Programme
9.00—9.30 Registration, Coffee
9.30—11.00 Panel 1: Urban Citizenship and its Aesthetics
Igor Stiks (Edinburgh College of Art): Spaces of Emancipation: Activist Aesthetics and Urban Citizenship
Jo Shaw (Edinburgh School of Law / IASH): Multi-level Citizenship: the Return of Cities?
Tahl Kaminer (ECA): Aesthetics, Politics, City
Chair: Stacey Hunter (The New Metropolitan)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.45 Panel 2: Activist Urbanism: Redefining the City and Ourselves
Giota Alevizou (Open University): Creative placemaking: claiming and performing rights between urban and digital space
Pietro Saitta (University of Messina): Aesthetics or Politics? Occupations, Class and Politics in the South of Italy (A Report from Messina)
Penny Travlou (ECA): Refugees and Citizens: Activist Hospitality in Athens
Chair: Niccolo Milanese (Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris / European Alternatives)
12.45 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Panel 3: People and Places: What Comes First?
Richard Williams (ECA): Urban citizenship in Amsterdam’s Broedplaatsen
Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven): What is Brussels?
Harry Weeks (IASH): Half-baked? Contemporary Art and Urban Regeneration in Liverpool
James Riding (University of Sheffield): An Attempt: Exhausting a Place in Sarajevo
Chair: Camille Louis (University of Paris 8)
3.00 – 3.30 Coffee
3.30 – 5.00 Panel 4: Oblique Cities: Scenes, Maps, Narratives
A joint presentation
Camille Louis (University of Paris 8), Niccolo Milanese (EHESS, Paris / EA), Maria Kakogianni (University of Paris 8) and Igor Stiks (ECA)
5.00 – 5.30 Conclusion and Future Collaboration
Supported by The Leverhulme Trust
In cooperation with the Institute of the Advanced Studies in the Humanities and The New Metropolitan
Convener: Dr Igor Stiks, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art, contact: i.stiks@ed.ac.uk