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Subject: [RK] The Neoliberal Frontline: Urban Struggles in Post-Socialist
Societies
From:    "Matteo Pasquinelli" <matteopasquinelli la gmx.it>
Date:    Mon, December 1, 2008 18:56
To:      rekombinant la liste.rekombinant.org
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The Neoliberal Frontline: Urban Struggles in Post-Socialist Societies
Zagreb, 4. 12. - 7. 12. 2008. Community Center Mosor, Zvonimirova 63


The Neoliberal Frontline is an international conference aimed to reflect
on transformations of cities, urban landscapes and urban governance in
Croatian and other post-socialist societies in the Eastern Europe at a
moment of urgency when the development of cities in those societies
increasingly comes under pressure of neoliberal policies and economic
overexploitation of space.

The conference will take stock of the following issues: effects of
globalization and transition in the context of East-European cities,
introduction of neoliberal governance instruments, city-planning
policies damaging public interest for the benefit of business,
dismantling of process of citizen participation, urban struggles against
disfranchisement of citizens and cultural practices contesting
privatization of public space.

Many of the developments that can be observed in East-European cities
resemble urban developments in Western societies in the post-industrial
and globalizing 80-ties and 90-ties, yet are characterized by
particularities of post-socialist transition - a transition marked by
democratic deficits, corruption of public governance, failed
privatization of economy and now economic pressures on space.

And while developments in the Western societies are well researched,
there is not much research and reflection available on the developments
in post-socialist societies. This occasion will provide an opportunity
for international scholars, researchers, urbanists, urban activist
groups, cultural practitioners and local initiatives to look into those
early research efforts and expand on them with first-hand accounts from
the participating actors.

Alongside keynotes and panels with interventions by those different
actors, the conference will also include work sessions and meetings of
local practitioners and concerned citizens, civil initiatives from
across Croatia, and urban activist groups from across former Yugoslavia.
Conference team:

Petar Milat (coordinator), Tomislav Medak, Leonardo Kovačević, Marko
Sančanin

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Conference Programme


Thursday, 4.12.2008.

    20:00-21:00 Keynote 1: Neil Smith

    21:00-23:00 Opening Party (with Pytzek)

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Friday, 5.12.2008.

    11:00-12:00 Panel 1: Scales of Neo-liberalism

    12:00-13:00 Keynote 2: Jason Hackworth

    13:15-14:15 Panel 2: Neo-liberalism at the test of Post-socialist
societies

    14:15-16:00 Break

    16:00-17:15 Panel 3: Urban Struggles and Public Imagination

    17:30-18:45 Panel 4: Neo-liberal Governmentality and Urban
Development

    19:00-20:00 Keynote 3: Boris Buden

    20:00-21:00 Keynote 4: Keller Easterling

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Saturday, 6.12.2008.

    11:00-12:00 Keynote 5: Ines Weizman

    12:00-14:15 Panel 5: Dissenting Architecural Practices

    14:15-16:00 Break

    16:00-17:15 Panel 6: Semantics of Emerging Capitalisation

    17:30-18:45 Panel 7: Struggles against Capital Unlimited

    19:00-20:00 Keynote 6: Brian Holmes

    20:00-21:00 Keynote 7: Edi Rama

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Sunday, 7.12.2008.

    12:00-14:15 Meetings / Workshops


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