Please see below for details of a workshop on 'The City and Community' co-organised by the BISA Poststructural Politics Working Group & the Politics-Space-State (PSS) research cluster, Durham University
Places are FREE but limited. Please contact Angharad Closs Stephens [[log in to unmask]] if you would like to know more and/or are interested in attending.
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The City and Community
18 November 2009, 9.00am - 4.30pm
The Derman Christopher Room, Durham University
Programme of speakers:
9.00
Welcome: Angharad Closs Stephens
9.15 - 11.00
Keynote address:
Professor Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawaii) 'Gothic Philadelphia: Divided Subjects and Fractionated Assemblages'
(from his forthcoming book: The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre (Routledge Interventions series, 2010)
11.00 - 11.15
Coffee/tea
11.15 - 1.00
City communities: the ontology of urban social ties
Ash Amin, Durham University: 'The Freight of Social Ties'
Joe Painter, Durham University: 'Neighbourhood and Community'
Angharad Closs Stephens, Durham University: 'Beyond "imagining" community'
Martin Coward, Newcastle University: 'Agonism, community, urbanity'
1.00 - 2.00
Lunch
2.00 - 3.45
The city as a site of politics
Steve Graham, Durham University: 'Disrupted Cities: Failing Infrastructures and Urban Communities'
Vicki Squire and Jennifer Bagelman, Open University: 'Seeing sanctuary like a city: Mobility, mutuality and politics in the City of Sanctuary movement'
Delacey Tedesco, Keele University/University of Victoria, BC: title tbc.
3.45 - 4.00
Coffee/tea
4.00 - 4.30
Closing remarks
Travel bursaries are available for postgraduate students travelling to Durham for this event. Please keep receipts and pick up a claim form at the workshop. Rooms at the University are also available to book for £40.
We would encourage those travelling to Durham to also attend the international conference hosted by Newcastle University on World Politics and Popular Culture, 19-20 November: (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/WorldPolitics/index.html). Durham University is a 12 minute train journey from Newcastle city centre.
Organised by Angharad Closs Stephens, with additional assistance from Louise Amoore, Martin Coward, Michele Lancione and Eduardo Neve-Jimenez.
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BISA Poststructural Politics Working Group
Convenors:
Angharad Closs Stephens ([log in to unmask]) Martin Coward ([log in to unmask])
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