International Symposium
Urban Citizenship Revisited
Rights, Recognition and Distribution in Berlin and Tel Aviv
September 15th & 16th 2011
The Urban and Regional Sociology Program at Humboldt-University Berlin is excited to announce the International Symposium: Urban Citizenship Revisited. Rights, Recognition and Distribution in Berlin and Tel Aviv.
The symposium will survey the field of urban citizenship practices in Berlin and Tel Aviv and theorize urban citizenship from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective. Scholars from Israel, Germany, and other European countries will discuss current forms of inclusion and exclusion into the political, civic, economic, and cultural spheres of both cities, as well as theoretical questions concerning the analytical and normative framework of the urban citizenship concept. Please note that the Symposium will be held in English.
For more information:
please download the detailed conference anouncement here => download anouncement (PDF)
please download the abstracts of all lectures here => download abstracts (PDF)
please download the detailed program here => download program (PDF)
When: September 15th & 16th 2011
Where: Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-University Berlin
Universitätsstraße 3b, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Keynote Lecture by Oren Yiftachel & Closing Remarks by Roland Roth
Confirmed speakers: Yishai Blank // Talja Blokland // Nir
Cohen // Henrik Lebuhn // Britta Grell // Duygu Gürsel // Christine
Hentschel // Andrej Holm // Ina Kerner // Adriana Kemp // Kira Kosnick
// Armin Kuhn // Stephan Lanz // Talia Margalit // Galia Rattner //
Gökce Yurdakul
Organizing Team: Talja Blokland // Henrik Lebuhn // Talia Margalit // Oren Yiftachel
Student Assistants: Susanna Raab // Tilman Versch
The Symposium is free of charge. Please register via Email at: stadtsoz@hu-berlin.de
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PART I: WELCOME & KEYNOTE
9:30 – 10:00h Welcome Speech & Opening Remarks
Talja Blokland (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Chair: Ina Kerner (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev):
Urban Citizenship in the 21st Century: Between Privatizing Democracy and Creeping Apartheid
12:00 – 13:30h Lunchbreak
PART II: PANELS
13:30 – 15:30h PANEL I: Public Space, Urban Culture, and the Right to Diversity
Chair: Christine Hentschel (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Nir Cohen (Ruppin Academic Center) and Talia Margalit (Tel Aviv University):
New Citizens, Old Diversity: Labor Migrants and Networked Spaces in Tel Aviv
Kira Kosnick (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main):
Conflicting Diversities: Urban Leisure Publics and Struggles over Space in the Neoliberal City
Duygu Gürsel and Gökce Yurdakul (Humboldt-University Berlin):
Kanak Attak invades the City: Challenging Citizenship and Integration Policies
15:30 – 16:00h Coffeebreak
16:00 – 18:00h PANEL II: Human Security as a Local Public Good
Chair: Talia Margalit (Tel Aviv University)
Britta Grell (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin/WZB):
Confronting Social Exclusion in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Successes and Failures in Berlin
Yishai Blank (Tel Aviv University):
Affordability and Citizenship:
Contested Meanings of Affordable Housing and the Struggle over Urban Citizenship in Tel Aviv
Andrej Holm (Humboldt-University Berlin):
Excluded Berlin: Housing at the Margins of Urban Citizenship
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Friday, September 16th
9:00 – 11:00h PANEL III: Participation in Urban Politics
Chair: Henrik Lebuhn (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Adriana Kemp and Galia Rattner (Tel Aviv University):
The Making of Partnership and 'Networked Experts'.
Urban Renewal and Participation in Yaffo Gimmel
Armin Kuhn (Potsdam University):
From Citizenship to Social Struggle.
Participation Mechanism as a Point of Reference for Protest and Self-Organization in Berlin
Stephan Lanz (Viadrina-University Frankfurt/Oder):
Be Berlin! Governing the City through Citizenship
11:00-11:30h Coffeebreak
PART III: PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
11:30 - 13:00h Continuation of Panel-Discussion in Workshops
Workshop I: Public Space, Urban Culture, and the Right to Diversity
Workshop II: Human Security as a Local Public Good
Workshop III: Participation in Urban Politics
13:00 - 14:30h Lunchbreak
PART IV: REPORTS FROM THE WORKSHOPS & FINAL REMARKS
14:30 - 16:00h Plenary Session: Reports from the Workshops
Chair: Talja Blokland (Humboldt-University Berlin)
16:00 – 16:30h Coffeebreak
16:30 – 18:00h Closing Remarks and final discussion
Roland Roth (Hochschule Magdeburg)
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Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the International Office, the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Urban and Regional Sociology Program at Humboldt University Berlin.