29.06.2025
[Workshop:] Narrating the City
Thursday, 12 February 2026, 10.00 - 20.00 CET; Café Haag, Schloss Hohentübingen, Deutsch-Französisches Kulturinstitut
On Thursday, 12. February, we host the workshop Narrating the City. We will explore different ways of approaching the city together with our international guests, including narrating the city through films, photos, (computer) games, talks, radioactive radiation, and much more. The workshop is open to guests.
Program
10:00
Welcome & Coffee at Cafe Haag, Vor dem Haagtor 1, Tübingen
Opening words: Bani Gill (University of Tübingen / Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
10:30-12:30
Filming the City (Cafe Haag Vor dem Haagtor 1, Tübingen)
Screening of ethnographic film “Survey City”, a film about the mysterious life of documents in a Delhi informal settlement, with film director and anthropologist Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
Discussant: Cansu Civelek (independent researcher).
Moderation: Bani Gill
12.45-13.45
Lunch (Schloss Hohentübingen)
14:00-18:00
Experimenting with Urban Narratives: Crossing approaches, in the Castle (Schloss Hohentübingen), Room 124 (vorderes Fürstenzimmer)
Opening words: Manuel Dieterich (University of Tübingen)
Session 1
Olaf Kühne (University of Tübingen) "Urban Oilscapes—An Approach to Baton Rouge (Louisiana) from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective."
Michael Janoschka (KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) (title to be confirmed)
Discussant: Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
Session 2
Ann-Kathrin Steiner (University of Tübingen). Playing the city. Making urban knowledge accessible through play (title to be confirmed)
Thomas Thiemeyer (University of Tübingen) Displaying the city: Narratives about AI in Tübingen
Discussant: Carlos Nazario Mora Duro (University of Tübingen)
16:00
Coffee Break
Session 3
Nikoloas Olma (University of the Aegean) Narrating Radiation: Tracing Urban Toxicity in a Former Uranium Mining Town in Kyrgyzstan
Claire Bullen (University of Tübingen) Building stories of conflict and conviviality. Mixing methods across the Mediterranean.
Discussant: Manuel Dieterich
17.30-18.00
Final Discussion
18:30-20:00
Vernissage, “ZONE 54 : Unrestricted Areas”, a documentary and collaborative photographic project, Amandine Turri Hoelken, with Emy, Gaëtan, Ingrid, Le fils, Mike (Deutsch-Französisches Kulturinstitut, Doblerstraße 25)
Opening words: Claire Bullen
19:00 “Dropouts. Narrating mobilities from the margins.”, A talk from anthropologist and photographer, Amandine Turri Holken (University of Strasbourg)
Refreshments provided by the German French Institute
20:15
Dinner
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