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Liverpool
Rails and urban development. A Comparative Approach between France and the United Kingdom
In many countries, the challenges of sustainable urban development along with preoccupations about energy costs, are leading developers and urban planners to place rail transport at the centre of their concerns. During 2012 members of the French and British Planning Studies Group based at the University of Liverpool and University of Paris 1-Sorbonne have been collaborating on hosting two seminars dedicated to the theme of rail transport and urban development. The intention has been to bring together academics with practitioners and also incorporate visits to view rail investments ‘on the ground’. The first event took place in Paris in May 2012 and addressed light rail development in Europe with a particular focus on the situation in the UK and France. The second seminar will take place in Liverpool on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November 2012 and consider heavy rail as a means of serving urban development in metropolitan areas. -
Brno
The Face of the Dead and the Early Christian World
The theme chosen for this meeting is the study of funerary images in the transition between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The central question will a reflection on the function of the funerary images in a broad sense, but also their impact on the early christian world. The choice of the chronological time also shows the second intention of the colloquium: this is an attempt to explain why the ancient funerary tradition of the image will eventually disappear, replaced by other figures of the representative functions. Through various media - from the mosaic and painting, through sculpture and ending with gilded glasses - there will be presented one of the nodal representation of the self: the human face on the border between life and death. -
Catania
Call for papers - Urban studies
Visible and invisible: perceiving the city between descriptions and omissions
VI AISU Congress – Macro-Session II - Numbers
The conference will focus on the many ways in which the city has been described, narrated, portrayed and quantified in words, numbers and images over the centuries. Description and representation techniques from ancient and medieval times onwards provide an opportunity to initiate a comparison between different cities and contexts, seeking different ways of perceiving the urban whole in its full complexity. -
Call for papers - Urban studies
Urban Nature through Projects. Towards a new coalition between city and nature
Intitulé « Nature urbaine en projets », le présent colloque a pour ambition de mieux comprendre et connaître ce qu’il en est du devenir de la ville –sa nature- dès lors qu’elle s’attache à la nature. Car s'il faut bien envisager l’avenir des formes urbaines naturelles –promenades plantées, parcs, jardins- héritées de l’histoire, c’est à l’aune d’une demande sociale de nature, elle-même fluctuante, que cela doit être fait. Et s’il faut dès lors appréhender le devenir des modèles de nature auxquels se réfèrent les architectes, les paysagistes et les urbanistes qui aménagent nos villes en espaces naturels, il convient tout autant d’interroger les mutations du « projet » en tant qu’outil de conception auquel ces professionnels ont recours. Il n’est pas jusque la question de l’ « innovation » architecturale, paysagère et urbanistique qui n’implique la notion de dépassement du présent inhérente aux projets de nature urbaine. Une nouvelle alliance entre nature et ville se dessinerait-elle ? -
Paris
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
9th annual symposium of the International Medieval Society (IMS-Paris)
SymposiumHuman/Animal - Humain/AnimalSociété internationale des médiévistes (IMS-Paris)Paris, 28-30 juin 2012Centre Malher, 9 rue Malher, 75004 ParisConférenciers d'honneur : Christian Heck, Susan Crane, Peggy McCrackenTable ronde : Nathalie Le LuelInscription obligatoire : www.ims-paris.org -
Athens
Miscellaneous information - Urban studies
Econeighborhoods - Green neighborhoods: where are we in Greece?
