Program
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Friday 1 September
Theme of the day: The Right to the City
09.00-11.00 Registration
11.00-11.45 Welcoming greetings and introductory statements: Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Montreal) TRISE Chair and Svante Malmström (Oulu) TRISE General Secretary
11.45-12.45 Keynote speech: Magali Fricaudet (Barcelona): “From Human Rights in the City to the Right to the City”
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Seminar A: Social Ecology, the City and the State
- Alexandros Schismenos – Direct democracy, social ecology and public space
- Federico Venturini – Reconceptualising the right to the city through social ecology
- Metin Guven – Do We Need a Theory of State?
16.00-16.15 Break
16.15-17.15 Keynote speech: Theodoros Karyotis (Thessaloniki): “Whose right to the city? Collective subjects and urban conflicts in times of crisis”
17.15-17.30 Break
18.30-19.30 Introducing workshops:
- Jemma Neville – Jemma Neville – Constitution Street
- Anne Scheinberg – Value Added, Introduction to informal recovery in Europe
18.30-19.30 Parallel workshops:
- Constitution Street (Jemma Neville)
- Due Diligence and Real Recycling and Re-use Numbers, European Circular Economy Ecology (Springloop Cooperatie)
20.00 Dinner
Saturday 2 September
Theme of the day: Social Ecology
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-10.30 Keynote speech: Brian Morris (London): “The legacy of Murray Bookchin”
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.45 Seminar B: Case studies of Urban Struggles
- Tina Schivatcheva – (Re)claiming the environmental conservation areas at the urban environment interface of the city of Bourgas, Bulgaria as egalitarian socio-political spaces REMOTE PRESENTATION
- Lycourghiotis, Laboura & Chalkia – Bicycle and city: The example of Patras and a cycle path suggestion
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Keynote speech: Havin Guneser (Hamburg): “From Bookchin to Abdullah Öcalan”
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.45 Seminar C: Turkey and the Kurdish quest
- Haris Tsavdaroglou – The battle for the common space and the right to the city in Istanbul: from the creative city to the rebel city and vice versa
- Ercan Ayboga – Constituent actors in the democratization of cities in North Kurdistan
16.45-17.00 Break
17.00-19.00 Workshop: The relevance of Social Ecology for Urban Social Movements (Federico Venturini & Malin Widehammar)
19.30-21.00 Double book launch at Micropolis: Greek edition of The Murray Bookchin Reader by Janet Biehl and of Political Ecology by Dimitrios Roussopoulos.
21.00 Dinner at Micropolis
Sunday 3 September
Theme of the day: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-10.30 Keynote speech: Emet Değirmenci (Seattle): “A Social Ecology Approach To Degrowth”
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.45 Seminar D: Concepts and Practices for Social Change
- Olli Tammilehto – The Present is Pregnant with a Social-ecological Future, The shadow society and societal phase shift
- Bogado & Solanas – Squatting movements in Spain and Brazil: Resistance and autonomy in the occupation of empty buildings in central urban areas REMOTE PRESENTATION
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Parallel workshops:
- How to talk about the commons transition in non-expert audiences (Alekos Pantazis)
- Body Displacement (Vilelmini Andrioti)
16.00-16.15 Break
16.15-17.15 Keynote speech: Dan Chodorkoff (Marshfield): “From the present situation going forward”
17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-19.30 Concluding panel: “Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities – How do we move forward?”. Speakers include: Malin Widehammar (Gothenburg), Svante Malmström (Oulu), Havin Guneser (Hamburg), Theodoros Karyotis (Thessaloniki)
20.00 Dinner
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