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International Conference on Cross Movement Mobilization
05 – 08 April 2017, Bochum
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Location: Institute for Social Movements
16:10 Entrance
16:40-17:30 Welcome Address
Sabrina Zajak (Institute for Social Movements/Ruhr-University Bochum), Geoffrey Pleyers (International Sociology Association
RC47), Simon Teune (Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung), Jens Becker (Hans Böckler Foundation)
17:30-19:30 Opening Discussion
Cross-Movement Mobilization as a Conceptual and Practical Challenge
Donatella della Porta, Centre of Social Movements Studies; Scuola Normale Superior Florence
Dieter Rucht, Protest and social Movement Research Institute; Berlin Social Science Center
Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley; Watson Institute for International Studies and Public Affairs, Brown University
19:30- 20:00 Reception
20:00- open end Drink and think: Poster Session
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Thursday, April 6, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC
08:30-10:00 Morning plenary
Theorizing cross movement alliances: social movement, labour and postcolonial studies in dialogue
Klaus Dörre, University of Jena, Germany
Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy
Janet M. Conway, Canada research Chair in Social Justice, Brock University, Canada
Chair: Geoffrey Pleyers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Panel Slot A
10:30-
12:00
Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 9.1. Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?
Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller Chair/Discussant: Margit Mayer
1. Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam): The urban vortex. Connections across cities and movements
2. Nina Fraeser (Hafen-City Uni Hamburg): Commoning as solidarity practice: the social-spatial
reproduction of urban social movements
3. David Scheller (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam): Beyond housing movements? Convergences of
urban social movements in Berlin and New York
Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 7.1: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism
Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich
1. Michael Brie (Institute for Social Analysis, Berlin): From the “Double Movement” to a Space of
Alternatives. Reframing Karl Polanyi
2. Sascha Münnich (University of Göttingen): The non-liberal origins of (neo) liberalism. Polanyi’s blind
spot?
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Room:
IC 03/610 Panel 2.1: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America: Inter-
movement Dynamics in Struggles Against Extractivism
Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira Discussant: Johanna Leinius
1. Sebastián Smart (UCL Institute of the Americas): Latin-American Social Movements against Extractivism
2. Johanna Leinius (Goethe University Frankfurt): Mobilizing Across Different Worlds: Creating Counter-
Hegemonic Alternatives from the Margins in Peru
3. Eva Kalny (University of Hannover): Transciendo movimientos: la lucha contra el neoliberalismo en el
Petén, Guatemala
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 8.1: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics
of Labour
Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak Discussant: Britta Rehder
1. Giulia Gortanutti, Johanna Lauber, Ana-Maria Nikolas & Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum):
Talking about the same but different? Alliances and cooperation in social movement and industrial
relations theory
2. Stefan R. Siebel (RMIT University, Australia): Union coop networks. Transnational workplace
democracies as a catalyst for strategic alliances between new social movements and traditional labour
politics
3. Cassandra Engeman (Uppsala University): Unpacking Union Power Resources: How Organized Labor
Contributes to Cross-movement Campaigns for U.S. Paid Sick Leave
4. Melanie Kryst (Philipps University Marburg): How to target banana companies: Complementary strategies
of labour unions and NGOs in the agricultural sector
Room:
HIC
(Auditorium)
Panel 6: Alliances as Co-Optation. Social Movements between Professionalization and Depolitisation
Organizers: Shelley Feldman, Eva Gerharz
1. Antje Daniel (Bayreuth University): Organizing change – changing organization: The women’s movement
in Kenya and the influence of the development nexus
2. Fabrício Mello (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro): Co-optation or Asymmetry? Development and
Contention in the Transnational Alliance of a South African Social Movement
3. Cleve Kevin Robert V. Arguelles (Central European University, Budapest) Neoliberal absorption or
deliberative capacity building? Assessing social movement participation in participatory interventions
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4. Sabrina Zajak & Sigrid Quack (Ruhr-University Bochum & University Duisburg Essen): (Un-)holy
Alliances between social movements and business cooperation as economization
Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 17.1: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since 1968.
Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke Comment: Stefan Berger
1. Marica Tolomelli (University of Bologna): Encounters. Capital, labor and culture in 1968
2. David Templin (The Hamburg Research Centre for Contemporary History): The hidden presence of
working class youth protests in the West German Jugendzentrumsbewegung of the 1970s
3. Christian Wicke (Utrecht University): Workers initiatives and urban movements in the Ruhr and Sydney
12:00-13:00 Lunchbreak
Panel Slot B
13:00-
14:30
Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 3: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Large-Scale Mining
Organizers: Bettina Engels, Melanie Müller
1. Kristina Dietz (Free University Berlin): Protest and democracy: citizens' initiatives against mining
projects in Latin America
2. Sorina Cristina Soare (University of Florence): Environmental mobilization after accession: the case
of Rosia Montana
3. Bettina Engels (Free University Berlin): First food, then morals? Claims, actors, and resources in
protest against gold mining in Burkina Faso
4. Melanie Müller (Foundation for Science and Politics Berlin): Coal kills - kill coal. Conflicts over
coal mining in South Africa.
Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 7.2: The Next Polanyian Movement? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism.
Organizers: Saskia Freye, Sascha Münnich
1. Heide Haas & Katharina Leganke (University of Göttingen): “Protesting Finance. Counter-
movements from a comparative perspective”
2. Hugo Dias (University of Coimbra): „Labour, solidarity and the self-protection of society”
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3. Martin Seeliger (University of Jena): Ambivalences in the Countermovement – Does re-embedding
take place as a general move towards more equity?
Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 2.2: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America:
The Relations Between Labor and Other Movements
Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira
1. Juliana Ramos Luiz & Marco Antonio Teixeira (Rio de Janeiro State University): Cross-
movement mobilizations in Latin America: lessons from the MERCOSUR Confederation of the Family
Farmer Producer
2. María Maneiro (University of Buenos Aires-CONICET): Itinerarios diferenciales y articulaciones en
la movilización organizaciones de trabajadores desocupados (2009-2012)
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 13.1: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity
Mobilization,
Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis
1. Oscar Garcia Agustin (Aalborg University, Denmark) Anti-austerity movements interconnected:
discourse, dialogism and translation
2. Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London): A strange alliance: precarious movements, poor people
movements and declining middle class protest in anti-austerity struggles.
3. Angelos Loukakis (University of Crete): Anti-austerity protests and new forms of solidarity: one
movement?
Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 9.2: Cross-Movement Convergences: The Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?
Organizers: Margit Mayer, David Scheller
1. Esin Ileri (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris): Social Movements in Istanbul
2. Inés Morales Bernardos (ISEC, University of Córdoba) & Mamen Cuéllar Padilla (ISEC, University of
Córdoba): Athens, cross-movement convergences to reconstruct urban food autonomy in times of
crisis
3. Sebastián Ibarra González (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research): Urban Struggles in
Santiago de Chile. Between local-territorial embeddedness and fragmentation of claims
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14:30 – 15:00 Break
Panel Slot C (Long)
15:00-
17:00
Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 17.2: New Social Movements and the Labour Movement: Cross-Movement Mobilization since
1968.
Organizers: Ulf Teichmann, Christian Wicke Comment: Stefan Berger
1. Charles Roemer (Free University of Brussels): The boycott dilemma: Anti-apartheid actions and
Western European trade unions in the 1970s and 80s
2. Ulf Teichmann (Institute for social movements, Bochum): Protests for ‚work and peace‘. Trade unions,
the peace movement and peace initiatives on a plant level in West-Germany in the 1980s
Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 19: Actors or Tactics? Dynamics of Broad Coalitions and Repertoires of Contention for Political
Transformation.
