[ecrea] The City and Community, Durham University 18th November 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.
>
> --
> 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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