International conference "Urban inequalities vs. Urban inclusion: migration, identity and public space"

June 19-21, International conference “Urban inequalities vs. Urban inclusion: migration, identity and public space”

On June 19-21, 2019, the Institute of Social Policy the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Centre for Urban Anthropology at KB Strelka, and Oxfam in Russia hosted a conference on “Urban inequalities vs. Urban inclusion: migration, identity and public space”.

The conference focused on ethnographic analysis to address various aspects of urban inequality, such as unemployment, informal employment, homelessness, access to essential services, intolerance, conflict, digital divide.

Keynote speakers:

Setha Low (City University of New York), public talk on the link

Dace Dzenovska (Oxford University, UK), public talk on the link

Conference committee:

Ekaterina Demintseva, Director, Centre for Qualitative Social Policy Research, Institute for Social Policy, Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Associate Professor, School of Cultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Mikhail Alekseevsky, Director, Centre for Urban Anthropology, Strelka KB, Moscow.

Tatiana Intigrinova, Policy Advisor, Oxfam in Russia

Information about conferece on the link