In Weaver\u2019s Long Table,<\/em> the table is a centrepiece of a performed conversation, in which you can choose whether or not to participate.\u00a0It\u2019s an amazingly simple yet effective performance work. It makes you re-think your critical relationship with tables. It makes you ask: Who sits at my<\/em> table? Who can <\/em>sit at my table? Who listens<\/em>? Who speaks<\/em>?<\/p>\n re-gathering, at the\u00a0un-tabled margin of our conversation, re-anchoring us to the imagined\u00a0city<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On 19th<\/sup>-21st<\/sup> of November, I co-hosted a three-day event at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t in Berlin. The event was run through the reading\u00a0group\u00a0City-Centric<\/a>, which I co-convene with Julia Braga-Neves. Challenging the ways in which\u00a0urban\u00a0geographies are gendered, and the ways in which these gendering structures are upheld through\u00a0metaphors, concepts, maps, poems, films and social relations, we spent three days convening around the theme of\u00a0Sexing and Gendering Urban Spaces<\/strong>. We called this event a \u2018workshop\u2019 because we wanted to move away from the conference table arrangement, of speakers and listeners. We wanted something more discursive \u2013 closer to a seminar, perhaps, where we might open ideas and materials to creative\u00a0readings.<\/p>\n In actual fact, we began this \u2018workshop\u2019 with a walking tour, doing away with the table altogether.<\/p>\n The tour took in the area of Mitte. Iris Wachsmuth led a group of 30 MA students, from the Literature programme at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t, and a handful of PhD students from King\u2019s and Humboldt. She was their anchor into Mitte \u2013 indexing its architecture and streets from a gender and postcolonial perspective. Much\u00a0like how a table organises a conversation.<\/p>\n![\"IMG_3445\"](\"http:\/\/blogtest.kcl.ac.uk\/englishtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/11\/IMG_3445-300x224.jpg\")
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