Conference venuesSajad Sepehri

Conference venues

Six places in The Hague and what happens in each

ExplanationAbout this demonstration

This event is part of a demonstration of what Lera offers for running knowledge events. Its content is written with care and draws on real sources, but the conference has not taken place, and apart from the convener its participants are fictional.

These places are real, and all of them are in The Hague. The part they play in this conference is part of the demonstration: none has been booked for it and none is its organiser.

The Hague Central Library

The Hague Central Library is on the Spui, inside the white City Hall complex designed by Richard Meier. A city's public library is a place where knowledge belongs to everyone and no degree or university membership is needed to enter; that is why it is the conference's main home.

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The Hague City Hall - Wikipedia
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The keynotes, sessions, roundtable, debate, opening and closing take place in Hall A (250 people) and Hall B (120 people), and the poster session in the Atrium (200 people). Address: Spui 68, 2511 BT Den Haag.

The Hague Humanity Hub

The Hague Humanity Hub is a place of work and meeting for organisations active in peace, justice and humanitarian action. The conference holds its two workshops there, because the question 'knowledge in which language' is a practical one for these organisations: the reports, testimonies and accounts they work with are rarely in one language.

The workshop 'Translating without betraying the concept' on day one and the workshop 'Building one piece of knowledge in many languages' on day two, in the workshop room (40 people). Address: Fluwelen Burgwal 58, 2511 CJ Den Haag.

The Grey Space in the Middle

The Grey Space in the Middle is an independent space for contemporary art beside the Paviljoensgracht canal. The conference exhibition finds its place in an art space rather than a university hall, because what has not been archived is often first seen in art.

The Paviljoensgracht, the canal beside which The Grey Space in the Middle stands.
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The opening of the exhibition 'Languages that were not archived' on the evening of day one. Address: Paviljoensgracht 20, 2512 BP Den Haag.

Grand Café Utopie

Grand Café Utopie is a large café west of the city centre. The conference's welcome evening, after the first day, is held there: a place for open conversation, outside the programme and without the hierarchy of speaker and audience.

The welcome evening, Wednesday 16 June from 19:30. Address: Waldeck Pyrmontkade 118, 2518 JR Den Haag.

Bookstor

Bookstor is a bookshop on Noordeinde, opposite Noordeinde Palace. The conference's book launch is held in a bookshop, because a book reaches its reader in a bookshop before it finds a place in a library or an index.

Noordeinde Palace; Bookstor is opposite it.
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The book launch and reading, Thursday 17 June from 17:30. Address: Noordeinde 39, 2514 GC Den Haag.

Pulchri Studio

Pulchri Studio is the home of an artists' society founded in 1847, in a historic house on Lange Voorhout. The conference dinner is held there, with a society that has brought the city's artists together for more than a century and a half.

Pulchri Studio on Lange Voorhout.
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The conference dinner, Thursday 17 June from 19:30. Address: Lange Voorhout 15, 2514 EA Den Haag.