Tuesday, May 10th, CUNY Graduate Center Room 5414
Mini Conference of the Working Group on Public Space:
Which space for the Public?
Program
| 4:00 | Setha Low (CUNY Graduate Center) Keynote Address |
| 4:15-6:00 | Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, (CUNY Graduate Center), Fernando Domínguez Rubio (NYU) Idalina Baptista, (Oxford University) Enclosures within enclosures: privatization practices, uneven development and the governance of hurricanes in Cancun (Yucatan, Mexico) |
| Greg Smithsimon (CUNY Brooklyn College) The Reciprocal Relationship: Public Space and Social Conflict | |
| Goran Janev (Max Plank Institute, Halle ) Narrating the city, Narrating the Nation: The case of Skopje. | |
| Manissa Maharawal (CUNY Graduate Center) No One in this City knows how to be in a City” Hindu Nationalism and Spatial Tactics of the New Urban Middle Class in Ahmedabad, India | |
| Discussant:John Collins (Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY ) | |
| 6:15-8:00 | Aseel Sawalha (Fordham University) Spatial Struggles in a City Square: The Post-Post Era of Beirut |
| Catherine Fennell (Columbia University) Citizenship pedagogy “in public” in Chicago public housing’s wake | |
| Naomi Adiv (CUNY Graduate Center) The Amphibious Public: a social-historical geography of public bathing spaces in NYC | |
| Discussant: Amy Chazkel (Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY) | |
| 8:00 –10:00 | Reception |
The discussion will be inspired by an ephemeral Photo Exposition, featuring works from
Hans Maharawal, Fabio Mattioli, Sam Feather-Garne
