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Ismael Abder-rahman Gil is currently a Ph.D. student at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Philipps-Universität Marburg. His main research interest is literary geographies, sociology of literature, and urban sociology. His research is aiming to study the Image and Imaginary of Amman through Jordanian contemporary novels. Ismael holds a Bachelor?s degree in Arabic Philology by the University of Granada, a master?s degree in Cultural heritage management by the University of Valencia, and a master?s degree in teaching specialized in foreign languages by the University of Granada. Before starting his Ph.D. he worked in cultural institutions, Arabic and Spanish language teaching, and humanitarian organizations in Jordan, Spain, and Italy.

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Gentrification is one of the most controversial and visible urban phenomena of the post-1945 era. With the acceleration of urbanisation and globalisation, urban renewal has taken new forms and grown increasingly complex. The classical account of gentrification, coined by Ruth Glass in her studies of London (1964), was predicated on cities in the West, but today gentrification and displacement can equally be observed worldwide in metropolitan regions as well as in smaller cities, in new-build areas and countryside regions. This calls for new and interdisciplinary approaches to urban change. In this one-day symposium, we call for more systematic attention to artistic representations of urban change in literature and other media, and for investigation of how these relate to other accounts of the phenomenon, including sociological, economic and political ones. While organized by researchers in literary studies and geography, the symposium welcomes discussion of textual or narrative aspects of many sorts of text, including novels and films but also memoirs, journalism, architectural writing, ethnographies, and academic discourse. Here you can watch presentations of the participants of the workshop.