Program 2024

                                                    3 JUNE 2024

09:30-09:45 Welcome Speech: Tijen Tunali, Art History and Theory, MPI MPG

Artistic Resistance and Sustainable Urban Life

09:45-10:30 Keynote: Prof. Eva Branscome, Architecture and Cultural Heritage, Bartlett School of Architecture

Marching across South Africa: The Vortrekker Monument in Pretoria as a site of Cultural Contestation

                                             COFFEE BREAK 10:30-10:45

SESSION 1 Politics of Public Monuments and Cultural Heritage

Chair: Panos Leventis Architecture, Drury University

10:45  Pedro Andrade, Sociology, University of Minho

Urban Arts at Risk: A Critical Sociology Debate on Urban Cultural Heritage Destruction, in the Case of the War on Ukraine

11:05  Voica Pușcașiu, Art History, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

This Is Where I Draw the Line: Creative Interventions on Public Monuments in the East of Europe and the Global South

11:25  Iuliia Eremenko, Political Science, University of Warsaw

Between Creativity and Conservation: The Dynamics of Street Art Expertise in World Heritage Hanseatic Cities in Poland and Germany

11:45-12:15 Q&A and discussion

                                       LUNCH 12:15-13:00

SESSION 2 Public Art and the Making of Urban Space

Chair: Tijen Tunali, Art History and Theory, MPI MPG

13:00 Leah Modigliani, Visual Studies, Tyler School of Art and Architecture 

Counter Revanchist Art, Infrastructures of Disorder, and the Open City

13:20 Anna Dempsey, Art History, University of Massachusetts

New Orleans’ Public Art Interventions: Focus on the Environment

13:40 Marisa Ferreira, Visual Arts, Royal College of Art London

Reimagining Public Art through Waste Matter and Spatial Justice

14:00-14:30 Q&A and discussion

                                    COFFEE BREAK 14:30-15:00

SESSION 3 Artistic Activism in Global South Public Spaces

Chair: Joshka Wessels, Media and Communication, Malmö University

15:00 Kehinde Christopher Adewumi, Art Criticism, Durban University of Technology

Walls, Spray Paint and the Urban Space: The Graffiti Artists of Durban and their Navigation of Boundaries

15:20 Suleiman Taan, Arabic Studies, Oman Sohar University

The Struggle Over Public Space: Street Art in the Syrian War

15:40 Anna Helfer, Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

Artistic Interventions in Dakar: Yataal Art, Its Claim for the City, and Its Aim  for Societal Sensitization through Urban Art

16:00 Maximilian Leopold Langefeld, Art History, Oxford University

Beijing in Flux: Queer Art and the Ephemeral Urban in Contemporary China

16:20-17:00 Q&A and discussion

                                             4 JUNE 2024

09:30-10:15 Artist Presentation: Kathryn Gohmert, Public Arts, Bauhaus University

 Interaction, Connection and Memory in Public Arts

                                  COFFEE BREAK 10:15-10:30

SESSION 4 Art and Urban Commons

Chair: Konstantinos Avramidis, Architecture, University of Cyprus

10:30 Mel Jordan, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University and P Andrew      Hewitt, Art   and Design Research Centre, University of Northampton

From Culture-Led Regeneration to Culture-Led Re-Commoning

10:50 Jessie Brennan and Denise Evans-Barr, Visual Communication, Royal College of Art,  London

‘Custom House Our House’: Visualising A Case for Community-Led        Regeneration

11:10 Konstantinos Avramidis, Architecture, University of Cyprus and Constantinos  Diamantis, Culture, Creative Media and Industries, the University of Thessaly

Shared and Invented Urban (Hi) Stories: Reflecting on the Creation of a Participatory Community Mural in Athens

11:30-12:00 Q&A and discussion

                                            LUNCH 12:00 -12:45

SESSION 5 Urban Conflicts and Artistic Struggles

Chair: Ilaria Hoppe, Art History and Theory, Katholische Privat-Universität Linz

12:45 Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández, Art History, University of Nevada – Reno

Street Art, DIWOY-O and Direct Action in 2021 Cali’s Social Outbreak

13:05 Oleksandra Nenko, Landscape Studies, University of Turku

Mitigating Displaced Place Identities of the Wartime Cities in Ukrainian Arts

13:25 Kerstin Nieman, Arts Management,University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Art, Migration and Placekeeping in a Single-Family Home Neighborhood in Detroit

13:45-14:15 Q&A and discussion

                                             COFFEE BREAK 14:15-14:30

SESSION 6 Contemporary Art, Urban Ecologies and Sustainable Futures

Chair: Anna Dempsey, Art History, University of Massachusetts

14:30  Hauke Ohls, Art History, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Art and the Urbanocene

14:50  Petr Vasat,Sociology,Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Persuasive Ecologies: Macro-Paintings in Latin America Between Situated and Durable More-than-Human Governance

15:10  Johannis Tsoumas, Art History, University of West Attica and Helen  Gemtou, Art History, National and Kadodistrian University of Athens

Momentary and Timeless: Examining the Ephemeral Monumentality of Tadashi Kawamata’s Urban Eco-art in-Situ Installations

15:30-16:00 Q&A and discussion

16:30-17:30 ONLINE BOOK PRESENTATION: Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities

Sacha Kagan, editor, Transdisciplinary research on culture and sustainability, Universität Hildesheim

19:30-21:30 Conference Dinner at RestaurantZum Szültenbürger, Prinzenstraße 7, Göttingen

                                       5 JUNE 2024

TRIP TO KASSEL

10:16-10:35 ICE 73  Train from Göttingen Bahnhof/ZOB to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe

11:00-14:00 Visiting the UNESCO site Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe and Castle with Museum

14:00-15:30 Lunch in the city

15:30-17:30 Street art walk

18:26-19:03 Return to Göttingen

Bus 100 Bus from Kassel Houbtbahnhof to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe

ICE 276 Train from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe to Göttingen Bahnhof/ZOB