Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018
6 – 8 pm Keynote lecture by Klaus Weinhauer (University of Bielefeld):
“A Return of a Many-headed Hydra? Spatio-temporal aspects of collective action, social movements, and violence in port cities (c. early 1900s-mid 1920s)”
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018
9.30 – 10 am Introduction by Workshop Organizers
Session 1: Spatio-temporal Practices of Violence and Protest in Cities
10 – 11 am Rhythms, Riots and Security
Ana Ivasiuc (University of Marburg): “Histories, Spatialities, and Rhythms of Anti-Roma Violence in Rome”
Mara Albrecht (University of Erfurt): “Spaces and Rhythms of Urban Violence: Riots in Belfast and Jerusalem during the Era of the British Empire”
Discussant: Sabine Schmolinsky (University of Erfurt)
11.15 am – 12.15 pm Mobility, Security and Disruptions
Alke Jenss (ABI Freiburg): “Disrupting the Rhythms of Violence: Anti-Port Protests in the City of Buenaventura”
Kristin V. Monroe (University of Lexington, KY/USA): “Geopolitics, Mobility and the Dynamics of Risk in Beirut, Lebanon”
Discussant: Viviana García Pinzón (GIGA Hamburg)
Session 2: Memories and Representations of Urban Violence and the Role of Religion
1.15 – 2.45 pm Time, Affect and Religious Imaginations
Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway/Ireland): “Time and Emotion: The Hunger Strike as Protest Tactic”
Fouad Gehad Marei (FU Berlin): “’My Mother Fatima’: Violence, Affect, and Ritual Practice in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs”
Christian Laheij (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle): “Counter-mapping the Divided City: Topographies of Violence and the Religious Imagination in Urban Brazil”
Discussant: Kristin V. Monroe (University of Lexington, KY/USA)
3.15 – 4.15 pm Memorials, Media and Museums
Carolina Rehrmann (University of Jena): “’Europe’s Last Divided Capital’: Nicosia and its Perpetuating Conflict Structures”
Maya A. Weisinger (WBS, Erfurt): “Confederate Memorials and Spatio-Temporal Representations of Violence in the United States”
Discussant: Katharina Waldner (University of Erfurt)
4.15 – 5.15 pm Guided City Tour: "Violence and War in Erfurt – The Past in the Present"
5.15 – 6.45 pm Double-Keynote Lecture + Discussion
Roberto Mazza (University of Limerick, Ireland & SOAS, London/UK): “From Riots to Massacres: How Space and Time Changed Urban Violence in Jerusalem, 1920-1929”
Christine Mady (Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon): “The Mnemonic Dimension of Violence in Beirut’s Markers and Public Spaces”
Friday, Dec. 7, 2018
9.30 – 9.45 am Short wrap-up of the insights gained in the workshop so far
9.45 – 10.45 am Global-local Entanglements and the Production of Urban Violence
Hannes Warnecke-Berger (University of Kassel): “The Spatial Diffusion of Urban Violence? Forms of Violence in El Salvador, Jamaica, and Belize”
Nora Lafi (ZMO, Berlin): “Contemporary Patterns of Urban Violence in the Arab World: A Reflection on the Global/Local and Past/Present Nexuses”
Discussant: Kirsti Stuvøy (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
11 am – 12 pm Theoretical Reflections on the SpaceTime of Urban Violence
Nikolai Roskamm (FH Erfurt): “Urban Contestation as Common Ground - A Short Side Glance into Urban Theory”
Jutta Bakonyi (DGSI, Durham/UK): “Temporality of Violence in the Context of Internationalized Government of Security”
Discussant: Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway/Ireland)
12.30 – 13.30 pm Round Table Discussion: The SpaceTime of Urban Violence
Due to limited seating possibilities, please contact mara.albrecht@uni-erfurt.de for application.