PLACING EAST ASIA A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON URBANISM AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE University of California, Berkeley March 2-3, 2012 http://ieas.berkeley.edu/urbanism This two-day interdisciplinary conference brings together graduate students working on urban studies in the East Asian region. Although the wide range of urban forms and historical experiences in East Asia preclude any generalization …
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CONFERENCE: Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) Annual Meeting “The Political Economy of Cities”, San Antonio USA, 22.-24.03.12
Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) Annual Meeting 22-24 March 2012 San Antonio, Texas https://seawiki.wikidot.com/annual-meeting Program Chairs: Dolores Koenig ( dkoenig@american.edu ) and Ty Matejowsky ( Ty.Matejowsky@ucf.edu ) THEME: The Political Economy of Cities The Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, March 22-24, is focused on the political economy of cities. It offers four …
CfP, PANELSEARCH: New Deal Metropolis, Urban History Association conference, New York, 26.-28.10.2012
I am seeking papers for a proposed panel on the New Deal Metropolis at the Urban History Association conference in New York City from October 26-28, 2012. Although the New Deal period is most often framed in the popular imagination by images of rural life and landscapes produced by FSA photographers and WPA muralists, a …
REVIEW: Fabienne Chevallier “Le Paris moderne: Histoire des politiques d’hygiène, 1855-1898”
Fabienne Chevallier. _Le Paris moderne: Histoire des politiques d’hygiène, 1855-1898_. Rennes Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010. Illustrations. 410 pp. EUR 22.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-2-7535-1023-4. Reviewed by Peter S. Soppelsa (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Urban (February, 2012) Commissioned by Alexander Vari Hygiene and the Modernization of Paris
REVIEW: Susan Gilson Miller, Mauro Bertagnin, eds. “The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City”
Susan Gilson Miller, Mauro Bertagnin, eds. _The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City_. Aga Khan Program Book Series. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2010. Illustrations. 227 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-934510-06-3. Reviewed by Craig Larkin (Department of Politics) Published on H-Urban (February, 2012) Commissioned by Colette Apelian A Cosmopolitanism Reimagined
CONFERENCE: Sustaining Greenbelt’s Legacy, Greenbelt USA, 27.-28.04.12
“Sustaining Greenbelt’s Legacy” April 27-28, 2012 Greenbelt Community Center Greenbelt, MD www.greenbeltmd.gov/75 In 1937, the city of Greenbelt, Maryland, was settled as a public cooperative community under the auspices of the New Deal. 75 years later, a two-day symposium will celebrate and evaluate the developments since 1937. The conference, entitled “Sustaining Greenbelt’s Legacy”, is scheduled …
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LECTURES “In the Urban Crisis”, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, Thursdays 6p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design Thursdays at 6 p.m. The Keller Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York To celebrate the launch of its two new graduate programs focused on urban transformation, Parsons The New School for Design has organized “In the Urban Crisis,” a lecture series featuring leading voices shaping the global dialogue about …
CfA: Places Journal Call for articles on “Public and Private”
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/call-for-articles-public-and-private/31518/ Places Journal seeks articles that explore the complex dynamic of public and private in contemporary politics and culture, and how this dynamic influences the design and production of buildings, landscapes and cities. This is a large topic, indeed one of the central issues of our time. In the past generation we witnessed a fundamental …
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CfP, CONF: 9th International Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence, London Metropolitan University, 15.-17.11.12.
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design This conference aims to reflect on the relevance of the concept of dissidence for architectural practice today. Although dissidence has been primarily associated with architectural practices in the Eastern Bloc at the end of the Cold War period, contemporary architectural and other aesthetic practices have in recent years developed …
FUNDING: Postgraduate Scholarships: Built Environment, Design, General. Deadline: 1. March 2012
The Anglo-Danish Society invites applications from research students of British or Danish nationality for scholarships facilitating periods of research in the UK or Denmark. ADS particularly encourages applications from UK students wishing to conduct research in Denmark. For the academic year 2012-13, there are two targeted scholarships: The Ove Arup Foundation award of £2000, for …