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KCL Cities Seminars 2012 Seminars and Events for the Spring Term: 2nd February 5-6pm Mixedness, Identity and Global Citizenship Prof Benjamin Bowling (School of Law, King’s College London) 16th February 5-6pm Governance in a Brazilian favela: seeing the state in everyday urban space Dr Jeff Garmany (Brazil Institute, King’s College London) 1st March 5-6pm Sensoria …
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(In)Flexible Cities (The Cambridge CRASSH City Seminar) meets on Tuesdays (4 times per term) at the new CRASSH Building (7 West Road, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge) from 5pm until 7pm. All are welcome. Program: (In)Flexible Cities Cities are as immobile as they are restless. Revolutions, disasters and visionary masterplans can transform cities, but they can also …
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Lectureship in Planning and Real Estate University College London – UCL Bartlett School of Planning The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7. The salary range will be £35,557 – £38,594 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. The Bartlett School of Planning at UCL is a research-led planning school with an international reputation, offering innovative …
The Editors of _Urban History_ (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Journals Online), are pleased to announced the launch of Urban History Multimedia, a website and blog to support scholars interested in publishing born-digital multimedia and interactive scholarship, using maps, graphics, video, and other media. Please visit: http://urbanhistorymultimedia.** usc.edu To access recent multimedia publications, how-to’s learn about …
URBAN ASSEMBLAGES AND COSMOPOLITICS “Design and displacement – Social studies of science and technology” Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Copenhagen, Denmark 17-20 October, 2012 http://www.easst.net/conferences/easst2012.shtml Deadline: 11 March, 2012 Large technical urban systems have represented a major …
REIMAGINING THE CITY: POSTWAR INTERNATIONAL EXPERTISE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Urban History Association (UHA) New York City, NY 26-28 October, 2012 http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html Deadline: 17 February, 2012 This panel seeks a contributor to complement three graduate students presenting papers on city planning and architecture in postwar cities in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe/Soviet Union, respectively. …
AG Architektursoziologie an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt 02.02.2012-03.02.2012, Darmstadt, Rundeturmstraße 10, Darmstadt Deadline: 20.01.2012 Am 2. und 3. Februar 2012 findet ein internationaler Workshop der AG Architektursoziologie an der TU Darmstadt statt. Das Programm versammelt international renommierte Forscher/-innen aus Architektur, Planung, Soziologie, Kunstgeschichte, Geographie und Anthropologie. Im Zentrum stehen die Konstitutionsbedingungen des architektonischen Feldes sowie …
Young Urban researchers at the Humboldt-University: Lossau und Lange: Julia Lossau has been an assistant professor of Cultural Geography at the Geographical Institute of the Humboldt-University since January 2006 (http://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/Members/lossau_julia). One of her specialist areas is in the field of theoretical cultural studies of the cities, which concerns itself with relationships between society, power and …
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The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA) is pleased to announce the inauguration of its journal _Urbanities_. _Urbanities_ will be published twice a year and include an “article section” (2000-3000 words max), review articles, book reviews, and sections on news, research done and in-progress, and recently completed doctorates …
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Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, 01.05.2012 Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2012 Das DFG geförderte Internationale Graduiertenkolleg (IGK 1705/1): “Die Welt in der Stadt: Metropolitanität und Globalisierung vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart” schreibt im Rahmen seiner ersten Förderphase zum 1.5.2012 folgende Stipendien und Stellen aus: 12 Stipendien für Doktoranden/-innen (in Höhe von 1.365,- EUR mit einer Laufzeit von max. …