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Hammamet
Call for papers - Urban studies
Urban and architectural identities in Mediterranean cities
Identités urbaines et architecturales dans les villes méditerranéennes
The architectural and urban diversity characterising mediterranean city is inseparable from their identity. It seems clear at that this diversity and multiplicity of different identities shoud be considered as one of the greatest cultural and human values. The coexistence of forms in time and space, the blending of urban and architectural cultures, influences and contaminations, even the contrast and and contradictions of identity that are revealed in the mediterranean urban territory reflect the stratification of the city in its pragmatics implications and its identity meanings. Today, in a context of a competition and attractiveness betwen territories, several mediterranean cities are going through a period of profound changes. Faced with these transformations, the reference to "identity territories" (Troin, 2004) and the ability of the city to build an identity and speared it among the population are called into question.
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Port-au-Prince
What kind of development for “the post-crisis city”?
Des grandes villes dans le monde ont connu des épisodes traumatiques de fortesampleurs, marquant durablement ces espaces et leurs populations. Ces événements, parfois sources de transformations majeures des zones touchées, peuvent également révéler ou se faire le relais de mécanismes de crise plus profonds. À travers quatre axes de discussion (morphologie et composition des nouveaux tissus urbains, fabrication de marges sociospatiales, moteurs et pratiques du développement économique, citadinité et pratiques urabines), le colloque propose d'aborder les conséquences de ces périodes traumatiques sur les dynamiques urbaines, en interrogeant le rôle de la crise et son importance entant que facteur de causalité des évolutions récentes qui marquent ces villes.
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Constantine
Global economy and local development
To what extent the numerous very big Chinese enterprises (especially public capital, more or less controlled by the Chinese government) or smaller ones (privately owned, operated by a diaspora of petty entrepreneurs) today in Algeria in the construction, commerce, industry, services sectors, fosters a new growth dynamic based on a joint local / global economy? This conference should be an opportunity to deepen the debate by examining in particular the effects of the Chinese presence on local development. The papers should describe experiences related to the Chinese presence in Algeria focusing on its effects on the territories, and analyze them in comparison to other experiences in Algeria, Africa and the world. Emphasis will be placed on both the empirical and theoretical aspects. Different approaches (economics, sociology, anthropology, law, geography, political science, demography) could be used to study the environmental issue, to capture the relationship between business and territories and to implement tools and methods associated with these theoretical frameworks in order to achieve a socio-economic diagnosis of territories.
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Tunis
Call for papers - Urban studies
Ambiance as a key issue in the contemporary Mediterranean public space
International Conference, International Ambiances Network
Taking Tunisia — a tiny yet dense country — as a case study, this international conference addresses the possibility of sharing contemporary public spaces in the Mediterranean. It addresses the role played by architecture and urban forms in the sharing process itself and also invites to think of future forms and ambiences in a context of hyper-plurality in which the notion of neighborhood is put into question and the notion of space marking is more than ever re-explored.
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Tours
The real estate dynamic in Mediterranean cities: evolutions, actors and governance
Depuis les années 1980, les conditions de la production foncière et immobilière ont considérablement évolué dans les villes du pourtour méditerranéen : l’urbanisme de projet a fait florès, les politiques de libéralisation ont favorisé l’introduction d’investisseurs privés ; les crises financières et immobilières récentes perturbent les marchés fonciers urbains. Récentes, ces tendances ont évidemment des répercussions majeures tant sur les villes que sur les sociétés urbaines. D’où l’intérêt de remettre le foncier à l’agenda des recherches sur les villes méditerranéennes. À cette fin, nous proposons trois grands axes de réflexion : l’étalonnage des prix et des valeurs (et ses évolutions récentes) ; la production foncière : acteurs, filières et gouvernance ; les luttes sociales en lien avec le foncier et l’immobilier et les arbitrages opérés par les pouvoirs publics entre intérêts économiques et demande sociale locale.
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Hammamet
Conference, symposium - Geography
Sustainable cities in the Maghreb and Mediterranean
Rencontre scientifique, du 29 au 21 janvier 2010, sur les enjeux du développement durable des villes au Maghreb et en Méditerranée. Réunissant une quarantaine de professionnels et de chercheurs en sciences sociales, les journées seront centrées sur les actions et politiques urbaines invoquant et/ou expérimentant depuis le début des années 2000 les premières démarches dites de « développement durable » dans les pays de la rive sud de la Méditerranée et ainsi que leurs proches voisins du Nord et de l’Est. -
Tours
Lecture series - Urban studies
Mutual Heritage, from historical integration to contemporary active participation (2010-2011)
Dans le cadre du projet Mutual Heritage, from historical integration to contemporary active participation, un projet sur le patrimoine architectural et urbain récent dans le monde méditerranéen, un nouveau cycle de conférences est organisé en 2010-2011 par Laura Verdelli et Emilie Destaing, dans le but d'alimenter les questionnements posés par ce programme et d’encourager un échange avec les étudiants de différentes écoles d’architecture et d’aménagement. Financé par l'Union européenne dans le cadre du programme Euromed Heritage 4, le projet Mutual Heritage a pour objectif de développer des instruments et des compétences afin de faciliter l'intégration du patrimoine récent dans la vie quotidienne actuelle. -
Berlin
Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar (2009-2010)
Post-Ottoman Cities
What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies. Séminaire organisé par Ulrike Freitag et Nora Lafi. -
Berlin
Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2008-2009
Daily Life in Ottoman Towns
What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cosmopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies, with a specific focus on daily life issues. This seminar is supported by the research program ‘Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe’ EUME with funds of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
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