DETAILED PROGRAM
Wednesday 2nd April
9:00-9:30h Registration
9:30-9:45h Welcome
address: Antonio Ariño, Vice-chancellor of the University of Valencia; Joan Noguera, IIDL Director and Josep Sorribes
and Luis del Romero, SiCC.
9:45-10:30h Enrico Gualini, TU
Berlin: Reflections on protest and planning
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 Keynote 1: Michael
Janoschka, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Theoretical and methodological challenges for the research of contentious
urban politics
12:00-14:00 Keynote 1 Papers: Conflict research theories and methodologies
12:00-12:15 Samuel Mössner, Freiburg University: Bringing the political inside of democracy:
protest movements cannot save the world alone
12:15-12:30 Sebastián Ibarra González, University of Amsterdam: The re-politicization of the city: the neoliberal
urbanization as a mechanism of politicization and depoliticization of
collective action. A comparative analysis of the cases of Chile and Spain.
12:30-12:45 Frank Othengrafen, Leibniz Universität Hannover: The scope of
predictable surprises in spatial planning: public protests as the consequence
of wicked and polyrational planning issues.
12:45-13:00 Ismael Yrigoy, Universitat de les Illes Balears: Capital overaccumulation, devaluation
and social conflicts: the roots of urban dynamics through marxist theory.
13:00-13:15 Helena Cruz and Liliana Solé,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Territorial conflicts in Catalonia: an overview of its
evolution (2003-2013).
13:15-13:30 Nicolas Phelps,
Amparo Tarazona and Sonia Roitman, University College London:
The suburban question: grassroots politics and place making in Spanish
suburbs.
13:30-14:00 debate
14:00-16:00 Lunch
16:00-17:15 Keynote 2: Luis
del Romero, University of Valencia: Urban unrest and new social movements: lessons from Spain
17:15-17:45 Coffee Break
17:45-19:45 Keynote 2 papers: Strategies, actors and new
social movements
17:45-18:00 Miray Bas
Yildirim and Simge Ozdal Oktay, Gebze
Institute of Technology: Reading the
concept of self organization through Gezi Park
18:00-18:15
Margarida Queirós, Anna Ludovici, Pedro Quintela, Ana Rita Roque and Nuno
Vitoriano, Universidade de Lisboa: Urban social movements and new protest strategies: searching for alternative
spaces?
18:15-18:30
Anna Subirats, European University Institute of Florence: Urban Social
Movements in the new scenario of urban transformation
18:30-18:45
Nicholas Framont, Paris-Sorbonne University: Urban mobilizations
feed of social criticism: the justification of the agents involved against
urban renewal in the 20th arrondissement of Paris in the 90s
18:45-19:00 José Mansilla López, Universitat de Barcelona: Destapiem nosaltres. The
Social Assembly of Poblenou and the social reproduction in a
neoliberal city
19:00-19:15 Cristina Braschi, Université Catholique de
Louvaine : Cultural centres as
mediators of local conflicts
19:15-19:45 Debate
19:45 Valencia old town
excursion: a city of conflicts
Thursday 3rd
April
9:00-10:15
Keynote 3: Catherine Trudelle, University of Quebec in
Montreal (Canada) and Mathieu Pelletier, INRS, Montreal: Spatio-temporal and multi-scalar analysis of
urban conflicts: the case of Montreal
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:
45-12:45 Keynote 3 papers: Contesting urban planning and projects
10:45-11:00 Claire Duvernet: Hafencity University Hamburg:
Conflicts on big infrastructure projects
and planning cultures: Reflections from French-German comparative perspective.
11:00-11:15 Laura Lara and Luis del Romero: University
of Valencia: The dark side of a trendy suburb: gentrification, dispossession
and festivalization in Russafa (Valencia)
11:15-11:30 Juan Miguel Rafet Soriano, UNED;
Ignasi Cervera Arbona, Universitat Miguel Hernández; María Josep Ripoll
Berenguer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and José Vicente Sánchez Cabrera, University
of Valencia: Four decades of territorial conflicts and citizen mobilizations in
Marina Alta (Alicante)
11:30-11:45 Claire Colomb and Johannes Novy, University
College London: Tourists, out! Neighbourhood
conflicts and the ‘politicization from below’ of urban tourism in Barcelona and
Berlin
11:45-12:00 Alessandra Olivi,
University of Seville: Resisting Urban Redevelopment in Valparaiso, Chile.
12:00-12:15 Sonia Sales
Berenguer and Víctor Pons Cuevas, University of Valencia: The urban conflict as an answer to the Hospital de la Fe management:
from Campanar to Mailla (Valencia)
12:15-12:45 Debate
12:45- 13:30 Walter Nicholls,
University of Amsterdam: Urban social movements in Europe
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:30 Protest through art and
media
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-19:00 Round table: The
“Salvem” movements and the geography of conflicts in Valencia (Spanish)
Josep Sorribes, University of
Valencia
Antonio Ariño, Vice-rector of
Culture, University of Valencia
David Estal, Architect
19:00-19:30 Final remarks
21:00 Social dinner
Friday 4th April
9:30-14:00 (In front of el Hotel
Inglés): A City of conflicts II: Excursion to the Metropolitan Area of
Valencia: waterfront, Horta and Albufera
natural park
