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 15^th

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 16^th

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.

Day 3. Wednesday 17^th

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.