Session 1: A Logic of Urbicide?

Thursday 24 November, 9.15am-10.45am

Chair: Dan Monk

Martin Coward
Against anthropocentricism: The destruction of the built environment as a distinct form of political violence.

Kerem Öktem
Murderous ethnic cleansing, genocide and ‘urbicide’: Diffusing agency, obscuring intentions?

Andrew Herscher
Modernism, urban destruction and the genealogy of spatial violence in Kosovo.

Session 2: Neoliberal Urbicides?

Thursday 24 November, 11am-12.30pm

Chair: Stephen Graham

M. Anne Pitcher & Aubrey Graham
Cars are killing Luanda: Cronyism, Consumerism and other Assaults on Postwar Angola’s Capital City.

Anders Lund Hansen
The new urban imperialism: Space wars, Urbicide and the urban tango of vagabond capitalism.

Susannah Bunce & Deborah Cowen
Competitive cities and secure nations: Conflict and convergence in urban waterfront agendas after 9/11.

Session 3: Practices of Urbicide?

Thursday 24 November, 2.00pm-3.30pm

Chair: Stuart Elden

Sofia T. Shwayri
Guerrilla Warfare and the Annihilation of Urban Space: Beirut, 1975-1976.

Caroline Croser
Networking security in the space of the city: changing military spatialities and the body of the city.

Eyal Weizman
Walking through walls.

Deborah Cowen
National soldiers and the war on cities: Geographies of perpetual war.

Session 4: A Culture of Urbicide?

Thursday 24 November, 4.00pm-5.30pm

Chair: Alex Jeffrey

Stefan Kurath
The Killing Aspect of Single-Family Houses: Complex Unit – The Single-Family House in Periurban Surroundings.

Eduardo Mendieta
The Literature of Urbicide: Sebald, Nossack, Vonnegut, and Friedrich.

Rachel Woodward
Narratives of destruction and survival: living in urban war zones.

Nurhan Abujidi et al.
Forced to Forget: Cultural Identity and Collective Memory of Urbicide. The Case of the Palestinian Territories…

Session 5: Post-Conflict Urbicides?

Friday 25 November, 9.00am-10.30am

Chair: Maja Zehfuss

Martin J. Murray
Post-Apartheid Dumping Grounds. The Case of Greater Johannesburg.

Damien Mate & Simon Philpott
Another go at Life: Dili, Timor Leste.

Michael Q. Dudley
Revisiting Cold War Ideology in the Secure City.

Nadia Capuzzo Derkovic
How to recover from an urbicide: Sarajevo’s cultural and urban heritage.

Session 6: Planning Urbicide?

Friday 25 November, 11.00am-12.30pm

Chair: Louise Amoore

Nadia Abu-Zahra
Counterplanning? Maps in litigation, negotiation and beyond

Matthias Bernt
Live and let die? Declining Cities and Urban Planning in Eastern Germany.

Simon Marvin
The Demise and Revival of Manchester: from terrorist bombing to renaissance city.

Session 7: Juridical Urbicide?

Friday 25 November, 2.00pm-3.30pm

Chair: Marcus Power

Vivian Bickford-Smith
“Cape Town’s Hiroshima”: Group Areas Act destruction of communities in Cape Town, South Africa, during the apartheid years.

Stefan Kipfer and Kanishka Goonewardena
Colonization and the New Imperialism: On the Meaning of Urbicide Today

David Turns
Laws of War and Urban Warfare.

Session 8: An Aesthetic of Urbicide? Photographic Presentation and Plenary

Friday 25 November, 4.00pm-6.00pm

Chair: David Campbell

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, The IDF ‘Chicago’ site [to be confirmed].

Followed by panel discussion including all workshop participants.