Organizers: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop, Jan Philipp Vatthauer
1. Jannis Grimm (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies / Free University Berlin):
Contentious Dynamics and Evolving Repertoires in Post-Coup Egypt
2. Jan-Erik Refle (University of Lausanne): Combining networks and framing - How a Tunisian civil
society coalition frames pro democratic claims
3. Andrea Noll & Jan Budniok (University of Hamburg): Cross-movement mobilization, cooperation and
segmentation among social movements in Ghana
Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 2.3: Engaging Difference - Lessons from Cross Movement Mobilizations in Latin America:
Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogic Approaches to Inter-Movement Encounters
Organizers: Eva Kalny, Johanna Leinius, Marco Antonio Teixeira Discussants: Eva Kalny and Johanna
Leinius
1. Janet Conway & Anabel Paulos (Brock University): Popular feminism, cross-movement mobilization
and the decolonial challenge
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2. Mar Daza (Program of Democracy and Global Transformation, Peru): Los nuevos saberes feministas
desde nuestros cuerpos-territorios-vida
3. Ivette Hernández (UCL Institute of Education): Territorial assemblies and cross-movement
mobilisation in the 2011 Chilean student movement
4. Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes (IESP- UERJ, Rio de Janeiro) Culture against narcoviolence: Lessons
from popular mobilizations in Brazil and México
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 13.3: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity
Mobilization, Workshop
Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis
Robert MacDonald, Maite Aurrekoetxea Casaus & Martin Zuñiga de Loizaga & Jone Goirigolzarri Garaizar ,
Arturo Rodríguez Sáez & Silvia Semenzin, Pedro Ibarra & Ariel Sribman, Bernd Bonfert
Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 14: Mediated Collaborations
Organizers: Simon Teune, Armin Scholl
1. Amoshaun Toft (University of Washington): From civil rights to the occupy movement: Talking across
issues in activist media
2. Asli Polatdemir (University of Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and
Websites
3. Niamatullah Ibrahimi (Australian National University): Rumours and Gossips and Contentious Politics
in Afghanistan, 2001-2016
4. Armin Scholl & Julia Völker (University of Münster): Activistsʼ Use of Twitter in the Conflict at the
Oranienplatz (Berlin)
17:00-17:30 Break
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17:30- 19:00 Evening session: Bridging the activist-academic divide
Discussants:
Cristina Flesher Fominaya University of Aberdeen, UK
Geoffrey Pleyers Université de Louvain, Belgium
Alissa Starodub Activist and Ruhr-University Bochum
Janis Klusman Activist, trade union for education and science, Germany
Session moderation:
Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum)
19:30 Dinner on campus
Friday, April 7, 2017 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum / HIC
Room: IC 03/604 (08:00 - 10:00)
Meeting of the Group Gender Movements at the IS
Panel Slot D
10:00-
11:30
Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 18.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive
Social Movements.
Organizers: Ilse Lenz
1. Ilse Lenz (Emeritus Prof. Ruhr-University Bochum): Challenges for research on crossmobilisation of
gender movements
2. Beatrice Halsaa (University of Oslo): National and transnational mobilization of indigenous women in
Norway and Sápm
3. Friederike Apelt (Leibniz University Hanover): Mobilization of Women in the West German Solidarity
Movement with Nicaragua
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Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 5.1: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other
Movements' Mobilizations? Session 1: Theoretical Perspectives
Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten
1. Kevin Gillan (University of Manchester): What's Wrong with Waves or Sequences? Understanding
Temporality in Social Movement Research
2. Lisa Villioth (University of Siegen): Protest Professionals? Is it the protest that spreads or is it the
protestor that travels?
3. Jochen Roose (University of Wroclaw): Mobilization by Example
Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 10.1: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP.
Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje van Loon
1. Patricia Goff (Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs): Cross-Movement
Mobilization in Canada and the United States: The Dog that Didn’t Bark?
2. Tereza Novotna (Free University Brussels): From Cross-Movement Mobilisation to Public Discourse:
TTIP and its Potential Failure across the Atlantic
3. Paolo Roberto Graziano (University of Padova): Europeanization and Social Movements: The Case of
the Stop-TTIP campaign
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 11.1: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement,
Session 1
Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke
1. Katrin Hedemann & Mundo Yang (University of Siegen): Camps, Farms, Movements – The Politics of
Social-Ecological Infrastructures
2. Francesca Colli (University of Leuven): Green consumption groups: mobilization between individuals
and institutions
3. Jana Bosse (Free University Berlin): Projects Instead of Protest – The Example of a Transition Town
Initiative
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Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 4: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Migration and Asylum.
