9:00 am: Presentation by th scientific coordinators Cilia Martin (CETOBAC / IFEA) and Mina Saidi (IFRI)

9:45 am- 1st panel : Manufactured space: investigating the implementation of the neighborhood

Moderator: Jean-Yves Authier (sociologist, Lumière Lyon2 University)

Charlotte Deweerdt (IREMAM, Aix en Provence)

The city-core, a neighborhood like any other? The "re-creation" of a market space and the development of insurance in Alexandria (1880-1905)

Noémi Lévy-Aksu (Boğaziçi University)

The neighborhood, an issue and a resource for maintaining order in Istanbul at the beginning of the 20^thcentury

Cilia Martin – (CETOBAC/IFEA)

From St Dimitri to Tatavla and Kurtuluş. The words of the neighborhood

11:15 am - 2nd panel : Shared Space: situations of mobility and management of otherness

Moderator: Murat Güvenç (Director of the Centre for Urban Research – Şehir University - Istanbul)

Fabio Salomoni (Koç Institute)

City, international migration and urban transformation: Istanbul and the district Kumkapı

Assaf Dahdah – (MMSH - TELEMME)

The city mirrors its margins. Non-Arab migrants in Armenian and Palestinian neighborhoods of Beirut

Iris Polizou – (National Technical University of Athens and Poitiers University)

Socio-spatial mutations in the center of Athens. The case of Chinese migrants in Metaxourgio

2:00 pm - 3rd panel : Represented space: people who make the neighborhood

Moderator: Işık Tamdoğan (Researcher at CNRS – IFEA Ottoman Historian)

Elise Massicard – (Researcher at CNRS)

The muhtarlık or the contrasted institutionnalization of the urban neighborhood in Turkey

Aziliz Pierre - (EHESS-IFEA)

Can local groceries embody the neighborhood notion? The case of Istanbul bakkal

Sahar Aurore Saeidnia – (EHESS –IRIS)

The neighborhood councils in Tehran, a participatory institution?

Azam Khatam (York University - Canada, Expert at Tehran Town Hall)

Modernist approach to the city and neighborhood self-governance in Tehran

4:00 pm - 4th panel : Marginalized space: suburbs and lack of neighborhood

Moderator: France Guérin (INED – « Identities and peoples’ territories »)

Yoann Morvan (IFEA)

Of which neighborhood is Viaport the shopping center? Some considerations on the dis-location of the neighborhood in the era of neoliberalism and generalized urbanism

Aysegül Cankat – (National School of Architecture of Grenoble)

Gecekondu neighborhoods: embedded spaces, interlaced uses

Mohsen Habibi - (Tehran University)

Self-built new neighborhoods and new towns in Tehran

Roman Stadnicki (Director of the City pole and Sustainable Development – CEDEJ – Cairo)

Re-appropriation of the neighborhood and repositioning of urban players in post 2011 Egypt

6:00 pm - Discussion

Friday 3 May

9:00 am - 5th panel : Reconstructed space: challenges of urban rehabilitation and place of memories

Moderator: Isabelle Backouche (city historian / CRH / EHESS)

Brian Chauvel – (EHESS)

Competing memories in the neighborhoods of Fener and Balat in Istanbul

Leila Karimifard (Azad University - Tehran, Department of Architecture) and Mina Saïdi (IFRI and National School of Architecture - La Villette)

Invisible assets in the old neighborhoods of Tehran

Timur W Hammond (UCLA – Department of Geography)
Claiming and Placing the Past: Eyüp and Eyüpsultan

Mina Saïdi (IFRI/ENSA-Paris la Villette/Mosaïques)
The notion of « l’habiter » in the old and central neighborhoods in Teheran

Discussion

11:00 am - Conclusion of the workshop presented by moderators

2:00 pm - Visit of a neighborhood’s project