3rd Seminar in the "Where is Urban Politics?" Series: Arts-based practices and urban politics
| When: | Tu 21-01-2025 12:30 - 16:45 |
| Where: | Learning Landscape, University College Groningen |
Join on Tuesday 21 January for a lecture by Rike Sitas, senior researcher at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. Details of her talk are as follows:
Arts-based practices and urban politics
Over the past two decades there have been increasing ‘urban turns’ in art, and ‘artful turns’ in urban studies across the world. In many ways the positive role of arts in urban justice has been exuberantly asserted, and in some places, well-funded. But circulation of Anglophone global North perspectives have been more energetically enabled than those from elsewhere. In this talk I will reflect on quieter forms of artful “activism without announcement’ (Mlandu, 2022), paying attention to intersectional feminist and queer initiatives and the role they play in troubling politics and power dynamics in, between, and from African cities.
Rike's talk will be followed a response by Senka Neuman-Stanivukovic of the Transitions and Social Justice Group from the Rudolf Agricola School, as well as time for questions and discussion. You are warmly invited to join us for drinks afterwards.
This event is organised as part of the kick-off of the Erasmus+ partnership project ACT-UP! Active Citizenship through Theatre for Urban Politics.
Schedule - Project kick-off ACT UP! and WUP lecture
12.30 - 13.45 - lunch
14.00 - 15.00 - ACT-UP! project presentation with the project partners
15.15 - 16.45 - ‘Where is Urban Politics?’ lecture by Rike Sitas
Venue:
Learning Landscape
University College, University of Groningen
Hoendiepskade 23/24
All guests are invited for drinks afterwards!