Organizers: Priska Daphi, Leslie Gauditz, Lorenzo Zamponi
1. Elias Steinhilper (Scuola Normale Superiore): Mobilizing within precarious networks of solidarity: The
case of self-organized refugee-activism in Berlin, Germany
2. Jiří Navrátil (Masaryk University, Czech Republic): Fear and Loathing in the Czech Republic: Political
Elites - Civil Society Interaction in the Public Discourse on the Refugee Crisis
3. Nicole Dörr (University of Copenhagen): LGBT and Gender Coalition Work as a Critical Political
Translation Practice: the Danish and German Refugee Solidarity Movements in Comparison
4. Chiara Milan (Scuola Normale Superiore): Solidarity with migrants across the so-called “Western
Balkan route"
11:30 -12:00 Break
Panel Slot E
12:00-13:30 Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 18.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive
Social Movements.
Organizers: Ilse Lenz
First session (1): LGBTI and intimate/local citizenship
1. Francesca Romana Ammaturo (University of Roehampton, London): The Italian Debate on
“Gestational Surrogacy” and the Tensions inside the Italian LGBT Movement
Second Session (2): Sex Work and crossmovements contentions
1. Trine Rogg Korsvik (University of Oslo): "The Great Nordic War over Sexual Morality": Feminist
and other social movements’ mobilization against prostitution
2. Joana Hofstetter (University of Freiburg): The Contemporary Sex Worker Movement in Europe in the
Context of Neo-Abolitionism and Repressive Policies
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Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 5.2: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other
Movements' Mobilizations? Session 2: Case Studies
Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten
1. Baran Alp Uncu (Marmara University, Istanbul): Impact of ‘eventful protests’ on cross-movement
alliances: Solidarity across movements after the Gezi protests
2. Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): “We are the University!” Connecting Protest on Europe’s
Campuses
3. Jed Alegado (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Competing, cosmetic, and/or covert? Multiple food
sovereignties and the politics of translation and positioning
4. Jana Günther (Dresden Technical University): “Fragile Solidarity” – Relations between issues of gender
and class as a factor of mobilization in early feminist movements
Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 10.2: Cross-Movement Mobilization against TTIP.
Organizers: Giulia Gortanutti, Jan Orbie, Aukje von Loon
1. Kees Hudig (Independent researcher): From MAI to TTIP: Globalization, protest-movements, and the
brave new world of NGO’s
2. Aukje van Loon (Ruhr-University Bochum): Diverging German and British Governmental Trade
Policy Preferences in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Negotiations
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 11.2: Moving Boundaries - Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement.
Organizers: Jana Bosse, Romina Ranke
1. Bleta Arifi & Georg Winkel (University of Freiburg): The contestation of wind energy in Germany and
the production of a conservationist ‘people’s movement’: Analysing local conflicts about wind energy
use
2. Anna Wiemann (The German Institute for Japanese Studies): Network-Building in Movement Waves:
The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement since Fukushima
3. Romina Ranke (Leibniz University of Hannover): Challenging established structures in global activism.
The case of transnational climate networks
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Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 13.2: Joint Actions against Austerity Politics: Discourse and Strategies in the Anti-Austerity
Mobilization,
Organizers: Rubén Díez Garcia, Ana-Maria Nikolas, Maria Kousis
1. Martín Portos G. & Tiago Carvalho (Cosmos, Scuola Normale Superiore & University of Cambridge):
Keeping dissent alive: No-radicalisation and protest in Spain after the eventful 15M/indignados
campaign
2. Carolina Alves Vestena (University of Kassel): Anti-Austerity protests in Portugal and France: between
opportunities and strategies
3. Andrea Felicetti (European University Institute): Handling cross-movement mobilization: ‘convergence
des luttes’ and deliberation in the nuit debout movement.
4. Ana-Maria Nikolas (Ruhr-University Bochum): Networks in the anti-austerity protests. Measuring anti-
austerity cooperation through events.
