Beeckmans, Luce

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   Morrinho Project, Rio de Janeiro  URBAN WORLD-MAKING University of Amsterdam, 1-2 June 2017  Location: University of Amsterdam   Organized by the ASCA Cities Project, the international conference Urban World-Making explores contemporary processes of ‘worlding’ in relation to urban environments.  Keynote speaker: Dan Swanton (University of Edinburgh)  The conference is open to the public.   For more information, visit cities.humanities.uva.nl   For further inquiries, please contact the organisers: Simone Kalkman a.s.kalkman@uva.nl Carolyn Birdsall c.j.birdsall@uva.nl       Urban World-Making Conference Programme  DAY 1: THURSDAY, 1 JUNE 2017 Location: Potgieterzaal (C.0.01), Universiteitsbibliotheek Singel, Singel 425   15.00-17.00 Panel 1: Worlding Concepts and Strategies in Europe   Chair: Niall Martin (University of Amsterdam)   Global Cities: Indigenous Communitarian Strategies in Northern Europe, in the Context of Non-regular Migration. The Pasanaku case in Amsterdam Carolina Chavez (University of Amsterdam)  Practices of Citizen Professionals in Built Environments Karin Christof (University of Amsterdam)  A Globe that Globalisation Forgot: The Garden of Earthly Delights on the Fringes of Banal Cosmopolitanism Simon Ferdinand (University of Amsterdam)  Re-imagining Trieste: Microcosms of a Cosmopolitan City Milou van Hout (University of Amsterdam)  17.00-19.00 Welcome drinks  FRIDAY 2 JUNE 2017 Location: Nina van Leerzaal, Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127  09:15-09:30 Welcome  09:30-10:00 Introduction  10:00-11:30 Panel 2: Creating ‘World-Class’ Cities    Chair: Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)  A ‘Model State’ for Malaysia? Competing Visions of (Re)development in a UNESCO World Heritage City Creighton Connolly (National University of Singapore)  Official Magic: Mexico City and the Planning Imaginary Joseph Heathcott (The New School, NYC)  Designer Governmentality meets the Local Developmental State: Cape Town’s Politics of Becoming the World Design Capital 2014 Laura Nkula-Wenz (PRODIG, Paris; University of Cape Town)      11:30-12:00 Coffee break  12:00-13:00  Keynote Lecture: Dan Swanton (University of Edinburgh) Infrastructures for Living with Difference: Research as World-Making  13:00-14:00  Lunch break  14:00-15:30 Panel 3: Place-Making and Global (Anti-)Capitalism   Chair: Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Amsterdam)    Bourgeois World-Building in the post-Ottoman Balkan City Milos Jovanovic (Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen).   Worldings Expulsed Cornelia Graebner (Lancaster University)  ‘Mobile Urbanism’ from Below: The Transnational Exchange of Place-Making Strategies across the African Diaspora (the Case of African Shops in Ghent) Luce Beeckmans (University of Ghent)  15:30-16:00 Coffee Break  16:00-17:30 Panel 4: Aesthetic Imaginaries/Practices of Resistance   Chair: Tijmen Klous (University of Amsterdam)    Mostar, the Divided City: Global Imaginaries, Local Activisms Giulia Carabelli (Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen)  Ungovernable Walls: Aesthetic Resistance in Santiago Daniela Vicherat Mattar (Leiden University College)  Johannesburg as a Moving Target Nduka Mntambo (University of Witwatersrand)  17:30-19:00 Drinks  19:00  Dinner           HOW TO GET THERE  From Schiphol Airport you can take a direct train to Amsterdam Central Station.   Our venue for Thursday 1 June is the Potgieterzaal in the University Library Singel, located in the city centre at the Singel 425.   Trams:  1, 2, 5 Tram stop:  Koningsplein   Our venue for Friday 2 June is the Nina van Leerzaal in the Allard Pierson Museum, located in the city centre at the Oude Turfmarkt 127.   Trams:  4, 9, 16, 24 Tram stop:  Spui  Both locations, within walking distance of each other, are marked on the map below.   

‘Mobile Urbanism’ from Below: The Transnational Exchange of Place-Making Strategies across the African Diaspora (the case of African Shops in Ghent)

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‘Mobile Urbanism’ from Below: The Transnational Exchange of Place-Making Strategies across the African Diaspora (the case of African Shops in Ghent)

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