Contested City Book Tour
Fall/Winter 2019-2020
October 3, 2019, 6-8pm
NEW YORK, NY - Praxis Tank
A conversation with artists, activists and scholars, dedicated to elevating knowledge borne from freedom struggles; and the practices-pedagogies-experiments that advance collective transformation and movements for liberation.
The New School.
Event info :: Free and open to the public
October 8, 2019, 6-8pm
NEW YORK, NY - International Center of Photography
@ Abrons Art Center
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani : Contested City
Event info :: Free & open to the public. RSVP here
October 18, 2019, 2:30-4pm
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Imagining America
Contested City workshop
Event info :: Register here
October 24, 2019, 6-8pm
NEW YORK, NY - The Right to the City Series
Contested City
City College, Center for Worker Education
Event info :: Free & open to the public.
November 2, 2019, 10:15am-12pm
WASHINGTON, DC - Society for American City and Regional Planning History conference
Bottom-Up Urbanism, a panel of presentations and discussion with Noah W. Allison, June Williamson, and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani.
Event info :: Register here
January 2, 2020, 1:30pm-3pm
NEW YORK, NY - American Historical Association
Historically-Informed Present-Day Activism in the City, a panel of presentations and discussion with Katie Uva, Cynthia Tobar, Maeve Montalvo, Tarry Hum, and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani.
Event info :: Register here
Past events
February 12, 2019, 7-9pm
NEW YORK, NY - Contested City - book launch!
The New School. Free and open to the public.
RSVP here
February 28, 2019, 6:30pm
NEW YORK, NY - Salon talk at Hunter College, hosted by the New York Metro American Studies Association
Event info
March 13, 2019, 1-2:30pm
NEW YORK, NY - NYU Urban Democracy Lab
Event & RSVP info :: Free & open the public. Be one of the first 20 people to register & get a free copy of Contested City!
April 3, 2019, 6:30-8pm
NEW YORK, NY - Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY Contested City: Art, Planning & Community Power; a panel discussion with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Kemi Ilesanmi, Prithi Kanakamedala & Gregory Jost.
Event info :: Free & open to the public. RSVP here.
April 7, 2019, 3-5pm
NEWBURGH, NY - Fullerton Center, Dept of Small Interventions & Binnacle Books
Reframing Urban Renewal, a panel discussion with
Ben Schulman, David Hochfelder, Anne Pfau, and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani.
Event info :: Free & open to the public.
April 11, 2019, 6-8pm
CHICAGO, IL - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Contested City: from the Lower East Side of New York to the West Side of Chicago, a panel discussion with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Nicole Marroquin & Jose E. Lopez, moderated by Teresa Córdova.
Event info :: Free & open to the public. RSVP here.
April 13, 2019
NEW YORK, NY - A Blade of Grass :: Assembly
A Layered SPURA tour & conversation.
Event info
April 18, 2019, 12-2pm
DAVIS, CA - Imagining America Learning Lab
Contested City & Building Partnerships
Event info
April 18, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm
SACRAMENTO, CA - Imagining America
Contested City: A Community Conversation in Oak Park
April 22, 2019, 6:30-8:30pm
BERKELEY, CA - Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Event info :: Free & open to the public. RSVP here.
May 31, 2019, 6-8pm
NEW YORK, NY - Cuchifritos Gallery & Project Space, Artists Alliance, Essex Street Market
Opening of Keep Me Nearby, a Contested City exhibition
Exhibition open May 31-July 21, 2019
Event info :: Free & open to the public.
June 3, 2019
PORTSMOUTH, NH - University of New Hampshire Summer Institute in Public Humanities
Event info
June 8, June 29 & July 20, 2019
NEW YORK, NY - Cuchifritos Gallery & Project Space
Layered SPURA walking tours
Event info :: Free & open to the public.
If you’re interested in bringing Gabrielle & Contested City to your city, neighborhood, organization, or school, please be in touch!