13:30-14:30 Lunchbreak
Panel Slot F
14:30-
16:00
Room:
IC 03/604
Panel 18.3: Cross-Movement Mobilization of Women's Movements/Gender Movements and Progressive
Social Movements.
Organizer: Ilse Lenz
1. Asli Polatdemir (University of Bremen): Vitrines of Women's Movements in Turkey: Empowerment and
Websites
2. Corinna Trogisch (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation): Socialist feminism in Turkey between mass
organisation and small networks
3. Barbara Stefan (University of Vienna): Masculinity as precondition of “the political”
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Room:
IC 03/606
Panel 5.3: Protest Waves or Cross-Movement Mobilizations? How do Movements Influence Other
Movements' Mobilizations? Session 3: Country Comparisons
Organizers: Sebastian Haunss, Jochen Roose, Britta Baumgarten
1. Jan Jämte, Måns Lundstedt & Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörns University, Stockholm): Radical Left-
Libertarian Protests. Transnational diffusion between three Northern European countries
2. Rubén Díez Garcia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): The Historical and Cultural Roots of the
Current Wave of Indignation
3. Magdalena Tendera (Jagiellonian-University): Student Protest and the Left. The Cross-movement
Mobilization in the Balkans
4. Kei Takata (University of Duisburg-Essen): Connecting with the First or the Third World? Two Paths
Toward the Cross-National Movement Mobilization in the Japanese Global Sixties
Room:
IC 03/649
Panel 16: Changes in Protest Repertoires Reconsidered: Effects of Cross-Movement Mobilization.
Organizers: Felix Anderl, Priska Daphi, Nicole Deitelhoff
1. Deniz Günce Demirhisar (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, CADIS): Living
Together In A Protest Camp: Repertoire Of Gezi Park Occupation
2. Christian Scholl (University of Maastricht): The Political Grammar Of Summit Protest As
Transnational Repertoire Of Action
3. Grzegorz Piotrowski (European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk): Beyond Internal Division Of Labor:
Alliances With Radical Social Movements
Room:
IC 03/647
Panel 12: The Global Justice Movement Today: What Lessons Learned?
Organizers: Johanna Lauber, Geoffrey Pleyers
1. Geoffrey Pleyers (Catholic University of Louvain): "From the World Social Forum to Trump. What
have we failed? A critical balance of the alter-globalization movement and social movement studies"
2. Benjamin Bunk (University of Erfurt): “The World Social Forum as space for (self-)formation
processes. Or: Individuals as structure of cross-movement mobilization?”
3. Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen): “The role of the Global Justice Movement in
setting the basis for the 15-M movement in Spain”
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Room:
IC 03/610
Panel 8.2: Transnational Cross-Movement Alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of
Labour, Session 2
Organizers: Marissa Brookes, Sabrina Zajak
1. Zach McKenny (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): The State of the Union? Commodity Chains and
Labor Organizing Outcomes at Volkswagen Group of North America2.
2. Stefan Rother (University of Freiburg): Transnational organizing for migrant workers:Social
movement unionism and grassroots unions in Southeast Asia
3. Manfred Wannöffel (Ruhr-University Bochum): Networking and a two-track strategy : perspectives of
international trade union activities in India
4. Jan Niggemeier (Free University Berlin): Going Global, but How? Diversity in Transnationalisation
Processes of Labour Activism in Japan
16:00-16:30
IC 03/610
Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (IPB) meeting of working groups and those who would like to join
https://protestinstitut.eu/
16:30-16:45 Break/Transfer to the ISB
16:45-17:30
ISB Meet the Editor
With following journals: social movement studies, moving the social, Interface
17:30-19:00
ISB
Evening session
Cross-movement mobilization: a cure to desolidarisation and rising populism?
Discussants:
Shelley Feldman, Cornell University, USA
Daniele Di Nunzio Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy
Hugo Braun, Attac, Germany
Margit Mayer, FU-Berlin, Germany
Moderator: Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum)
19:30 Dinner in Town
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Saturday, April 8, 2017
Morning
10:00 Industrial heritage in the Ruhr-region. Visit of the biggest mining museum in
Germany (including visiting a mine underground)
http://www.bergbaumuseum.de/en/visitor-information