8th ART and the CITY Conference
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
Nicosia
10-13 June 2026
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Program 2026ART, URBAN ECOLOGIES AND THE CITYWEDNESDAY 10 JUNE
WELCOME COFFEEWELCOME SPEECH 10:00-10:15 Konstantinos Avramidis, Architecture, University of Cyprus 10:15-10:30 Tijen Tunali, Art History, Leuphana University
KEYNOTE SPEECH 10:30-11:30 Panos Leventis, Architecture, Drury University Egg, Potatoes, and Conflict: Graffiti and Street Art on the Ruins of Late Modern Architecture in Beirut
SESSION 1 Graffiti Writing in the Evolving Contemporary City Chair: Konstantinos Avramidis, Architecture, University of Cyprus 11:30-11:50 Reza Tavakoliabandansari, Sapienza University of Roma Terminological Distinctions: Mural Art, Graffiti, and Vandalism in the Analysis of Street Art 11:5012:10 Heather Shirey, University of St. Thomas; David Todd Lawrence, University of St. Thomas Marking the Cityscape: BLM Street Murals and Black Annotation in Tulsa, OK. 12:10-12:30 Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore Where is the Theory in the Scholarly Study of Graffiti and Street Art? 12:30-13:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION
LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 2 Street Art, Public Space, and Urban Negotiation Chair: Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore 14:00-14:20 Mateusz Lipko, University of Szczecin Soft Hooligan: How Pogoń Szczecin Murals Reshape Urban Space and Public Sensibilities 14:20-14:40 Paris X. Tsiropinas, University of Aegean; Thanassis Chouliaras, University of Athens Island Street Art as Design and Islandness: Art-Critical Perspectives from the Greek Islands 14:40-15:00 Eynat Mendelson-Shwartz, Tel Aviv University Where Can We ‘listen’ to Street Art and Who Do We Hear? A Look into Street Art Regulation and the Democratisation of Public Spaces 15:00-15:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION
AFTERNOON TEA
SESSION 3 Nicosia In-Between: Art, Architecture, and Divided Urban Realities Chair: Panos Leventis, Drury University 16:00-16:20 Vicky Pericleous, Cyprus University of Technology Studies for a Place: Exercises of Alterities 16:20-16:40 Christakis Christofi, University of Cyprus Reframing Suspended Topologies. 16:40-17:00 Alice Buoli, Politecnico di Milano; Popi Iacovou, University of Cyprus; Socrates Stratis, University of Cyprus Collective Diaries for Nicosia’s Transnational Spaces: Visual Ethnography as Critical Spatial Practice 17:00-17:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION
THURSDAY 11 JUNE
MORNING COFFEEKEYNOTE SPEECH Artist-Academic Talk 10:00-11:00 Cecile Sachs Olsen, Oslo Metropolitan University Emancipatory politics at its limits? Socially engaged art, urban politics and the challenge of profound socio-ecological transformation
SESSION 4 Artistic Engagements with Environment in Diverse Urban Contexts Chair: Tijen Tunali, Leuphana University 11:00-11:20 Philip Schnell, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Yun Zhang, University of Lisbon Metamorphosis: Visualizing Plant-Based Perception in the Trans-species City 11:20-11:40 Josepha Wessels, Malmö University Art and Environmentalism in the Sudanese Diaspora 11:40-12:00 Diana Raisa Laura Lolici, Babes-Bolyai University; Voica Puscasiu, Babes-Bolyai University Street Art Responses to Environmental Degradation in Romania 12:00-12:20 Nikolay Smirnov, University of Kassel City Image, Artistic Projecteering, and the Environmental Approach in Russian Geocultural Urbanism 12:20-13:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION
LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 5 Alternative Imaginaries in Theory and Practice Chair: Susan Hansen, Middlesex University 14:00-14:20 Cecilia Brazioli, University of Milan Evaluating the City Surfaces: Graffiti Writing and Street Art in Contemporary Urban Spaces 14:20-14:40 Inga Byrden, University of Winchester Narrating the City: Text, Texture, Form 14:40-15:00 Susan Hansen, Middlesex University Practices of Negative Curation: On the Erasure, Defacement and Destruction of Art on the Streets 15:00-15:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION AFTERNOON TEA
SESSION 6 Spatial Politics, Art and Urban Subjectivities Chair: Josepha Wessels, Malmö University 16:00-16:20 Socrates Stratis, University of Cyprus Spatial Practices for Supporting Urban Subjectivities in Con-tested Spaces 16:20-16:40 Charis Nika, University of Cyprus Critical Urban Practices for Spatial Justice: The Coast of Larnaca, Cyprus 16:40-17:00 Panagiotis Ferentinos, University of Ioannina Printed on the City’s Skin: Artistic Practice as Urban Commentary through a Circus Poster 17:00-17:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION
FRIDAY 12 JUNEMORNING COFFEEKEYNOTE SPEECH Artist Presentation 10:00-11:00 Todd Lowery, Drury University In Place/Of Memory
SESSION 7 Cultural Memory, Monumentality and Monuments in the City Chair: Oleksandra Nenko, University of Turku 11:00-11:20 José Vela Castillo, IE University So Many Memories, So Many People 11:20-11:40 Lina Michelkevičė, Vilnius Academy of Arts Monumentality in the Ephemeral: Smoke and Vapor as Memorial Techniques 11:40-12:00 Zohreh Soltani, New York University From the Space to Dream, and Back Again: Recycled Monuments and Staged Futures in Iran 12:00-12:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION LUNCH BREAK
ROUND TABLE Art and Education, Cultural Institutions and the City Chair: Konstantinos Avramidis, University of Cyprus 13:30-13:45 Elena Stylianou, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 13:45-14:00 Evanthia Tselika, University of Nicosia 14:00-14:15 Twenty-Three, Street Artist 14:15-15:00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION AFTERNOON TEA
BOOK LAUNCH Art and Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa Chair: Tijen Tunali, Leuphana University 15:30-15:45 Tijen Tunali, Leuphana University 15:45-16:00 Josepha Wessels, Malmö University 16:00-16:30 Q&A AND DISCUSSION
CONFERENCE DINNER
SATURDAY 13 JUNE
10:00-13:00 STREET ART TOUR, an optional tour with a local street artist *TBC
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