Final Conference
Barcelona, 15th-17th May 2023
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Comunicació
c/ Roc Boronat 138. 08018 Barcelona (Auditori)
Presentation
This international conference will be focused on the relationship between gangs and youth street groups (especially of transnational kind) and mediation (especially how to manage and solve conflicts inside and outside the groups). It is the Final Conference of the TRANSGANG Project, a comparative research project on youth street groups in Europe, Africa and the Americas, funded by the European Research Council and developed in the last five years at the University Pompeu Fabra. For dissemination purposes, we count with the collaboration of another National Research project on gangs (LEBAN), and with the EUROGANG program of Research. The conference will take place at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In the mornings the main results of TRANSGANG, in discussion with the researchers, members of the advisory boards and stakeholders, will be presented. The event will be completed in the evenings with the presentation of documentary films produced by TRANSGANG.
PROGRAM
Day 1. Monday 15th
09:00. Welcome
Laia de Nadal (UPF Rector), Carles Campuzano (Conseller de Drets Socials, Generalitat de Catalunya), Jordi Balló (Director Dep. of Communication), Carles Pont (Dean Faculty of Communication), Rut Ribas (General Director of Youth, Generalitat de Catalunya), Kristian Herbolzheimer (Director International Catalan Institute of Peace), Pilar Pascual (Youth Department, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Carles Feixa (PI TRANSGANG)
PART I. TRANSGANG OUTCOMES
09:30. S1. TRANSGANG Transnational Outcomes. Transnational Gangs as Agents of Mediation
Chair: María Oliver. Key Note: Carles Feixa
Participants: Abel Beremenyi, José Sánchez-García, Carles Feixa
11:00. Coffee Break
11:30. S2. TRANSGANG Transversal Outcomes. Media Representations, Social Media and Big Data
Chair: Mònica Figueras. Discussant: Carlos Scolari
Participants: Ariadna Fernández-Planells, Maria José Massanet, Xavier Moraño, Xavier Guiteras
13:00. Lunch
14:00. S3. TRANSGANG Local Outcomes. Researching Youth Street Groups in Southern Europe, Northern Africa and the Americas
Chair: José Sánchez-García
Participants: Eduard Ballesté, Maria Oliver, Juan C. Mansilla, Paolo Grassi, Rachid Touhtou, Kamel Boucherf, Sihem Najjar, Fulvia Márquez, Candy Chévez, Ligia Lavielle, William Ross
16:30. Coffee break
PART II. DOCUMENTARY FILMS I
17:00. S4. TRANSGANG Documentary Films I. Representing Youth Street Groups in Documentary Films
Chair: Margot Mecca. Discussant: Jordi Balló
Monte tropic: una historia del confinamiento [Mount Tropic: a story of lockdown]. Andrés Duque.
Camino hacia la inmigración [A Road to Immigration]. Ayoub El Marnissi.
Discussion with filmmakers and protagonists
19:00. Visit to GANGLAND/BANDOLANDIA Exhibition
20.00. Closure of the day
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Day 2. Tuesday 16th
PART III. TRANSGANG-LEBAN OUTCOMES II
09:00. S5. TRANSGANG Gender Perspective. Boys, Girls and Gangs
Chair: Nele Hansen. Discussant: Carmen Leccardi
Participants: María Oliver, Paolo Grassi, Hamida Trabelsi, Moustapha Omrane, Ligia Lavielle, William Ross, Dena Carson, Chris Melde, Abeer Musleh
10:30. Coffee Break
11:00. S6. LEBAN Outcomes. Is it possible to Legalize Gangs?
Chair: Eduard Ballesté. Key Note: Sonia Páez de Torre & Begoña Aramayona
Participants: Héctor Grad, Anna Sanmartín, Sabina Puig, Javier Navarro, Roger Soler, René Unda, Mercedes Botija
13:00. Lunch
14:30. S7. TRANSGANG Ethics. Ethical Dilemmas Researching Youth Street Groups
Chair: José Sánchez-García. Key Note: Gemma Aubarell. Discussant: Carlos Giménez
Participants: Germán Muñoz, Francisco Ferrándiz, Moussa Bourekba
16:00. Coffee break
PART IV. DOCUMENTARY FILMS II
16:30. S8. TRANSGANG Documentary Films II. Representing Youth Street Groups in Documentary Films
Chair: Margot Mecca. Discussant: Xavier Pérez Toribio
Al-Houma Dreams [Neighborhood Dreams]. Boris Svartzman
Instrucciones para cuando yo no esté [Instructions for when I'm gone]. Yira Plaza, Germán Arrango
Discussion with filmmakers and protagonists.
18:30. S9. Round Table with young participants. Young People in Youth Street Groups: Life Stories
Chair: María Oliver
Participants: Young people from the three TRANSGANG Regions
19:30. Hip-Hop FreeStyle Battle:
El Nuevo Rey / The New King (Barcelona)
C15 (Medellín)
Moroccan rapper
20:30. Closure of the day.
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Day 3. Wednesday 17th
PART V. WHITE BOOK ON GANG POLICIES
09:00. S10. TRANSGANG White Book. Gangs and Mediation
Chair: Jose Sánchez-García. Key Note: Adam Brisley.
Discussants: David Brotherton, Dennis Rodgers, Maritza Urteaga, Lilia Uthman, Juan J. Medina, Cherryl Maxson, Finn Esbensen, Miriam Dyberg-Tengroth
11:00. Coffee break
11:30. S11. Round Table with Stakeholders. Gangs and Public Policies
Discussants: Esther Giménez-Salinas (Síndica de Greuges de Catalunya), David Bondia (Síndic de Greuges de Barcelona), Lluís Paradell (Mossos d’Esquadra), Rosa Balaguer (Casal d’Infants del Raval), Vladimir Paspuel (Asociación Rumiñahui), Javier Bonomi (Fedelatina), Jeison Castaño (Casa Kolacho, Medellín), Glòria Carrera (Oficina de l’Alt Comissionat de Nacions Unides pels Drets Humans - OACDH), Elena Butti (War Child)
13:30. Closure of the International Conference
14:00. Lunch
15.30. Internal Meeting for TRANSGANG and LEBAN Researchers and Collaborators
17.30. Departure to Monastery of Les Avellanes (EUROGANG Workshop)
CREDITS
Venue:
University Pompeu Fabra. C/ Roc Boronat, 138. 08028 Barcelona. https://www.upf.edu/home.
Organization
University Pompeu Fabra, Department of Communication. https://www.upf.edu/web/comunicacio/inici.
Projects
TRANSGANG Project: Transnational Gangs as Agents of Mediation: Experiences of conflict resolution in youth street organizations in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Americas. European Union: HORIZON-2020, European Research Council - Advanced Grant [H2020-ERC-AdG-742705]. 2018-23. https://www.upf.edu/web/transgang.
LEBAN Project: Legalize gangs? The constitution of associations from youth street groups in Spain, Ecuador and El Salvador (2000-2025). Plan Nacional I+D+i. [PID2019-110893RB-I00]. 2020-2023. https://www.upf.edu/web/leban.
Collaboration
Direcció General de Joventut, Conselleria de Drets Social, Generalitat de Catalunya.
ICIP. International Catalan Institute for Peace. https://www.icip.cat/en/
EUROGANG Research Network. https://eurogangproject.com.