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Date: Thursday, February 5 (5:30 p.m.) - Saturday, February 7 (5:30 p.m.), 2009
Location: 112 Wurster Hall; Howard Room, Men's Faculty Club
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  PERIPHERIES: DECENTERING URBAN THEORY An International Conference at UC Berkeley 5-7 February 2009 Sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities ---------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 5 February 5:30-8:30pm 112 Wurster Hall 5:30 6:30pm Welcome Reception, Department of City and Regional Planning - Wurster Hall, second floor 6:30pm Welcome and Introduction 112 Wurster Hall Teresa Caldeira, UC Berkeley, City & Regional Planning conference co-organizer James Holston, UC Berkeley, Anthropology conference co-organizer Richard Walker, UC Berkeley co-director, Global Metropolitan Studies Josep Ramoneda general director, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona 6:45 8:30pm Panel 1 Peripheral Visions Teresa Caldeira, UC Berkeley Peripheries: Spaces in the Making AbdouMaliq Simone, University of London Intersecting Peripheries: Rethinking Urban Politics Richard Walker, UC Berkeley Peripheral Vision and the Urban: Moving Beyond Old Geographic Metaphors Friday 6 February 9am-5:30pm Howard Room, Men's Faculty Club http://www.berkeleyfacultyclub.com/ 9:00 11:30am Panel 2 New Urbanities and Mobilities Jose Castillo, Universidad Iberoamericana - The Intense Periphery: Half a Century of Changes in the Peripheries of Mexico City Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo Cartographies of Inclusion and Exclusion in Middle East Urbanism Nasser Abourahme, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Jerusalem The Production of Space, Political Subjectivication and the Folding of Polarity: the Case of Deheishe Camp, Palestine (with Sandi Hilal) Discussant: Nezar AlSayyad, UC Berkeley 1:00 3:00pm Panel 3 NeoCenterings Judit Carrera, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona El Raval, Barcelona: The Periphery in the Center of the City Neera Adarkar, Majlis Mumbai A Contested Center: Textile Precinct of Mumbai Discussant: Ananya Roy, UC Berkeley 3:30-5:30pm Panel 4 States, Citizens, and Metropolitan Fringes Adriαn Gorelik, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Roles of the Periphery in Buenos Aires: from the Expansive City to the Archipelago City You-tien Hsing, UC Berkeley Village Corporatism, Metropolitan Real Estate, and Local Autonomy in Southern China Discussant: Li Zhang, UC Davis Saturday 7 February 9am-5:30pm Howard Room Faculty Club http://www.berkeleyfacultyclub.com/ 9:00 11:30am Panel 5 Citizenship In-Formations OrenYiftachel, Ben-Gurion University - The Politics of Gray-Space: Radicalizing the Invisibles in Israel/Palestine Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town Democratic Renovations of the City James Holston, UC Berkeley Rights to the City Repositioned Discussant: David Theo Goldberg, UC Humanities Research Institute 1:00-3:00pm Panel 6 Peripheral Recognitions Mona Harb, American University of Beirut Peripheral Claims for the Right to the City: Leisure Geographies of Pious Morality in Beiruts Southern Suburb (with Lara Deeb) Josep Ramoneda, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona Peripheries and the Question of Recognition Discussant: James Ferguson, Stanford University 3:30-5:30pm Open Discussion among All Participants  |
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