the School of Geography of the London School of Economics and Political Science on November 30, 2010; "Introduction to China's emerging spatial plans" at Taipei University on December 13, 2010; and "Understanding regional governance in China" at the Department of Geography of the National University of Taiwan on Deceber 14, 2010. Finally, he gave the public lecture "China's urban transition, culturally-led urban regeneration and the prospect for Macao's planning and development" at the Instituto Politecnico de Macau on November 16, 2010.

Mark Whitehead has submitted the journal article "Transition urbanism and the contested politics of ethical place-making" to Antipode; the paper is available through the journal's 'Online First' format. He has chapters in four forthcoming books: "Urban spatiality and economic development" in the Handbook of Urban Economic Development, edited by Hutton and Paddison; "The sustainable city an obituary: Critical reflections on sustainable urbanism" in Sustaining Success: The New Politics of Sustainable Urban Planning, edited by Flint and Raco; "Urban politics and sustainability", written with Roger Keil, in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics, edited by Mossberger and Smith; and finally, "Between here and there: Mobilizing urban vulnerabilities in climate camps and transition towns", written with Kelvin Mason, in Cities, Nature and Development: The politics and production of urban vulnerabilities, edited by Dolling and Simon. In addition, he taught the undergraduate course "Urban risk and environmental resilience" at the Aberystwyth University Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences between February and May of 2011. Mark Whitehead will also give the keynote address, "Neuro-Liberal Climatic Governmentalities" to the European Cooperation in Sciences and Technology Conference: Governing the Global Climate Polity: Rationality, Practice and Power in June 2011.

Elvin Wyly spoke on "Rethinking Canadian Suburbanism" atthe Global Suburbanisms panel discussion at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (see below). He also taught the workshop/studio course, "Urban Analysis", a mixed graduate/undergraduate course at the University of British Columbia Department of Geography, in which one group of students focused on the possibility of increasing diversity in Toronto's suburbs; this group was led by a Masters student, Liam McGuire, whose thesis, "Mapping the spaces of post-Fordist Toronto" is supervised by Elvin Wyly.

Per Gunnar Røe helped to arrange the workshop "Governance and Change on the Urban Fringe", supported by the European Urban Research Association (EURA), at the University of Oslo in May of 2010; the resulting papers are to be published in a thematic issue of the journal Urban Research and Practice in 2012, with Per Gunnar Røe and Jan Erling Klausen as guest editors. He also presented the paper "Green suburbanisms" at an international symposium held at the Norwegian School of Managment on the topic of Green Oslo and Beyond: Investigating the Origins and Shaping the Outcomes of Green Urbanism (June 7-8, 2010); he was also a member of the conference committee, and the paper is now being rewritten as a book chapter. In addition, Per Gunnar Røe presented the paper "Suburbanism as a way of life: the intrinsic logic of suburbs" at the Understanding City Dynamics conference held at the Technical University of Darmstadt (September 23-26, 2010), and the paper "Suburbanisms - 'within' a dissolving welfare state model" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Seattle (April 16, 2011). At the same meeting, he participated in the Global Suburbanisms: Conceptual Departures 1 panel discussion (see below). Finally, he also wrote an article titled "Forskning på forstaden" ("Researching suburbia") For the student paper Samfunnsgeografen (April 2011 issue).

In addition, Deborah Cowen, Stefan Kipfer, Byron Miller, Elvin Wyly, Doug Young, and Per Røe participated in a panel discussion titled "Global Suburbanisms: Conceptual Departures 1", organized by Roger Keil and chaired by Ute Lehrer, at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting on April 13, 2011. At the same meeting, Markus Moos, Jan Nijman, Jill Grant, Ute Lehrer, Michael Ekers and Nick Phelps participated in the panel discussion "Global Suburbanisms: Conceptual Departures 2", organized and chaired by Roger Keil.