International Cycle of Lectures | The Right to the City
From: 2019-10-14 To:2020-12-31
Thematic Line
Modern & Contemporary Philosophy
Research Group
Philosophy & Public Space
INTERNATIONAL CYCLE OF LECTURES
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
2019-2020
CASA COMUM, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto
In an increasingly urban world, the city is a unique space to gauge the visibility and relevance of the problems brought about by rapid social, economic, technological, cultural and political change. Appropriated by neoliberal dynamics, the city has become fragmented far beyond its constituent pluralism. Social cohesion may thus be compromised, forcing us to consider other modes of civic participation.
Half a century after Henri Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville was published, the demand for the qualitative recovery of urban life, generated by the growing contradictions of the capitalist society, has come to play a special role in the right to the city. The spatial arrangement of production and wealth, privatisations, bio-political surveillance, migration flows and mobility, widespread urbanisation, tourism and gentrification, climate change, poverty, housing and technocratic management are some of the phenomena that have impacted significantly on contemporary social representations and political dynamics, leading us to rethink the figures of urbanity.
Thus, the aim of this initiative is to think of the city – a privileged place to build the common in all its material and immaterial diversity – through cooperation among different disciplinary approaches that can contribute to contemporary reflection on the multiplicity of phenomena that transform the spaces and the tensions experienced within them.
More information: https://ppscic2019-2020.wixsite.com/righttothecity
LECTURE 1 | 14 October 2019
CITIES WITHOUT INHABITANTS AND THE ERASURE OF THE RIGHT TO THE CITY | CIDADES SEM HABITANTES E A DISSOLUÇÃO DO DIREITO À CIDADE
Sharon Meagher (Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY, USA)
LECTURE 2 | 18 November 2019
A CIDADE PARA TODOS. UMA UTOPIA? | THE CITY FOR ALL. A UTOPIA?
Rubén Lois (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
LECTURE 3 | 9 December 2019
“DIREITO À CIDADE” E CIDADANIA | "THE RIGHT TO THE CITY” AND CITIZENSHIP
Manuel Correia Fernandes (Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto)
LECTURE 4 | 10 February 2020
DIREITO À CIDADE E JUSTIÇA ESPACIAL | THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND SPATIAL JUSTICE
João Ferrão (Geógrafo. Investigador do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa)
LECTURE 5 | 15 June 2020 | Zoom Meeting
THE CITY AS A NORMATIVE SPACE, FROM POLIS TO THE RADIANT CITY | A CIDADE COMO ESPAÇO NORMATIVO, DA POLIS À CIDADE RADIANTE
Francisco Colom González (Research Professor. Institute of Philosophy
Spain’s National Research Council - CSIC)
LECTURE 6 | 12 October 2020 | Zoom Meeting
LA RAZÓN CREATIVA DE LAS CIUDADES | A RAZÃO CRIATIVA DAS CIDADES
Francisco García García (School of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid - UCM)
LECTURE 7 | 20 November 2020 | Zoom Meeting
IRONIA E VIOLÊNCIA: O PODER DE MODELAR A CIDADE EM MAQUIAVEL E TOMÁS MORE | IRONY AND VIOLENCE: THE POWER TO SHAPE THE CITY IN MACHIAVELLI AND THOMAS MORE
José Meirinhos (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Instituto de Filosofia - UP)
Organização:
Research Group Philosophy and Public Space
Apoio técnico, divulgação e comunicação: Irandina Afonso | Isabel Marques
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto - FIL/00502
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia