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[ecrea] The City and Community, Durham University 18th November 2009

Thu Oct 22 11:34:51 GMT 2009



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 [(a.c.stephens /at/ durham.ac.uk)] 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 ((a.c.stephens /at/ durham.ac.uk)) Martin Coward ((martin.coward /at/ ncl.ac.uk))

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