Urban MultiplCITIES Programme

urban multipliCITIES

Exploring multiple urbanisms and challenging conventional representations
6-7 November 2008 Queen Mary University of London

A two day conference and open discussion
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group


THURSDAY 6 November 2008
12.30 -2.00 Registration and Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 Keynotes:
Police, politics and the city
Mustafa Dikec, Royal Holloway University of London

Urban Interventions: art, politics and pedagogy
David Pinder, Queen Mary University of London

3.30 – 4.00 Tea/Coffee Break

4.00 – 5.30 Paper Session:
Artefact/artifice: a student’s guide to fabrication
Charles Walker, Auckland University of Technology

Mapping Urban Experience in Contemporary Art: Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu
Kathryn Brown, University of Kent, Canterbury

Meaningful Materialities: ‘getting at’ urban multiplicities through Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory
Sophie Bond, University of Glasgow

From the Screen to the City: cinema and the fluid archive of the Bronx andNaples
Alessandro Buffa, State University of New York at Stony Brook


DINNER






FRIDAY 7 November 2008
10.00 – 11.30 Paper Session:
Parkour, Cities and the Event
Oli Mould, University of the Arts, London

Historicising the ‘Happy Habitat’: young people and the public domain in a Victorian city
Simon Sleight, Monash University, Melbourne

Urban Nature from the Inside Out
Russell Hitchings, University College London

Stories of ‘Home’: intergenerational femininity in Maidstone
Alex Fanghanel, University of Leeds

11.30 – 12.00 Tea/Coffee

12.00 – 12.45 Keynote:
Experiencing urban space: some methodological considerations from Bedford and Milton Keynes
Gillian Rose, Monica Degen & Begum Basdas,
Open University & Brunel University

12.45 – 2.00 Postgraduate Poster Session and Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 Paper Session :
Provincialising Gay Space: ordinary cities, ordinary sexualities
Gavin Brown, University of Leicester

Tracing Transnational Space in London
Mark Donnarumma, Birkbeck University of London

Squatting in Camps: how refugees challenge the understanding of housing poverty
Romola Sanyal, Rice University

Community Representation: lessons from a Johannesburg township
Dave Vanderhoven, University of Sheffield

3.30 – 3.45 Tea/ Coffee Break

3.35 – 4.30 Keynote:
Rights to the City
Engin Isin, Open University

Plenary Discussion and close


Registration Forms, information about accommodation and location maps can be downloaded from the UGRG website: www.urban-geography.org.uk

Costs: £50 waged
£25 unwaged/students
Dinner: £15

Registration Payments can be by cheque made out to Urban Geography Research Group and posted with Registration Form, or made at the Conference Registration Desk by cheque or cash.
Registration Deadline: Friday 24 October

For further information, contact: Margo Huxley: M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
Richard Smith: R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk