Programme

Imagining the Anti-Fascist City Conference Programme
Thursday, 5 June 2025

11.00-11.30
Opening of the Conference 
Kasper Braskén

11.30-13.00
Panel 1: Neighbourhood Organising and Local Protest

Anthony Ince and Ana Guerrero
Anti-fascism in All But Name? Housing Struggles, Neighbourhood Organising, and Civil Society

Ivan Bordetas
Dictatorship, City, and Neighbourhood Protest: The Case of Barcelona, 1969-1977

Arnab Dutta
Antifascist Cultural Mobilisation as Street Protests: Calcutta in the Stormy Decade

13.00-14.15
Lunch

14.15-15.45
Panel 2: Gender and the Drawing of the Queer Anti-fascist City

Mohor Chakraborty
The Legacy of Anti-Fascist Resistance and Urban Solidarity: (Re)-Imagining Contested Geographies and Memorialisation

Günter Gassner
Drawing the Queer Anti-fascist City

Moshumee Dewoo 
Cape Town as an Anti-Fascist City (1930s–1960s): Cissie Gool, District Six, and the Transnational Port Network of Resistance 

16.15-17.00
Keynote / URBARIA Lecture Series

David Featherstone
‘Glad to Make the Acquaintance of Another Antifascist’: Port Cities and the Makings of Anti-Fascist Solidarities

17.00-18.00
Roundtable
David Featherstone, Peter Cole, Minna Henriksson, Moshumee Dewoo, Shane Little

19.00
Conference Dinner

Friday, 6 June 2025

9:30-11.00
Panel 3: Urban Transformation and Anti-Fascist Spatial Claims

Anna Duensing
"In Yorkville where New York's Bierstuebens are": A Black Antifascist Analysis of a City's Fascist Past-and Present

Shane Little 
Chicago and Interracial Anti-Fascist Solidarities: Thyra J. Edwards and the Practical Anti-authoritarian Impulse

Daniel Frost
Anti-fascism in a London Suburb, 1956-1993

11.00-11.15
Coffee

11.15-12.45
Panel 4: Anti-Fascist Theatre and Culture in the Streets

Tanay Thakur
Halla Bol: ̌Street Theatre, Urban Margins, and the Political Praxis of JANAM

Anna Branach-Kallas
(Mnemonic) Solidarities and the Anti-Fascist City: Vancouver-La Ciudad

12.45-14.00
Lunch

14.00-15.30
Panel 5: Memory Sites and Anti-Fascist Memorialisation

Greg Piotrowski & Jan Bobrowski
Struggles for Commemorating of the Past: The Case of Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War in Post-Socialist Poland

Peter Cole
Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Chicago's Public Art Landscape

Vincenzo Colaprice
Anti-fascist Bari: Memory, Identity, and Urban Transformation

15:30-15:45
Break

15.45-17.15
Panel 6:  Self-Defense and Confrontations in the City

Angel Lugo
The Soundtrack of Resistance: Banda, Soneridos, and the Fight for the Anti-Fascist City

Stanislav Vysotsky
Antifascism, Self-Defense, and the Right to the City

Anton Piyaratne
Aragalaya: Officially Declared Agitation Site as a Space for Strategizing and Fighting Against State Fascism and Crowning People's Power in Sri Lanka

Closing Remarks by Kasper Braskén, Moshumee Dewoo and Shane Little