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Yerevan | Istanbul
Memory book. Collective monograph
The Cultural and Social Narratives Laboratory (CSN Lab.) together with the City Detective - Palimpsest Center for Space and Memory announces a call for academic contributions to the “Balat: Living Together” project that aims at researching the peaceful dwelling experiences and the memory of multicultural community in Balat district, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Clermont-Ferrand
Conference, symposium - Europe
Paradigms, models, scenarios and practices in terms of strong sustainability
While the notion of sustainability continues to be associated with the Brundtland Report (1987) and the concept of sustainable development, a community of sustainability researchers and practitioners increasingly seeks to emancipate the concept to be consistent with the knowledge and aspirations of the moment. The enthusiasm and expectations for more sustainability go beyond mere environmental issues. They touch on crucial social issues as well. The symposium papers intends to question the paradigms, models, scenarios and practices that embody sustainability. One may wonder what meaning should be given to the very idea of sustainability and the representations it conveys.
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Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology
The Orient at Home: The Racialized Other and the Transformation of the Urban Space
This panel, organized in the framework of the 7th APA Congress (Portuguese Anthropology Association), aims to explore interactions between different social and ethnic groups in historically marginalized and currently gentrified neighborhoods and the changing policies and discourses regarding these spaces.
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London
Institute of advanced studies talking points seminar
Taking her recently published book Ethnography of Urban Territories (2018) as a starting point for this Talking Points Seminar, Monika Streule invites exploration and discussion of the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in today’s urban studies.
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Religious urbanisation and development in Africa
The volume will critically explore how processes related to religious urbanization intersect with different notions of development in African contexts. Cities are taken to be powerful venues for the creation and implementation of models of development whose moral, temporal, and political assumptions need to be examined, not least as they intersect with religious templates for the planning and reform of urban space.
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The materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration
Special issue in the Journal “Mortality”
The interdisciplinary journal Mortality calls for submissions from all disciplines to reflect on the materiality and spatiality of death, burial and commemoration: Death, dying and burial produce artefacts and occur in spatial contexts. The interplay between such materiality, spatiality and the bereaved who commemorate the dead yields interpretations and creates meanings that can change over time. In this special issue we want to publish papers that explore this interplay by going beyond the consideration of simple grave artefacts on the one hand and graveyards as a space on the other hand, to examine the specific interrelationships between materiality, spatiality, the living and the dead.
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Brussels
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology
PhD position in Chinese studies and cultural studies
This project will explore how young Chinese cosplayers engage with the public at large to express new identities in spaces that are heavily regulated by social and political censoring mechanisms. On the one hand, this doctoral research will explore the structural organisation of Chinese cosplay (associations, conventions); on the other hand, it will look into specific bodily performances in public spaces.
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Barcelona
Call for papers - Urban studies
Global Cities and Cosmopolitan Dreams
Part of the Research Program on: Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self, 1st International Symposium
This project is interested in exploring the changing ideal of the city, exploring its ideological foundations, its physical construction, its social and political significance, its aesthetic value and its metaphorical meaning.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
Becoming Local. Transforming Spaces, Redifining Localities
International Conference and Workshop AESOP / LAA-LAVUE
Becoming Local Paris is a three days gathering dedicated to questioning the conflict between the local and global scale in the production of contemporary spaces, by proposing a reflection on the notions and categories used to describe local identities in the context of urban transformation. Through a "talk, walk and work" meeting, researchers, scholars and practitioners, will develop a comparative approach on the meaning of "local" in different case studies around the world.
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Abu Dhabi
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
Boom Cities: Urban Development in the Arabian Peninsula
Cities in the Arabian Peninsula are at the intersection of global energy markets, local and regional politics, international investment, religious networks, and labor migrations. This conference convenes international specialists of urban studies to map the latest evolutions in the field. -
Florianópolis
Doing Gender 10 – Current Challenges of Feminisms, Thematic Symposia n°076
Historically, the Gay Liberation Movement emerged as a collective wish for social transformation regarding sexual practice, sex roles, gender prescriptions and the privitization/commodification of relationships. The movement was situated in a context of other movements for visionary social change regarding race, citizenship, women’s autonomy, children’s rights, national identity, regional self-determination and a revolution in the distribution of wealth. The AIDS crisis propelled a profound transformation of the LGBT community from a political movement to a consumer group. Abrupt changes in media representation, psychological consequences of the mass death experience, and the impact of widespread loss of generations and individuals in traumatic and sudden ways resulted in the grassroots Gay Liberation Movement fading into history, to be replaced by a Gay Rights Movement, controlled from the top down by national organizations with paid staff and LGBT individuals situated within ruling political parties, lobbying from within the cultural frameworks of those constructions. This confluence of Rights and Nation States, lead to what Rutgers Professor Jasbir Puar called “Homonationalism”, the granting of Gay Rights in the service of state interests rooted in supremacy ideology about race, gender, class and ethnicity. -
Call for papers - Urban studies
Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences
The Editors of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge) announce the call for papers on: Black Paris: Place, Circulation and the Mapping of Black Experiences. -
Barcelona
Call for papers - Urban studies
1st International Conference on Anthropology and Urban Conflict
Desertions, Counter-movements, and Forced Mobilizations in the Contemporary City
The aim of this conference is to make an inventory and to analyze, from different ethnographic approaches, those often invisible phenomena of daily or extraordinary disobedience designed for, or inspired by, a rejection of spatial, economic, political, and social order. However, in order to identify them as mechanisms aimed at denouncing a particular order, we must approach these by looking at concepts that synthesize at once the processes that impose a homogeneous order as well as the practices that challenge it. -
Prague
What's in a name? How we label peripheral places
Le mouvement d’urbanisation qui a touché l’ensemble des continents au vingtième siècle s’est accompagné de l’apparition de nombreux mots, dans diverses langues, pour désigner les espaces urbains périphériques. Cette session au onzième colloque international d’histoire urbaine prétend les explorer. -
Geneva
Call for papers - Urban studies
Gated Communities - Between Innovation and Urban Fortifications
Appel à contribution pour le colloque « Les communautés fermées entre innovation et fortification urbaines » organisé conjointement par Fondation Braillard Architectes, Genève, l'Institut de géographie de l'université de Lausanne et la chaire « Urbanisme et gouvernance » de l'Institut des sciences de l’environnement de l'université de Genève. Le colloque se déroulera le 8 avril 2011 à Genève. Les propositions de contributions sont attendues d'ici au 18 octobre 2010.
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