WHOSE CITY? A WEBINAR SERIES ON THEATRE AND GENTRIFICATION

Zapraszamy do udziału w drugiej serii webinarów „Whose City?”, gdzie przyjrzymy się bliżej relacjom między teatrem a przemianami metropolii XXI wieku. Dołącz do dyskusji! Cykl organizowany w ramach projektu badawczego “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City” przy wsparciu ERC

Poniedziałki, g. 18 (CET), online

Daty: 20. 10. 2025

17.11. 2025

16.02. 2026

16.03. 2026

13.04. 2026

“Whose City?” is a Webinar Series organized by the members of “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City”, a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant Program. Combining multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, our goal is to analyze the relationship between theatre practices and urban transformation in five European metropoles in the twenty-first century: London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Istanbul. Theatre, we propose, is central to understanding the cultural politics of urban transformation today. In turn, contemporary cities, where culture is part and parcel of a new productive economy, are key to understanding theatre.

In “Whose City?”, we bring together both emerging and established scholars working at the intersection of Theatre and Performance Studies and Urban Studies and exploring a range of methodologies in humanities research. Together, we ask: what is the relationship between theatre and the twenty-first century city? And how do we document this elusive bond?

When: Mondays @ 6 pm (CET)

Event Duration: 60-75 min.

Language: English

ZOOM: http://bit.ly/3JSoXg

Speakers:

OCTOBER 20, 2025 – Deniz Başar (with Inci Olgun), Sabancı University & Mimar Sinan University ÇAK and Tophane: Precarious Practices of Respect and Co-Existence in Gentrifying Istanbul

NOVEMBER 17, 2025 – Gemma Kerr, University of Surrey Regeneration and Performance in UK Cities: Walking and Mapping Narratives of Home

FEBRUARY 16, 2026 – Bérénice Hamidi, University of Lyon 2 The Cities of Political Theatre in France in 2026

MARCH 16, 2026 – Paweł Sztarbowski, Powszechny Theatre The Theatre that Interferes: The Role of Theatre in the Urban Transformation of Warsaw

APRIL 13, 2026 – Hanna Huber, University of Vienna Beyond the City Walls: Socio-Spatial Divides at the Festival OFF d’Avignon

The “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City” project consortium includes the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of the University of London, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the American University of Paris.

For more information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/projects/theagent/webinar