CONF, CfP British Association for American Studies 58th Annual Conference. Panel on ‘Cultures of the American Suburbs’. Deadline: 15.10.2012

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS In 2013, the University of Exeter will be hosting the British Association of American Studies(BAAS) Conference from 18-21 April. Professor Dolores Hayden, author of _Building Suburbia: A Field Guide to Sprawl_ will be the keynote speaker, and the Cultures of the Suburbs Network will be hosting a panel on ‘Cultures of the …

PANEL SEARCH European Society for Environmental History Conference 20.-24.8.2013. Munich, Germany. Deadline: End August 2012

European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference 20-24 August 2013 Munich, Germany http://www.eseh2013.org/ For the ESEH conference in Munich, August 2013, we are organizing a session on rediscovering and re-surfacing urban waters.

PANEL SEARCH Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Los Angeles 9.-13.4.2013 Session Title: Moving to Berlin – A Growing Laboratory of Urban Thought and Research. Deadline: 1.9.2012

Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2013 Los Angeles April 9-13th. Session Title: Moving to Berlin – A Growing Laboratory of Urban Thought and Research Organizers: Sandra Jasper, UCL Urban Laboratory; Department of Geography, University College London (UCL) Sam Merrill, Department of Geography, University College London (UCL); Centre of Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin Julia …

PANEL SEARCH “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.” Mersin, Turkey 20.-23.3.2013. Deadline 15.9.12

As part of the annual Mediterranean Meeting to be held in Mersin, Turkey (March 20-23, 2013) we are coordinating a workshop on the links between violence, pluralism, urbanism and the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. The title of the workshop (no. 11) is: “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations …

PANEL SEARCH “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean.” Mersin, Turkey 20.-23.3.2013, Deadline: 15.9.2012

As part of the annual Mediterranean Meeting to be held in Mersin, Turkey (March 20-23, 2013) we are coordinating a workshop on the links between violence, pluralism, urbanism and the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. The title of the workshop (no. 11) is: “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations …

PANEL SEARCH: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND THE INNER CITY, Urban History Association (UHA) New York 26.-28.10.12. Deadline: 17.02.12

GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND THE INNER CITY Urban History Association (UHA) New York City, NY 26-28 October, 2012 http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html Deadline: 20 February, 2012 I am looking to form a panel for the Urban History Association Conference in October on the history of how grassroots activism changed in the inner city in the 1980s. Broadly speaking, the …

PANEL SEARCH: CITY POLITICS, INTEREST GROUPS AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, Urban History Association (UHA) New York 26.-28.10.12. Deadline: 17.02.12

CITY POLITICS, INTEREST GROUPS AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Urban History Association (UHA) New York City, NY 26-28 October, 2012 http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html Deadline: 17 February, 2012 I am seeking contributors to a panel on urban politics in the twentieth century. My paper will examine how business groups came to represent the public interest in twentieth century Los …

PANEL, CfP: CITY PLANNING EXHIBITS 26.-28.10.12 New York, USA. Deadline: 24.02.12

CITY PLANNING EXHIBITS Urban History Association (UHA) New York City, NY 26-28 October, 2012 http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html Deadline: Friday, February 24 We are hoping to complete a panel on “City Planning Exhibits” for the Urban History Association conference in October. Generally, we are interested in the ways in which urban reformers and planners have conceived of the …

PANEL SEARCH: URBAN ASSEMBLAGES AND COSMOPOLITICS “Design and displacement – Social studies of science and technology” 17.-20.10.12 Copenhagen

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 …

PANELSEARCH: Reimagining the City: Postwar International Expertise and the Built Environment New York, 26-28.10.12

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. …