Dear All,

Here is the programme for Cities in Conflict at the ICA on Monday 20th 
June. 
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CITIES IN CONFLICT

Monday 20th June 2011

Organised by the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Unit for Global Justice

Held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

With the rapid intensification of urbanisation, cities have increasingly become targets, terrains, and territories of conflict. Cities are now seen as spaces of conflict, ranging from urban violence to warfare. Yet the city is also seen as a space of consociation, a place for rebuilding and for making new urban ties, lives, and associations.

How do we map and document cities in and after conflict? What is the relation between the material city and conflict? Have new urban forms produced new forms of violence? How do we understand violence in everyday urban life? Is it possible to construct new forms of urban life after conflict?
This conference explores these questions by bringing together sociologists, urban theorists, photographers, documentary makers, architects, architectural theorists, urban planners, and lawyers to explore four panel themes: Architectures of Conflict, Cities at War, Urban Violences, and Reconstructing Urbanity, together with an exhibition and roundtable discussion of images of cities in conflict.

9.00: Registration

9.30-11.15: Panel 1: Architectures of Conflict
Chair: Caroline Knowles, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths

Pleasure or Order in the City
Mark Cousins, Architectural Association

Redestruction: The Architecture of the "Post-Conflict Environment".
Andrew Herscher, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan

Material proportionality: the discursive economy of urban violence.
Eyal Weizman, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths

11.15-11.30: Break

11.30-12.30: Panel 2: Cities at War
Chair: Kirsten Campbell, Unit for Global Justice, Goldsmiths

Cities Under Siege: the New Military Urbanism.
Stephen Graham, School of Architecture, Newcastle University

The urbanisation of in(security): the trope of the network and the extension of battlespace.
Martin Coward, Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University

12.30-1.45: Lunch

1.45-2.45: Panel 3: Urban Violences
Chair: Alison Rooke, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths

Violent Cities, violence in cities; Evidence from recent research.
Caroline Moser, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester

"Rethinking Gangs."
Claire Alexander, Reader in Sociology, LSE

2.45-3.00: Break

3.00-4.30: Panel 4: Reconstructing Urbanity
Chair: Fran Tonkiss, Director Cities Programme, LSE

'Two cities with no soul': The challenge of reconstructing urbanity in war-divided cities.
Shipra Narang Suri, Urban Planner and UN Consultant

Micro conflict and emergent publics in the 21st century metropolis.
Michael Keith, Centre on Immigration, Policy, and Society, University of Oxford

Athens Revolting.
Costas Douzinas, School of Law, Birkbeck College

4.30-4.45: Break

4.45-5.45: Image: City: Conflict
Chair: Paul Halliday, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths

Ania Dabrowska, Photographer; Jenny Matthews, Photographer; Paul Lowe, Photographer

Photographic Exhibition: Danilo Murru, Santiago Escobar, Manuel Vasquez, Beatriz Véliz Argueta