La vitesse de la conception et la mise en place des écoquartiers est aujourd’hui sans précédant ! Le développement durable trouve enfin son application opérationnelle idéale sur l’espace. Les thématiques et les options sont variées et extrêmement intéressantes : modes de déplacement alternatifs, circulation bien limitée des voitures privées, bâtiments basse consommation, ou bâtiments à énergie zéro ou positive, utilisation des eaux pluviales, matériaux écologiques, mixité sociale et urbaine, combinaison avec le logement social, promotion de modes de vie durables en général... Les écoquartiers sont partout de projets urbains exemplaires, promus par leurs communautés en tant que « vitrines» de savoir-faire technique et d’action durable, mais aussi en tant qu'outils de communication tant au niveau national que international. -
Odense
Call for papers: Gender in the European Town, Medieval to Modern
As places which fostered and disseminated key social, economic, political and cultural developments, historically towns have been central to the creation of gendered identities and the transmission of ideas across local, national and transnational boundaries. The Conference will be organised in three main strands. We encourage papers that address one of the strands, or proposals that cross the theme boundaries. They should also explore what influence gender has on the shape of towns themselves, as a force for change. We welcome local studies as well as more comparative approaches and encourage historiographical, theoretical and empirical considerations. -
Journal of Art History, Revista Estudos de Lisboa
Those interested in contributing to this issue of the Journal of Art History are invited to submit original papers. Discussion should focus on issues and problems such as: 1) New contributions to the History of the City: Architecture, Urban Planning and Heritage. 2) Lisbon Art History: Artists, models and case studies. 3) The image and images of Lisbon: evolution of the city’s iconography– from illuminated manuscripts to cinema. 4) Towards a history of Lisbon - reflections on Lisbon studies. -
Paris | Versailles
Conference, symposium - History
4th International Congress on Construction History
Après Madrid (2003), Cambridge (2006), Cottbus (2009), Paris a été choisie pour accueillir le quatrième congrès international d'histoire de la construction. Trois écoles d'architecture (Paris-Malaquais, Paris-La Villette et Versailles) ainsi que le Conservatoire des arts et métiers pilotent cet évènement. L'histoire de la construction apparaît par définition hybride, associant aussi bien la conception que la réalisation, comme la préservation, la technique que la culture, et se trouve de fait interdisciplinaire. Y participent aussi bien des historiens de toutes disciplines (archéologues, juristes, économistes, historiens de l'art, etc.) que des praticiens (ingénieurs, architectes, entrepreneurs, artisans). Plus de 350 chercheurs, enseignants et praticiens, vont présenter le dernier état de leur recherche dans ce champ et en débattre sur quatre sites parisiens et versaillais. 6 conférences plénières seront délivrées par des personnalités reconnues par leurs pairs. Les actes paraîtront chez Picard en 3 volumes le jour du congrès. Le programme ainsi que les modalités d'inscription sont en ligne sur le site: www.icch-paris2012.fr -
Barcelona
Rubrica contemporanea. New electronic journal on late modern and conteporary history
Appel à contributions de la nouvelle revue numérique d’histoire contemporaine Rubrica contemporanea. La revue accepte des articles originaux écrits en espagnol, catalan ou anglais et qui concernent tous les sujets portant sur l’histoire contemporaine (XIXe-XXe et XXIe siècle). -
Guimarães
Conference, symposium - Modern
Structures of the XXth Century: architectural heritage and patrimonialization
The evolution of the architectural languages of the XX century, from modernist to post-modernist, has often stressed the importance of structures in expressing and fostering innovation. However, in the patrimonialization processes identities, memories and languages, prevail on structures and materials, due to new uses, new norms and standards adaptation. -
Cambridge
Conference, symposium - History
Cities and Alternatives in the 19th Century
Imagined Civities is an interdisciplinary conference examining the changes in the Victorian city. Stemming from The Guild, the 19th century seminar held at Cambridge University, the conference aims to explore any aspect of cultural and intellectual responses to urbanisation in the 19th century. The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Peter Mandler.For more information and registration, please see http://theguild.posterous.com/ -
Call for papers - Urban studies
Call for paper for Boundaries, quarterly international magazine on contemporary architecture
Boundaries – international architecture magazine – introduces a call for papers for the fourth issue of the magazine on « The Outer City ». We encourage authors to explore any aspect of this topic, on which we wish to open a wide interdisciplinary debate. The deadline for submission of abstract in English or Italian is March 5, 2012. For further information and guidelines, see : http://www.boundaries.it -
Créteil
Urban renewal projects in Europe
The colloquium will try to highlight two issues about urban renewal projects, shared by all European countries. Who’s benefiting from urban projects? How is it possible to renew in a context of crisis? The first day will inquire both the place left to or/and taken by the citizens in urban projects, the targets of these projects and their social impacts. The second day will assess both the financial crisis impacts on governance, especially on the place of private and public sectors, and the environmental constraints to be taken into account in urban renewal. -
Brussels
Conference, symposium - History
Religious Practices and Christianisation of the Late Antique City
Le colloque a pour objectif de rassembler des historiens, archéologues, historiens des religions, autour du problème de la christianisation de la cité tardo-antique, et plus précisément autour des mutations des pratiques religieuses et de leurs conséquences sur la cité. On a vu dans l’interdiction des cultes païens au profit du christianisme le signe du passage d’une religion civique, extériorisation d’un rituel partagé de facto par tous les citoyens, à une religion communautaire, fondée sur l’adhésion confessionnelle de ses différents membres. Il s’agira dès lors de se demander dans quelle mesure l’abandon progressif des cultes païens, lesquels jouaient depuis toujours un rôle prépondérant dans la construction des identités civiques, au profit de nouvelles pratiques religieuses chrétiennes modifièrent les comportements sociaux, politiques, économiques et culturels. -
Lisbon
Quality life migration in non-metropolitan areas
Chamada de trabalhos para a sessão 49 do congresso de sociologia rural (World Congress of Rural Sociology), sob o tema Migração e qualidade de vida em áreas não-metropolitanas (Quality life migration in non-metropolitan areas). O congresso terá lugar de 29 de julho a 4 de agosto de 2012, em Lisboa (Portugal).
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