Programme

Programme Overview
Keynote Speakers
Keynotes
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Programme Overview
09:00 - 10:30
Registration
Paper session 1
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Welcome Keynote
12:30- 14:00
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Pitch your book
14:00- 16:00
Paper session 2
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00
Paper session 3
18:00 - 23:00
City Hall Reception
09:00 - 10:30
Paper session 4
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Semi-plenary sessions
Picnic talks
12:30- 14:00
Lunch
14:00- 16:00
Paper session 5
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00
Keynote 2
18:00 - 23:00
Poster award
Dinner party
09:00 - 10:30
Paper session 6
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Paper session 7
12:30- 14:00
Snacks, fruits and coffee
14:00- 16:00
Keynote 3
16:00 - 17:30
Paper Session 8
17:30 - 23:00
Excursions

Please note that this is only a preliminary overview, and changes may occur.

Keynote Speakers

Javier Auyero

Javier Auyero

IJURR, University of Texas at Austin
Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country. His main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban poverty, political ethnography, and collective action. He is the author of many books among them Poor People’s Politics, Patients of the State, and (together with anthropologist Débora Swistun), Flammable. Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. His most recent book is Squatter Life (co-authored with anthropologist Sofía Servián). More than a decade ago Javier founded the Urban Ethnography Lab at UT-Austin, and he is the current editor of the book series Global and Comparative Ethnographies at Oxford University Press.
Vanesa Castán Broto

Vanesa Castán Broto

University of Sheffield
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Mario L. Small

Mario L. Small

Columbia University
Mario L. Small, Ph.D., is Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, a University of Bremen Excellence Chair, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and other academic societies. Small has published award-winning articles and books on urban inequality, personal networks, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods. His books include Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio; Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life; Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice; and the co-authored Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. Small is currently studying the the ability of large-scale data and new technologies to answer critical questions about urban inequality.

Keynotes

Reflecting on three decades of social scientific inquiry, this talk examines the many reasons why urban research still needs ethnographic fieldwork to understand and explain the making (and potential unmaking) of inequality and marginality. The talk focuses on three specific topics that should command the systematic and granular attention of urban researchers: poor people’s strategies of persistence, dark governance, and successful grassroots initiatives.

Speaker: Javier Auyero

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Speaker: Vanesa Castán Broto

The social sciences are in the midst of a revolution in access to data, as governments and private companies have accumulated vast digital records of rapidly multiplying aspects of our lives and made those records available to researchers. The accessibility and comprehensiveness of the data are unprecedented. How will the data revolution affect the study of social inequality? I examine the new opportunities and limitations of new availability of data and technology on our ability to answer important questions in urban inequality, based on ongoing empirical research on neighborhoods and economic inequality.

Speaker: Mario L. Small

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2025

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