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10.00 – 10.30: Registration and Coffee
10.30 – 11.30: Keynote
Lila Leontidou, Hellenic Open University
The ‘Soft City’ of European Power Elites: Athens, from ‘cradle of civilization’ to ‘Oriental’ margin.
11.30 – 12.30 Section 1: Critical Cartographies
Chair: Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Debra Benita Shaw, University of East London
Towards a Performative Cartography of Urban Space
Rhiannon Firth, University of East London
Critical cartography as anarchist method? Utopian extrapolation and pedagogy
Coffee Break
12.45 – 14.00 Section 2: Walking in the City
Chair: Theofanis Exadaktylos
Yannis Kallianos, St Andrews University
Techniques of navigation and walking in a city in crisis; social conflicts, public memory and social change in Athens
Steve Thorpe, University of East London
Walking the city with Sudanese forced migrants in Cairo
Kimberly May Ross, University of Liverpool
Social boundaries in urban space after regeneration; a case study of Liverpool UK and Liverpool One
Lunch Break
15.00 – 16.30 Section 3: The City: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Chair: Angie Voela
Steve Pile, Open University
The Distributed Unconscious: what happens in Vegas?
John Adlam, South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust
On Agoraphilia: a Psychosocial Account of the Defence and Negotiation of Public/Private Spaces
Judith Edwards, Tavistock
Seeing and being Seen: The dialectics of intimate space in the city and Anthony Gormley’s ‘Event Horizon
Coffee Break
16. 45 – 18.00 Section 4: Art and the Urban
Chair: Aylwyn Walsh
Konstantinos Avramidis, University of Edinburgh
The Architectural Surface as Palimpsest: Reading an Athenian Wall
Sasha Engelmann, University of Oxford
Active Surfaces: The Relational Experience of Dryden Goodwin’s Breathe
Jane Clossick, London Metropolitan University
Finding Depth
18.00- 19.00 Drinks
Screening: Michael Chronopoulos
Eksegersi (Uprising) or Mother’s Recipe for Boiled Eggs
Exhibition: Ministry of Untold Stories – Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Visual Dialogues on the Urban Landscape: Athens
