The Sociology of Contemporary Urban Life
Thursday 16 June
The Lakehouse, Heslington East campus, University of York
10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:45-11:00 Welcome
11:00-12:00 Phil Hubbard (Kent) Hipsters on the High Street: Local Shopping Streets as the New Urban Frontier
12:00-13:00 Panel 1
Andrew Wallace (Leeds) Crafting the Global City: Micro-Brewing, Place, Class and Culture
Marco Copercini (Potsdam) Production, Creativity and the Aestheticization of Private Life as Driving Elements of the Creative Field of the City: Reflections from the Case of Berlin Creative Industries
13:00-13:45 Lunch (provided)
13:45-14:45 Emma Jackson (Goldsmiths) Bowling as Belonging: Urban Spaces of Conviviality Under Austerity
14:45-15:45 Panel 2
Alex Black (Nottingham) Emptied in Anticipation: ‘Meanwhile’ Sites and the Urban Materiality of Waiting for Investment
Rebecca Prescott (Northumbia) Praxis as Practice: Investigating the Artistic Interstitial in Urban Place
15:45-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:00 David Pinder (Roskilde) Melting into Air: Urban Displacement, Demolition and Performance
17:00 Drinks
18:30 Public lecture (York Festival of Ideas)
Richard Sennett (London School of Economics) How Should Cities Grow?
20:00 Meal for speakers at Walmgate Ale House
Friday 17 June
K/133, Kings Manor, University of York
09:30-10:30 Michael Keith (COMPAS, Oxford) Cities of Arrival and the Ethics of the Absent
10:30-12:00 Panel 3
Phil Cohen (Birkbeck) Precarious Knowledge, Precious Lives: Some Ethnographic tales from East London’s Front Lines and Back Yards 1970-2015
Vladimir Rizov and Will Paterson (York) Thinking about Class in the Urban: (in)Visibility in Politics and Documentary Photography
Gareth Millington (York) Horizontal Distributions: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
12:00-12:45 Lunch (provided)
12:45-13:45 Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics)
13:45-14:45 Panel 4
Alena Myshko (L’Aquila) Researching Regeneration Impacts on Urban Context and Social Practices by Applying the Walking Interviews Methodology
Tim Jones (Oxford Brookes) Riding in the Margins: The Contemporary Condition of Cycling as Urban Mobility
14:45-15:00 Coffee
15:00-16:00 Ayona Datta (Leeds) Winners and Losers: “Hashtag Governance” and Digital Citizenships in India’s 100 Smart Cities Challenge