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Narcotic City Public Lecture by Peter-Paul Bänziger
Tuesday, 09th of March 2021, 11.00 a.m. via ZOOM
PLEASE NOTE
The lecture will take place as a Zoom meeting. By registering, participants consent to the recording and possible publication on the KWI Youtube channel.
As in many other cities, the first "open drug scene" emerged in Zurich in the second half of the 1960s. People met at the so-called Riviera on the banks of the Limmat, smoked hashish brought back from Afghanistan and Morocco, philosophised and made music.
The lecture approaches this scene from different angles. It describes the practices of drug consumption, asks about the forms of drug supply and shows how repressive the so-called establishment was in its reaction. Had they responded in a more relaxed manner, Zurich would hardly have gained worldwide notoriety two decades later for its "Needle Park", the open drug scene on the Platzspitz peninsula near the central station.
Peter-Paul Bänziger, Dr. habil., is a senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Department of History, University of Basel, and a senior researcher in the HERA research project “Governing the Narcotic City. Imaginaries, Practices and Discourses of Public Drug Cultures in European Cities from 1970 until Today (GONACI)” at the Open Universiteit (NL).
SPEAKER
Peter-Paul Bänziger, University of Basel
MODERATOR
Gemma Blok, Open Universiteit, Heerlen
COORDINATOR
Stefan Höhne, KWI Research Fellow
PARTICIPATION
Participants can register for the lecture via e-mail to presse@kwi-nrw.de by Monday, 8th of March 2021. Participants will then receive the Zoom link.
ORGANISATION
Organised by the international HERA Research Project “Governing the Narcotic City. Imaginaries, Practices and Discourses of Public Drug Cultures in European Cities from 1970 until Today (GONACI)”
Stefan Höhne, KWI Research Fellow
https://kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/drug-consumption-zurich/ - Online Link
1980 Zurich Riviera
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