Program
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2024
12:30 Registration
13:00 Welcome and Opening
Barbara Pfetsch & Hubert Knoblauch (CRC 1265)
13:15 Keynote Lecture
Arjun Appadurai (NYC)
The Territory of Affect: Polymorphous Populism and National Boundaries
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 — Panel I
Spatial Conflicts and Physical Violence
moderated by Nina Baur & Frederike Brandt
René Tuma & Mina Godarzani-Bakhtiari (CRC 1265)
The Spatial (Re-)Organisation of Microinteractional Violence
Barbara Kavemann (Freiburg)
Domestic and Sexual Violence: The Role of Private Spaces
Agatha Mutio Nthenge (Chuka)
Violence between Pastoralist Groups in Northern Kenya
Abram de Swaan (Amsterdam)
Compartments of Annihilation: Screening off the Places of Barbarity
15:00 — Panel II
Spatial Politics of Economic Activity
moderated by Johanna Hoerning
Ursula Mense-Petermann (Bielefeld)
The Transnational Labor Market in Meat Packing: Spatial Impacts – Political Conflicts
Maria Backhouse (Augsburg)
Transformation through Compensation? Conflicts surrounding Voluntary Carbon Offsetting in the Amazon Basin
Simon Pohl (CRC 1265)
Taming Airbnb: Regular and Algorithmic Regulation across Cities and Time
17:30 Coffee Break
18:00 Evening Keynote Lecture
Teresa Koloma Beck (Hamburg)
Scaling Violent Conflict
19:30 Reception
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2024
9:30 — Panel III
Spaces of Climate Conflicts
moderated by Ignacio Farías
Daniela Stoltenberg (CRC 1265)
Picturing Amazônia: Digital Contestation between Local and Translocal Perspectives on Rainforest Preservation
Anna Roosvall (Stockholm)
The Material, Mental and Mediated Spaces of Climate Activism and Artivism
Elisabeth Luggauer (Berlin)
Soils and Trees, Conflicts and Frictions – Greening the Modernist City?
Margherita Tess (CRC 1265)
Insulation as a Conflictual Space
9:30 — Panel IV
Culture, Language, Law, and Religion
moderated by Silke Steets, Hubert Knoblauch & Willi Pröbrock
Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht)
Religio-Criminal Governance and the Pentecostalization of Urban Culture in Rio de Janeiro
Anne Storch (Cologne)
Sound as Weapon, Voice as Territory
Bettina Rentsch (Berlin)
Conflicts over Spatial Justice
Jochen Kibel (CRC 1265) and Makau Kitata (Nairobi)
Notions of Land – Figurations of Conflict: Conflictual Production of Urban Spaces in Kaloleni and Makongeni, Nairobi
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 — Panel V
Intersections and Sociospatial Conflicts
moderated by Anna Steigemann
Noa K. Ha (Berlin)
Representations of Place and Contestations of Space: Politics of Public Space and the European City of Berlin in New Germany
Sung Un Gang (CRC 1265)
Conflict Prevention and Queer Placelessness: An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTQIA+ Lives
Iryna Ignatieva (Odesa)
Escaping Territories of Terror: Protective Strategies against Intersectional Violence at Checkpoints
13:00 — Panel VI
Migration and Circulation
moderated by Elettra Griesi & Qusay Amer
Rebecca Enobong Roberts (CRC 1265)
IDP’s (Re)settlement in Nigeria‘s Urban Landscapes: Everyday Practices, Spatial Transformation and Conflicts in Lagos
Cathrine Talleraas (Bergen)
Local Implications of Externally Driven Migration Governance: Challenges for Border Controllers and Border Crossers in West Africa
Bernd Kasparek (Berlin)
After the Nation. Government and Democracy in the Space of Migration
Oroub El-Abed (Birzeit)
Analyzing the Impact of Global North‘s Containment Policy on Refugee Solutions
15:30 Get-together and Farewell