Venue:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Sozialwissenschaften -
Universitätsstraße 3b - Room 202 [on google maps]
| Date |
Morning
(9 am – 1 pm) |
Early afternoon
(2 pm – 4 pm) |
Late afternoon
(4 pm – 6 pm or
5 pm – 6:30 pm) |
| Saturday 17 August |
Arrival |
Welcome |
| Introducing Berlin: Berlin's ambiguity in the world economic crisis– Ares Kalandides (InPolis, Berlin) |
| Social event |
| Sunday 18 August |
Presentations on Berlin by a panel of local PhD students
Henrik Schultze
(gentrification)
Julia Nast
(Neighbourhood effects and education…)
Lisa Vollmer (Social movements and Housing)
Nihad El_kayed (political participation and neighbourhood effects)
Christine Barwick
(Housing and migrants) |
Berlin tour 1
(2:00pm 6:00pm) |
Free |
| Monday 19 August |
Student presentations on their own research and their urban research sites |
| Tuesday 20 August |
Session 1: Mixed methods in the study of shrinking and growing cities
Matthias Bernt
Jeremy Seekings |
Group study |
Discussion |
| Wednesday 21 August |
Session 2:
Governance, urban policy and discourse analysis
Claire Colomb
Henrik Lebuhn |
Group study |
Discussion |
| Thursday 22 August |
Free morning |
Berlin tour 2
(1:00pm 4:30pm) |
Round table on Urban Activism with: Margit Mayer, Henrik Lebuhn, Kanishka Goonewardena |
| Friday 23 August |
Session 3: Expressing inequalities, changing the urban form
(qualitative interviews/urban ethnography)
Talja Blokland
Birgit zu Nieden |
Group study |
Free |
| Saturday 24 August |
Visual Ethnographies
Christine Hentschel
Claire Colomb |
Group exercises (visual ethnography)? |
| Sunday 25 August |
Free day |
| Monday 26 August |
Session 4: Mixed methods
Tim Butler
Yuri Kazepov |
Group study |
Discussion |
| Tuesday 27 August |
Session 5: Capital forms and their spatial expressions
(social networks)
Eduardo Marques
Talja Blokland |
Group study |
Discussion |
| Wednesday 28 August |
Session 6: Theory and Method
(Theorizing and mapping)
Neil Brenner
Andrej Holm |
Group study |
Discussion |
| Thursday 29 August |
Free |
RC21 conference:
opening plenary |
RC21 conference reception |
| Friday 30 August |
RC21 conference |
RC21 conference |
RC21 conference |
| Saturday 31 August |
RC21 conference |
RC21 Berlin tours |
Free |
| Sunday 1 September |
Session 7: Resilient cities
(methods for comparing north/south urban ethnographies)
Suzanne M. Hall
Christine Hentschel |
Group study |
Presentations of group exercises |
| Monday 2 September |
Publishing
(with exercises)
Mike Raco |
Fund-raising
(with exercises)
Yuri Kazepov |
Closing dinner |
| Tuesday 3 September |
Departure |
