CITY NIGHTS – Conference Programme & Abstracts, 19-20 May 2022
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Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) – Third International Conference, Leiden University, 19-20 May 2022
Thursday, 19th May – Room 011 Gravensteen, Pieterskerkhof 6 2311 SR Leiden
| 9.00 – Walk in 9.30 – Welcome – Jeroen Touwen, Vice Dean Faculty of Humanities, Leiden 09.45 – Work/Platform Work Chair: Manuela Bodjaziev (Humboldt University) Alessio Kolioulis (University College London) – Building the nocturnal commons: foundational infrastructures for the night Laura-Solmaz Litschel (Humboldt University, Berlin) – Tales of the digitized night – Gig work, Migration and Smart City Julius-Cezar MacQuarie (New Europe College, Bucharest) – Inequalities in siliconised Romanian cities and among digital platform workers Seger Kersbergen (Leiden University) – The Cape Verdean Sailor-Musician Hybrid: Work and Music in the Rotterdam diaspora 11.15 – Coffee break 11:30 – Keynote Chair: Sara Brandellero (Leiden University) Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University) – Geographies of the Night 12:30 – Lunch on campus 13:30 – Queer Infrastructures Chair: Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University) Ben Campkin (University College London) – Queer Infrastructures: Migration and World-making in East London Lo Marshall (University College London) – Who Cares? Exploring caring infrastructures and practices within London’s LGBTQ+ nightlife. Ben Walters (independent researcher) – Homemade mutant hope machines 14.45 – Coffee break 15:00 – (Self-)Governance & Urban Planning Chair: Ben Campkin (University College London) Diana Raiselis (VibeLab) – The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’ Marion Roberts (University of Westminster, London) – Urban Design, Migration & Nocturnal ‘Levelling Up’ Krystian Darmach (University of Lodz) – Migrants, Foreigners and the City Night Life in Lodz – Anthropological View 16.15 – Policy roundtable, Sustainable and inclusive nightlife: past experience and future visions Chair: Alessio Kolioulis (University College London) Ramon de Lima (N8BM A’DAM) – Thys Boer (N8W8, Rotterdam) Alice Fortes (Director Art Studio) – Martijn Braat (Leidse Nachtraad) Isabel Wiltenburg (ClubEthics, Amsterdam) 19:00 – Conference dinner – Restaurant Scheltema, Marktsteeg 1, 2312CS Leiden |
Friday, 20th May – Room 011 Gravensteen, Pieterskerkhof 6 2311 SR Leiden
| 9.00 – Walk in 9.30 – Keynote Chair: Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues (Leiden University) Marco Martiniello (University of Liège) – Are all cats grey in the dark? Encounters and separation in urban cultural nightlife 10.30 – Coffee break 10.45 – Launch session: Urban Pamphleteer #9; Crossings – special issue “Night Stories” 11:15 – Sonic Signatures: How Migrant Music Constitutes the City at Night Chair: Derek Pardue (Aarhus University) Katie Young (University of Limerick) – Music, Memory, and Migration at Night: Relational Ways of Knowing Through Arts-Based Collaborations Ailbhe Kenny (University of Limerick) – “Oh, I didn’t expect that”: The Black Irish Female DJ Journey Nick Dunn (Lancaster University) – Nocturnal Polyphony: Mobile music-making as urban composition 12:30 – Lunch – Restaurant Pakhuis, Doelensteeg 8, 2311VL Leiden 13:45 – Culture/Leisure Chair: Ailbhe Kenny (University of Limerick) Sophia Abidi (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) – From migrants to expats: the case of young Australians in Berlin and their ‘desert island’ syndrome Guillaume Robin (University of Paris) – Facing desocialization : resilience and reconstitution of nocturnal festivities in times of pandemic in the Berlin migrant techno community Tchida Afrikanu (Laboratory for Advanced Studies Observamus, Federal University of Pernambuco)– Tejo Bar: a portal for the cosmopolitics of musicking Chantal Meng (Goldsmiths, University of London) – Let’s Night Draw: Re-writing the Nocturnal Land/Cityscape 15:30 – Film Festival & Keynote (Trianon Cinema, Breestraat 31, 2311CH Leiden) Note change of venue Chair: Sara Brandellero (Leiden University) Will Straw (McGill University, Montreal) – Nocturnalizing: recent cinema’s preoccupation with the urban night Shorts on urban night, migration and culture in London, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, co-produced with the NITE team: Mirage (Created/performed: A. Meghie and E. Yonas; Music: C. Shillingford, UK, 2021) ‘Inhabiting grainy rough drafts of a digital 3D-scan produced under lockdown, the artists reimagine the iconic queer cabaret, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.’ Munganga (dir. Francianne dos Santos Velho, Netherlands, 2022) ‘Theatre bridging cultures in Amsterdam.’ And more! 17:30 – Closing Drinks Organizing committee Sara Brandellero, Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, Seger Kersbergen, Maxime Schut, Angel Perazzetta NB: Lunches and dinners are only provided for invited/speakers and paying attendees. To register as a non-speaking attendee at the conference, or for other conference-related queries, email us at niteconf@hum.leidenuniv.nl For free ticket for short film festival: pretix.eu/niteconf/trianon For news on the NITE project, check our website: nightspace.net |
