Event Background
Under the title “City (Un)Defeated. Streams of struggle” the 29th edition of the International Network for Urban Research and Action annual conference will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, from 30th June to 3rd July. INURA 19 will bring together members of its network – consisting of activists and researchers from community and environmental groups, universities, and local administrations, who wish to share experiences and to participate in common research.
Focusing on the topic of transformative cities as one of its thematic priorities, the Green European Foundation aims to support the emergence of trans-local networks and urban spaces as breeding ground for progressive policies, and will be present at the conference to this end.
About the event
Besides being present throughout the conference with an info stand, GEF will host, together with the support of the Institute for Political Ecology, a public panel in the evening of Monday, 1st July, to address one of the most pressing issues among urban activists all over Europe: the right to housing.
In the framework of the transnational project on Cities as Places of Hope in the European Union, challenges around urban housing as well as possible alternative pathways for the future will be addressed with experts and activists from all over Europe.
Speakers
Marko Aksentijević, Roof over one’s head, Belgrade
Philipp Klaus, Kraftwerk 1, Zurich
Petra Rodik, Faculty of humanities and Social sciences, Zagreb
Ulrike Hamman, Kotti&Co, Berlin
Iva Marčetić, Right to the city, Zagreb
Moderator: Tomislav Tomašević, Institute for Political Ecology, Zagreb
For updates on the programme and practicalities, watch this space or check the INURA 19 website.
Dr Colin Sage – Senior Lecturer in Geography at UCC with research interests in food systems, environmental policy and civic initiatives for social change. He is the author of Environment and Food (2012) and co-editor of Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability (2017), Food Transgressions: Making sense of contemporary food politics (2014) and Strategies for Sustainable Development. Colin is honorary Visiting Professor on the Food Studies program at the American University, Rome as well as at the University of Gastronomic Sciences near Turin, Italy, and has just completed a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Tasmania. He is strongly committed to public engagement and is Chair of the Cork Food Policy Council which he co-founded in 2013.
Dr Christina Grasseni – Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Her research interests lie broadly in economic, political and visual anthropology, focusing especially upon skilled visions and ecologies of belonging. She is the author of Beyond Alternative Food Networks (2013) which analysed Italy’s solidarity economy networks as ethnographic models of grassroots transition to sustainable consumption and food sovereignty. Her most recent book, The Heritage Arena (2017) unravels the political agency of heritage cheese in the reinvention of local economies and ecology in the Alps. Cristina currently leads a major European Research Council project, Food citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities which examines the premises and consequences of collective forms of food production, distribution and consumption in three European cities.
Dr. Oliver Moore – has a PhD in the sociology of farming and food and writes in the field of organics, direct selling and consumer-producer relations. He is a contributor to the Irish Examiner where he writes a weekly column on organic food and farming. A member of the Irish Food Writers Guild he also contributes to Food and Wine magazine, and to Organic Matters magazine. Dr. Moore is Communications Manager with ARC2020, an EU agri-food and rural NGO based in Paris and also maintains a lively and informative 
Regina Sexton – a food historian, food writer, broadcaster and cook. Her research interests include food and identity, food and tradition and food in the Irish country house. She has published widely at academic and popular levels. Her publications include A Little History of Irish Food (Gill and Macmillan, 1998) and Ireland’s Traditional Foods (Teagasc, 1997). At University College Cork, she lectures in the area of food history with the School of History, the Food Industry Training Unit and Adult Continuing Education. Her research interests encompass food and culinary history, food preservation, food and identity, ’traditional‘ food cultures, and constructed and ‘invented‘ food traditions. Regina is secretary of the Agricultural History Society of Ireland.
