Friday 1 September

Theme of the day: The Right to the City

09.00-11.00 Registration

11.00-11.45 Welcoming greetings and introductory statements: Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Montreal) TRISE Chair and Svante Malmström (Oulu) TRISE General Secretary

11.45-12.45 Keynote speech: Magali Fricaudet (Barcelona): “From Human Rights in the City to the Right to the City”

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Seminar A: Social Ecology, the City and the State

16.00-16.15 Break

16.15-17.15 Keynote speech: Theodoros Karyotis (Thessaloniki): “Whose right to the city? Collective subjects and urban conflicts in times of crisis”

17.15-17.30 Break

18.30-19.30 Introducing workshops:

18.30-19.30 Parallel workshops:

20.00 Dinner

Saturday 2 September

Theme of the day: Social Ecology

09.00-09.30 Registration

09.30-10.30 Keynote speech: Brian Morris (London): “The legacy of Murray Bookchin”

10.30-10.45 Break

10.45-12.45 Seminar B: Case studies of Urban Struggles

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Keynote speech: Havin Guneser (Hamburg): “From Bookchin to Abdullah Öcalan”

15.00-15.15 Break

15.15-16.45 Seminar C: Turkey and the Kurdish quest

16.45-17.00 Break

17.00-19.00 Workshop: The relevance of Social Ecology for Urban Social Movements (Federico Venturini & Malin Widehammar)

19.30-21.00 Double book launch at Micropolis: Greek edition of The Murray Bookchin Reader by Janet Biehl and of Political Ecology by Dimitrios Roussopoulos.

21.00 Dinner at Micropolis

Sunday 3 September

Theme of the day: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities

09.00-09.30 Registration

09.30-10.30 Keynote speech: Emet Değirmenci (Seattle): “A Social Ecology Approach To Degrowth”

10.30-10.45 Break

10.45-12.45 Seminar D: Concepts and Practices for Social Change

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Parallel workshops:

16.00-16.15 Break

16.15-17.15 Keynote speech: Dan Chodorkoff (Marshfield): “From the present situation going forward”

17.15-17.30 Break

17.30-19.30 Concluding panel: “Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities – How do we move forward?”. Speakers include: Malin Widehammar (Gothenburg), Svante Malmström (Oulu), Havin Guneser (Hamburg), Theodoros Karyotis (Thessaloniki)

20.00 Dinner

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