PHD – PROGRAM URBEUR 2023-2024

TEACHING MODULE “CITY, CULTURE & DIFFERENCES”

The teaching module City and Culture aims to investigate the growing cultural complexity of contemporary cities with a focus on how constantly changing urban lifestyles, processes of social innovation, and the spatialization of difference rearticulate and reconfigure urban space and fabric.

The objective of the module is to provide Ph.D. students, through the discussion of case studies, with the conceptual and methodological tools to analyze in comparative perspective the cultural ongoing transformations in the most important European cities.

The module includes 7 seminar meetings, according to the following schedule:

21/11/2021, h. 09:30-11:30
Urban queers, queering the urban. some methodological and ethical reflexions from the field
Cecilia Nessi (University of Milano-Bicocca).

23/11/2023, h. 09:30-12:30
The cultural innovation in contemporary cities
Marianna d’Ovidio (University of Milano-Bicocca).
Bertram Niessen (cheFare).

14/12/2020, h. 10:00-13:00
The cultural and creative sector in cities.
Marianna d’Ovidio (University of Milano-Bicocca).

19/12/2023, h. 09:30-12:30
Urban Scene Investigation: Urban amenities, cultural consumption and the proliferation of new middle-class lifestyles and identities
Jan Rath (University of Amsterdam).

3 lectures on Flânerie and urban sociology

5/4/2023, h. 10:00-13:00
Flânerie as a method for exploring the city. From theories to practices
Giampaolo Nuvolati (University of Milano-Bicocca).

12/4/2023, h. 10:00-13:00
Merging collective flânerie and other approaches for developing participation processes. The San Siro case in Milan
Alessandra Terenzi (University of Milano-Bicocca).

19/4/2023, h. 10:00-13:00
(Re)thinking the city. The female gaze through the urban space. The Bari case.
Letizia Carrera (University of Bari).