urbanHIST NWWW1/Kick-off Meeting en Weimar

A partir de mañana jueves y hasta el próximo sábado se celebrará en Weimar (Alemania) la primera Network-Wide Workshop Week (NWWW1) y Kick-off del European Joint Doctorate “urbanHIST”, en el que participa el Instituto Universitario de Urbanística. En las semanas anteriores ya se han ido incorporando a sus puestos 10 de los 15 doctorandos del programa, y los restantes lo harán próximamente. Esta reunión pretende servir como primera oportunidad para que se conozcan personalmente entre sí, acompañados por sus directores y codirectores, por los directores y coordinadores de cada una de las cuatro universidades participantes así como por representantes del resto de organizaciones tanto académicas como profesionales que colaboran en el proyecto.

El programa previsto es el siguiente:

Jueves 4 de mayo

8h30 Registration

9h30 Words of welcome, Opening

Winfried Speitkamp, President Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Barbara Schönig, Vice-Dean Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
Max Welch Guerra, urbanHIST Project Director

10h30 Writing the History of European Urbanism in the 20th Century: an Interdisciplinary, Paneuropean Project – the Programmatic Approach of urbanHIST | opening statements

Max Welch Guerra (Project Director): “urbanHIST: three leading questions and their function for the project”
Martin Pekar (Local Director UPJŠ): “The other half of Europe”
Maria Castrillo (Local Director UVa): “100 years expanding tasks: urban issues and the evolution of 20th century urbanism in Europe”
Abdellah Abarkan (Local Director BTH): “ Planning for growth as a mission”
Max Welch Guerra (Local Director BUW): „Understanding Complexity“

11h30 Coffee

11h45 Introduction of Early Stage Researchers and Partner Organisations I

12h45 Lunch

14h00 Introduction of Early Stage Researchers and Partner Organisations II

15h00 Perspectives on urbanHIST: Partner Organisation statements

Claudia Quiring, Curator Architecture/Urban Development/History of Dresden ar Dresden City Museum
Manon Kempinaire, Fondation CIVA Stichting Département Architecture Moderne

16h00 Coffee & networking

16h45 Organisation and structure of urbanHIST: advisory board (brief presentation of its members), urbanHIST tools (Manual, website, newsletter…), boards and formats etc.

17h45-18h30 Break

18h30-20h00 Topography of Modernity – Thematic Walk

Viernes 5 de mayo

09h30 urbanHIST-lecture: The Theoretical Construction of the City. Source studies and the renewal of urban historiography

Eliana Perotti, ETH Zurich, urbanHIST Advisory Board

10h30 Parallel sessions: ESR-Supervisor-Meetings (CDP), networking ESR-PO-Advisory Board

12h30 Lunch

14h00 ESR Workshop 1: Good scientific practice (Trainer: Julia Verse, Berlin) – Consortium: Committee meetings

18h00 ESR representative and board members election

Sábado 6 de mayo

09h00 Workshop 2: Researching history – methodological reflections

12h00 Conclusion of the meeting, outlook

13h00 Break

14h00-18h00 ESR Workshop 3: Intercultural communication and diversity (Trainer: Julia Verse, Berlin)