Talks and Q&A | Wednesday October 5 | starts 20.00h | English | 2,50 Euro

At De Verdieping with: Dennis Bos, Robert Grimm and Arnold Reijndorp

During the 5th edition of our series of talkshows and public discussions we will focus on the riots that recently took place in London and quickly spread to other cities in England, leaving several people killed, dozens of people injured and hundreds of buildings looted and burned. As Churchill famously intoned ‘We shape our buildings and then they shape us’. What is the relation between the material city and conflict? Have new urban forms produced new forms of violence? And what is the role of the architect and urban planner in this respect? Can they be blamed and/or can they provide a solution for this enduring problem?

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Speakers include:

Dennis Bos - studied history and received a PhD at the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote his dissertation on the history of the early socialist movement in Amsterdam in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bos worked at the University of Groningen before transferring to Leiden University in 2005. His current research deals with the politics of remembrance and the influence of the Paris Commune of 1871 and its memory within the international socialist, communist and anarchist movements during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Robert Grimm - is lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has substantial experience in studying urban contexts and conducted and participated in several European research projects. Grimm investigated the relationship between global flows and local lives and more specifically migrant communities in Marseilles, France. Back in 2003, during the ‘Globalization and Violence’ conference, he talked about terror and structural violence in an urban setting by describing the case of Algerian immigrants in Belsunce, a suburb of Marseille, where riots broke out in 2009 after the football match Egypt-Algeria (0-1).

Arnold Reijndorp - holds the Han Lammerschair for social-economic and spatial development of new urban areas at the faculty of social and behavioural sciences (UvA). Reijndorp has spent more than 15 years studying the relationship between urban planning and society. He is the author of leading publications such as ‘Buitenwijk’ and, together with Maarten Hajer, ‘Op zoek naar publiek domein’.

The evening will be hosted by Michiel van Iersel (De Verdieping) and Tim Verlaan (UvA); everyone is invited to join the discussion.

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De Verdieping is the fringe programme and project space in restaurant and club TrouwAmsterdam. The building is located at Wibautstraat 127 in Amsterdam.