Thursday, October 27th
Venue: HU Berlin, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1-3, Auditorium
12:45 Registration
13:15 – 13:30 Welcome: Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin)
Section I: Take Risks
13:35 – 13:45 Introduction to Section I: John Mollenkopf (CUNY)
13:45 – 15:15 Panel I: Threatened Hospitality / Threatening Hostility
Panel Coordination: Katharina Knaus (IGK) & Gesa Trojan (IGK) & Chaghaf Howayek (IGK)
Moderation/Discussant: Katharina Knaus (IGK) & Gesa Trojan (IGK)
Philipp Misselwitz (TU Berlin) “Refugee Accomodaton Strategies”
Dyugu Kaban (Spacedigger Research Collective, Berlin) “Blurry Borders in Anxious Times - Art and Urbanism between Turkey and Germany”
Sarah Becklake (Lancaster University): “The Temporally Hospitable/Hostile City-Destination: Global Tourism Mobilities, (In)Securities, and the Making of Hospitable/Hostile Experiences in La Antigua Guatemala.”
Nils Grube (HU Berlin) "Welcome to Berlin - Now Go Home! Hospitality and Hostility in Berlin’s New Tourism Areas"
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15 Panel II: Fear the Streets! Street Crime, Moral Panics, and the Metropolis
Panel Coordination: Niklas Creemeres (IGK) & Felix Fuhg (IGK)
Moderation: Felix Fuhg (IGK)
Niklas Creemers (IGK) “A Game of ‘Whack-A-Mole’: Policing New York City through Stats, Maps, and Trends.”
Jenny Künkel (Universität Frankfurt) “Policing Disorder in the Gentrifying City - an Intersectional Perspective.”
Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University) “The 'Criminal Disease' of 'Broken Britain': Youth, Politics and Moral Panics in the UK“
17:15 – 17:45 Coffee break
Keynote
17:45 – 18:00 Introduction to the Keynote Speaker: Thomas Mergel (HU Berlin)
18:00 – 19:30 Keynote with Discussion: Andrew Lees (Rutgers University) "The Growth of Cities and Conflicting Views of Urban Conditions Since 1800"
Friday, October 28th
Venue: TU Berlin, CMS, Hardenbergstraße 16-18, 1st floor, Room 103
Section II: Act Changes
09:30 – 09:40 Introduction to Section II: Margit Mayer (CMS/TU Berlin)
09:40 – 11:00 Panel III: Remerging Infrastructures. From Small Scale Practices of Provisioning to Large-Sscale Organization of Basic Needs.
Panel Coordination: Hannah Schilling (IGK) & Beatrice Walthall (IGK)
Moderation: Hanna Hilbrandt (IRS Erkner)
Discussant: Timothy Moss (HU Berlin)
Marcela Arietta (IGK) "Water and Power Organizing Practices at the Urban Fringe of Bogotá"
Marcela Lopéz (FU Berlin) “Infrastructures, Citizenship and Public Water in Meddelín, Colombia“
Beatrice Walthall (IGK) “Revealing Civic Actions in Urban Food Governance in Berlin”
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 Panel IV: Changing Mobility Patterns: Progress and Reluctance
Panel Coordination and Moderator: Aljoscha Hofmann (IGK)
Commentator: Dietrich Henckel (TU Berlin)
Christoph Bernhardt (IRS Erkner) "On Transitions and Persistences of Urban Mobility in the 20th Century."
Wolfgang Aichinger (Sustainable Mobility Consultant) "Cycling Boom, Dieselgate & Co.: Reflections on the Inherent Inconsistency of Mobility Policies in Germany"
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Fellow-Supervisor-Meetings
14:00 – 15:00 IGK Board Member Meeting
15:00 Excursions/Tours (approx. 2h)
19:30 Conference-Dinner (for registered guests only): Restaurant Schleusenkrug (Müller-Breslau-Straße, 10623 Berlin)
Saturday, October 29th
Venue: TU Berlin, CMS, Hardenbergstraße 16-18, 1st floor, Room 103
Section III: Create Futures
10:00 – 10:10 Introduction to Section III: Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto)
10:10 – 11:30 Panel V: Artivism in Urban Imaginaries
Panel Coordination: Kate Brehme (IGK) & Elif Artan (IGK)
Moderation: Janet Merkel (City University London)
Elif Artan (IGK) „Documentation of Urban Witnessing“
Kate Brehme (IGK) „Temporary Urban Space Aestheticized: What is The Berlin Biennale’s Right to the City?“
Friederike Landau (IGK) “Complementary Critiques - Collective Artist Formations in Berlin's Cultural Politics”
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:15 Panel VI: Tempor(e)ality: Racing Time and The Racialized Urban
Panel Coordination: Noa Ha (IGK)
Discussant and Moderation: Noa Ha (IGK)
Marlène de Saussure (IGK) "Producing the 'Colonial Metropole' in Marseille through Materialized Processes of Radicalization"
Patricia Schor (Utrecht University) "White Order and the Colonial Arquive: Racialization of Public Space in the Netherlands”
Peggy Piesche (University of Bayreuth) "Memory, Time Travel and Post-City Spaces: Decolonizing African /Diasporic Futures"
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch Break & Fellow-Supervisor-Meetings
14:45 – 15:30 Film Screening/Artistic Performance
15:30 – 17:00 A Final Discussion on “The Future of Urban Studies”:
Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin)
Kanishka Goonewardena (University of Toronto)
Friederike Landau (IGK)
Philipp Misselwitz (TU Berlin)
Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham University)
Moderation: Noa Ha (IGK) & Daniel Tödt (IGK)
20:00 Closing Party at Kosmetik Salon Babette
(Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin)