Wednesday 20th March 2013
2 pm – 7 pm
Sciences Po
Salle Goguel (Building B, 5th floor)
56, rue des Saints-Pères
75007 Paris
SEMINAR
Squatting in Paris.
A view from a European perspective
Squatting Europe Kollective is a research network focusing on the squatters’ movement. Its aim is to produce reliable and fine-grained knowledge about this movement not only as an end in itself, but also as a public resource, especially for squatters and activists. Critical engagement, transdisciplinarity and comparative approaches are the bases of our project. The group is an open transnational collective whose members represent a diversity of disciplines and fields of interest seeking to understand the issues associated with squats and social centres across Europe.
Website :http://sqek.squat.net
Programme
2pm: Welcome and presentation of the SQEK Book,Squatting in Europe: radical spaces, urban struggles, Minor Compositions, Autonomedia, 2013.
Squatting in Europe aims to move beyond the conventional understandings of squatting, investigating its history in Europe over the past four decades. Historical comparisons and analysis blend together in these inquiries into squatting in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and England. In this book, members of SqEK (Squatting Europe Kollective) explore the diverse, radical, and often controversial nature of squatting as a form of militant research and self-managed knowledge production.
Debates:
2.30 pm: What is a research-action collective?
3.30 pm: French experiences
5 pm: The institutionalization in debate
Free entrance
Contact: thomas.aguilera@sciences-po.org