Conference: Deradicalizing the City

Day 1: Wednesday 23.04

15:30 - 16:45

Arrival and Registration
Venue: T1. Terrarium

16:45 - 17:00

Welcome remarks and Introduction by the organizers
Venue: T1. Terrarium 

17:00 - 18:30

Roundtable 1: Studying Security in Times of War and Conflict
Chair: Hamza Esmili (ULB)
Venue: T1. Terrarium

Roundtable conversation with the team of Deradicalizing the City:
Alex Govers Lopez, Lore Janssens, Farah Kassem, Lamia Mellal (KU Leuven)

19:00 
Conference Dinner (by invitation only)

Day 2: Thursday 24.04

09:00 - 09:30

Registration
Venue: T1. Terrarium

09:30 - 11:00

Keynote panel 1: Future-thinking, state making and security
Chair: Roel Vande Winkel (KU Leuven & LUCA)
Venue: T1. Terrarium

“Speculative Governance: On Potency, Potentiality, and New Modes of Confidence”
Rebecca Bryant (Utrecht University)

“Planting Potentialities – Unlearning Security and Opening the Future”
Martijn de Koning (Radboud University)

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00

Panel 1: The politics and poetics of futuremaking: views from across different fields
Chair: Lore Janssens (KU Leuven)
Venue: T1. Terrarium

• Charles O Warner III (KU Leuven): “We need their hatred of us” (said no one to the researcher): Reflections on un/conscience perceptions of hate in Southeast Europe and hate informed strategies of future security”
• Charlotte Parion (KU Leuven): “Human Augmentation and the Future of Work”
• Sara Bolghiran (Leiden University): “Allahu Akbar: When the Imaginative, the Beautiful, and the Ethical Meet in Muslim Futures”
• Antje Jacobs: “Futures beyond the Anthropocene’s ruins/ruinings”

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch
Venue: T1: Terrarium

14:00 - 15:00

Looped Screening and exhibition

• Short Films and podcasts made by students from Denis Diderot High School, Marseille with Lamia Mellal (KU Leuven) and Farah Kassem (KU Leuven)
• Creative writing by Lore Janssens (KU Leuven) Venue: T3 Cube and Cineacapella

15:00 - 16:45

Panel 2: Studying Security Otherwise
Chair: Lamia Mellal (KU Leuven)
Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

• Salam Yousry (The Choir Project): “Collective creation and temporary communities”
• Samuel vander Straeten (University of Cambridge): “The Racializing Feeling of Being Watched Street Cameras Navigating Antwerp Youth, and Vice-Versa”
• Elien Stouten (Erasmus Mundus 4CITIES): “Participatory operationalization towards inclusive participation. Strengths and pitfalls of a choice menu of methods in a youth participatory neighborhood redevelopment process”
• Andreas Langenohl (Justus Liebig University) & Gideon van Riet (North-West University): “From critical security studies to a politics of endangerment and care”

16:45 - 17:15

Break

17:15 - 18:30

Work-in-progress screening In The Wait of The Catastrophe (rough cut) – Directed by Farah Kassem

Followed by a conversation moderated by Sofia Dati

Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

Day 3: Friday 25.04

09:30 - 11:00

Keynote panel 2: Spaces of Governance, Securitization, and Resistance: The Politics of Fixity, Surveillance, and Care
Chair: Abdellali Hajjat (ULB)
Venue T1. Terrarium

“Governance, space, and the excess of politics”
Mustafa Dikeç (Research Institutes of Sweden)

“In-between Secular Hell and Salvation: The State’s Tough Love and Care for ‘radical Muslims’ in Dutch Schools”
Sinan Çankaya (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00

Panel 3: Securing the future: deradicalization policies and the production of acceptable societies and theologies
Chair: Alex Govers Lopez (KU Leuven)
Venue: T1. Terrarium

• Romain Bertrand (Université de Lyon): “Creating an uncertain future”
• Ana Ivasiuc (University College Dublin): There Is No Security’: Urban Vigilante Practices in Times of Polycrisis
• Zaki Arrobi (Utrecht University): “Negotiating the Limits of ‘Acceptable’ Islam: Deradicalization and Intra-Muslim Contestations in Urban Kampung of Jakarta
• Giulia Macario (Catholic University of Milan): “(De)Radicalizing Jordan: The most American King ruling the most Palestinian Kingdom

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Keynote panel 3: Performing Resistance. Humor, Movement and the politics of creation
Chair: Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven)
Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

“The Clowntastic Lecture-Performance”
Sabine Choucair (Clown Me)

“Chronicle at the border: A correspondence between an anthropologist and a juggler”
Cédric Parizot (IREMAM, CNRS)

15:30 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 17:30

Panel 4: Fractured Grounds, Resilient Visions: Art as a Compass in Times of Crisis
Chair: Farah Kassem
Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

• Nour Ouayda (The Camelia Committee): “Stranger than Fiction: Methods of Weirding Reality in Cinema”
• Dina Brode-Roger (KU Leuven): “(In)security in an Arctic context: how an embodied understanding of place can bring new perspectives to Disaster Risk Reduction / Response (DRR/R)”
• Arman Nouri (Kin Structures): “Community making in the age of organized abandonment: Kin Structures at the Soanes Centre”
• Els Opsomer (KU Leuven): “I see, I see what you don’t see - About the visible invisible in times of ‘global’ terror”

19:00

Conference dinner

Day 4: Saturday 26.04

09:00 - 09:30

Morning coffee
Venue: Coffee Space, Bridge

09:30 - 11:30

Roundtable 2: Two Decades of Radicalization Policies: Reflections on Policy, Society, and Experience in France and Belgium
With Souhaïla Amri, Houssin Ben Ammi, Soraya Guendouz-Arab and Éric Poinsot
Chair: Lamia Mellal (KU Leuven) and Lore Janssens (KU Leuven)
Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

11:30 - 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:15

Roundtable 3: Artistic Creation as Resistance: Exploring Student Experiences Under Post2015 Security Policies in Marseille (In French)
With Teslim B., Amina-Marie L., Léa Drouet, Lamia Mellal and Farah Kassem
Chair: Nadia Fadil Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

13:15 - 13:30

Wrap up and closing comments by conference organizers
Venue: Auditorium C-3.17

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch

Deradicalizing the City is an interdisciplinary research project, bringing together researchers from KU Leuven (KUL), Université libre de Belgique (ULB), and Luca School of Arts.