CEE doctoral study days

A space for "place" in the social sciences

Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th December 2023 

Sciences Po, 9 rue de la chaise, 75007 Paris

Day 1 - Wednesday, December 13th - Room 931, 9 rue de la chaise, 75007 Paris

13.30 - 14.00 Welcome coffee

14.00 - 14.15 Welcome address by Florence Faucher and the organising committee

14.15 - 15.45 Panel 1 - “The geography of discontent within French cities: social media, urban peripheries and radical voting“

Chair: Jens Carstens, Sciences Po CEE

Gianluca Risi (Politecnico of Milan) and Théodore Tallent (Sciences Po, CEE) - The online geography of discontent: social media, urban peripheries and radical voting in French cities

Luise Koeppen (University of Groningen) - Voting, people and place: disentangling the Geographies of Brexit

Discussion: Emiliano Grossman and Jens Carstens, Sciences Po, CEE

      15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break

16.15 - 17.45 Panel 2 - “Rural-urban divide in political attitudes and identities“

Chair: Jens Cartens, Sciences Po, CEE

Alina Zumbrunn (University of Bern) - An unrequited conflict: Affective polarisation among ruralites suburbanites and urbanites in Switzerland

Sven Hegewald (ETH Zurich) - Stereotyping along the urban-rural divide: Comparative evidence from Europe

Discussion: Ronja Sczepanski and Théodore Tallent, Sciences Po, CEE

Day 2 - Thursday, December 14th - Room 933, 9 rue de la chaise, 75007 Paris 

10.00 - 10.30 Welcome coffee

10.30 - 12.00 Panel 3 - “Green Transition and the role of Place(s)”

Chair: Théodore Tallent, Sciences Po, CEE

Paul Cukierman (Université Paris Cité) - From urban-rural divides to local ‘green’ exposure: insights into the place-sensitive correlates of climate-friendly lifestyles in France and Germany at the turn of the 2020s

Reja Wyss (University of Oxford) - Disentangling right-wing populist attitudes towards climate change, the environment and nature

Discussion: Joost de Moor and Malo Jan, Sciences Po, CEE

      12.00 - 13.15 Lunch break

13.15 - 15.15 Panel 4.1 - “Place Politicisations: Public Policy Perspective“

Chair: Arno Lizet, Sciences Po, CEE

Anna Ivanova (Justus-Liebig University Giessen) - Decommunization in the Urban Space of Ukraine: Examining the Case of Kharkiv, 2022-2023

Pere Nogues Martin (City University of New York)- The making of a lithium frontier: mining, science and territorial configurations in Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flat

Slava Savova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Solid Structures, Aqueous Healing: Thermal Springs, Balneosanatoria and the New Geographies of Health in Post-War Bulgaria

Discussion: Colin Hay and Arno Lizet, Sciences Po, CEE

      15.15 - 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 - 17.00 Panel 4.2 - “Place Politicisations: Collective Action Perspective “

Chair: Marta Tramezzani, Sciences Po, CEE

Carla Rivera Blanco (LSE) - The Right to Stay: A Fundamental Politics of Space

Anna Hope (University of the West of England) - Community-led housing in England: diverse approaches to collaborative placemaking

Discussion: Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, CEE & Urban School and Marta Tramezzani, Sciences Po, CEE

      17.00 - 17.15 Break

17.15 - 18.00 Keynote: Filippo Barbera (University of Turin)