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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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Pessac
Heritage under protection and threat - selection criteria and the tools necessary to deal with the emergency and share memory?
« Il faut se hâter car les ruines s'amoncellent ; le temps détruit, et les hommes aident consciencieusement le temps » écrivit Leo Drouyn à la fin du XIXe siècle. Ce triste constat est-il d'un autre temps ? Notre journée d'études internationale propose un tour d'horizon qui, à partir d'une série d'exemples, nous permettra de mieux apprécier la situation actuelle. Patrimoine protégé ou menacé, quels critères de sélection ? Quels outils pour parer à l'urgence, conserver et partager la mémoire ?
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The Zabbaleens - a victim of over-analysis?
Revue Égypte Monde arabe journal
Les chiffonniers du Caire, ou zabbalin en arabe, ont fasciné les chercheurs et journalistes depuis plusieurs décennies. Ces communautés vivant de la collecte des déchets, de leur recyclage et de l’élevage de porcs nourris par les restes organiques, se situent en effet à la croisée de nombreuses problématiques fondamentales liées à la capitale égyptienne. Leur situation souligne les failles d’un État qui ne s’est avéré capable ni de gérer le ramassage des ordures ménagères, ni d’intégrer pleinement cette population marginalisée. L’objectif de ce numéro d’Égypte Monde Arabe est de rassembler pour la première fois les nombreuses études portant sur les divers aspects touchant à la vie et l’activité des zabbalines, mais aussi d’interroger de façon critique une certaine fascination académique pour cet objet d’étude.
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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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Marseille
Call for papers - Urban studies
Gouvernance des métropoles méditerranéennes : quels modèles, quels outils ?
Dans le cadre des deuxièmes rencontres de l’AViTeM qui auront lieu fin janvier 2015 à Marseille, il est organisé une première journée d’études sur la « Gouvernance des métropoles méditerranéennes : quels modèles, quels outils ? ». Cette première journée d’études organisée dans le cadre du réseau MEDITER vise à favoriser le dialogue entre les universités et les professionnels sur les politiques urbaines et territoriales en Méditerranée. L’objectif final du réseau est de favoriser la naissance de réflexions croisées sur la réalité et les enjeux de la ville méditerranéenne aujourd’hui. Pour cela il s’appuie sur un réseau de laboratoires ciblés et l’organisation de journées d’études thématisées liant recherche fondamentale et praticiens de l’aménagement. Cette journée d’études, avec publication des actes, permettra de poser une première pierre visant à favoriser des échanges scientifiques de haut niveau en matière d’aménagement et de développement territorial sur le pourtour méditerranéen.
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Ramallah
Conference, symposium - Sociology
Contestations, Emotions! Social and artistic expressions in the Public Space
A theoretical and practical perspective from the ground
During the recent movements of contestation in Mediterranean countries different kind of aesthetic gestures using the streets and the public spaces as places for a public manifestation of some social, ordinary -or radical- critic. They proceed from an ordinary culture that is transformed, adapted then spread out upon a new form in artistic tracks taking place in public spaces. These actions have both a critical and aesthetic dimension. They rely on the environment, mobilize cognitive, memorial and cultural or ordinary patterns. They also mobilize a common culture . This is the case of rap, new uses of old music, villages against occupation, graphic art in Palestine, in Egypt or in Syria. The conference will present and analyse some forms of experimentations, and public and critical commitments. What kind of “public spaces” is in use nowadays? How it configures new spaces of critic and public space and a new environment ? The panel will adopt a trans-disciplinary perspective by bringing together social scientists and practicers or activists.
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Istanbul
Call for papers - Urban studies
Climatic change, air quality and energy challenges: the role policy in urban transport and preventative measures in developing countries and emerging economies
Transport is an integral component of sustaining livelihoods: without efficient urban transport mankind would not survive and develop and nor would economies. Yet, despite the immense benefits that transport enables, such as access to jobs, markets, education, and consumer goods and services via global supply chains, the transport sector generates substantial disbenefits. These include dependence on non-renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions, local pollutions, road accidents and inequalities of access. Such disbenefits clearly demonstrate that the transport sector is currently unsustainable economically, environmentally and socially.
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Istanbul
Metropolitan energy policies: the case of the Turkish cities
Call for paper for a Seminar at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA), co-organized by Eric Verdeil (Jean Moulin University in Lyon - UMR Environment City Corporation) and Jean-François Pérouse (Galatasaray University and IFEA). The report Energy and Urban Innovation (2010) by the World Energy Council underlines the fundamental role of cities in the energy transition and the interlocking of several series of actions, related to technology, economy and policy. It appears that the political and social practices are a major issue and justify an increased contribution of social sciences to the analysis of the implementation of these new policies. The seminar intends to address these issues in the case of large Turkish cities. -
Geneva
Un exceptionnel module de master en histoire de l'art et en arabe sur les arts, l'architecture et l'urbanisme dans le Proche-Orient arabe à l'université de Genève grâce à l'invitation par la Maison de l'histoire de la professeur Mercedes Volait (INHA) au semestre de printemps 2012. Le cycle de conférences public se tient dans les locaux de l'Institut national genevois. -
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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