We, the City
Democracy and Innovative Practices of Participation in Berlin and Istanbul
November 2-3-4, 2022
Details will be announced soon
Who are we, the city? Can we find the elements of an egalitarian democratic imaginary and a non-hegemonic conception of ‘we’ by thinking the instances of resistance in Berlin and Istanbul together?
How do residents of Berlin and Istanbul experience, express and resist the physical, political and normative reordering of their cities? Over the course of three days, we invite practitioners and theorists of the urban – activists, cultural producers and scholars alike – to explore various forms of knowledge-production through moderated talks, panels and installations.
THUrsday
15:30 – 17:30
why we're here
WALKING TOUR
// meeting point:
U Mohrenstraße/
EXIT Wilhelmstraße
please register here
Mohamad Othman
FRIday
08:30 – 09:00
registration
// HGS FESTSAAL
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11:30 – 13:00
// HGS FESTSAAL
Tuba İnal Çekİç
Tolga İslam
Anna Kokalanova
Urszula Woźniak
Dİdem Danış and Nihad
El-Kayed (discussants)
SATURDAY
09:15 – 09:45
registration
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
//
17:15 – 18:45
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
David Albilal
Begüm Başdaş
Yener Bayramoğlu
Nazlı Cabadağ
Şevval Kılıç
THURSDAY – SATURDAY
Rough Copies/
Kaba Kopya
INSTALLATION
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
Thu 14:00–18:00
Fri 13:00–21:00
Sat 14:00–18:00
// Tieranatomisches Theater
Sat 10:00–22:00
18:00 – 21:00
Two Contested Cities: Urban Transformation and Resistance in Berlin and Istanbul
FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION
// MOVIEMENTO KINO
Free of charge tickets can be picked up at the Moviemento ticket office the same evening
İmre AZEM
MATTHIAS COERS
Ulrike Hamann (MODerator)
09:00 – 09:45
opening and welcome
// HGS FESTSAAL
Silvia von SteinsdorfF
Ertuğ Tombuş
Urszula Woźniak
Tuğba Yalçınkaya
14:00 – 15:30
// HGS FESTSAAL
Dİdem Danış
Nihad El-Kayed
Serhat Karakayalı
Sİnem Adar (MODerator)
09:45 – 11:00
Spacio-politics: Humboldt Forum, New Taksim, Checkpoint Charlie and the City Quarters
moderated talk
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
Orhan Esen
Theresa Keilhacker
Begüm Başdaş (MODerator)
13:45 – 15:15
Urban Movements: What did we miss?
MODERATED TALK
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
Ayşe Çavdar
Andrej Holm
Kathrin Wildner
(MODerator)
19:00 – 20:00
Resistance through Music – Creating New Spaces
MODERATED TALK
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
Mavİş Güneşer
Gİzem Oruç
Banu Çİçek Tülü (MODerator)
THURSDAY –
FRIDAY
Spaces of Encounter and Change
INSTALLATION
ROOM 122
Thu 14:00–18:00
Fri 09:00–18:00
// HGS
(Humboldt graduate school)
09:45 – 11:15
We, the Invisible Hours, Spaces and Relations of the City: Labouring Istanbul, Labouring Berlin
Moderated Participation of Audience
// HGS FESTSAAL
Stefania Animento
Aslı Odman
15:45 – 17:00
New Migration from Turkey: Feelings, affinities, and creativities
FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION
// HGS FESTSAAL
Özgür Çİçek
Özlem Sarıyıldız
Özlem Savaş
11:15 – 12:45
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
Hİlal Alkan
Anna Steigemann
Denİz Yonucu
Gülçİn Balamir Coşkun (MODerator)
15:30 – 17:00
// AQUARIUM (SÜDBLOCK)
Kristen Biehl
Agata Lisiak
Sema Semİh Togay
Kathrin Wildner
Please indicate which day(S) you would like to attend.
conference conveners
Ertuğ Tombuş, Urszula Woźniak, Tuğba Yalçınkaya
conference committee
Silvia von Steinsdorff, Bettina Emİr,
Ertuğ Tombuş, Urszula Woźniak,
Tuğba Yalçınkaya
Conference coordinator
Irmak Ekin Karel
Conference assistants
Mathis Gann, Lennard Gottmann, Liana Harutyunyan, Kristin Küter, Felix Ochtrop, Maximiliane Schneider
// The conference is organised by the coordination team of the programme „Blickwechsel: Contemporary Turkey Studies“ at the Institute for Social Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and funded bY Einstein Foundation and Stiftung Mercator.