Future Narratives of Small Towns – German-French-Polish Meeting

Rencontres germano-franco-polonaises, dans le cadre des programmes PHC Procope et MSH Mirevilles

organisées par l’UMR Territoires – MSH – 4 rue Ledru – 63001 Clermont-Ferrand

Les sessions de communications sont ouvertes à tous et toutes. Les ateliers sont réservés aux membres des deux programmes.
Paper sessions are open to all. Workshops are reserved for members of both programmes.

Monday 20th November – MSH Ground floor – Room 28

10:30 – 12:00 Workshop 1

• Welcome and introduction
• Workshop: Comparison of small towns in France and Germany,
  

12:00 – 16:30 Session 1

• Nina Gribat (BTU Cottbus) – German state narratives and activities on small towns: Small town Academy and other initiatives
• Agniezska Kwiatek-Soltys & Krzysztof Wiedermann (Pedagogical University of Krakow) – Future narratives of small towns in Poland
• Hélène Mainet (UCA – UMR Territoires) – The changing positionings of small towns in France: discourse and images conveyed by municipal websites
• Agnès Klöden-Billemont and Emily Bereskin (BTU Cottbus) – Future narratives in Integrated Urban Development Concepts: re-define small town images
• Coralie Marboeuf (UCA – UMR Territoires) – Defining the territorial narrative (conceptual approach)

16:30-17:30 Workshop 2

• Future narratives: what are we talking about? (definitions of « narrative” and “future”)

Tuesday 21st November – IADT First floor – Room 104

9:30 – 12:00 Session 2

• Fabian Halfar (BTU Cottbus) – Developing narratives through participation. Young people in the guiding principles of Eisenhüttenstadt
• Rafik Mohammed Arfaoui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) – Arrival experiences beyond the metropolis: local solidarities with refugees and narratives in small towns
• Joséphine Lécuyer (Université d’Orléans) – Land of misery or natural paradise? Cross-narratives of a rural region in North-East Germany
• Tihomir Viderman (BTU Cottbus) – Summary of Final-HCKF-Symposium EU policies on just-transitions and structural change in Lausitz

12:00 – 19:00 Excursion : Billom et Thiers

Wednesday 22nd November – MSH Ground floor – Room 28

10:00 – 12:00 Workshop 3

14:00 – 16:30 Workshop 4

16:30 End of the meeting.