CfA BOOK: Walking in the City: Quotidian Mobility and Ethnographic Method

Walking in the City: Quotidian Mobility and Ethnographic Method Edited by Timothy Shortell, Ph.D., and Evrick Brown, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College CUNY Deadline: 1 April, 2012 Local politicians, protesters, busy commuters, tourists, flaneurs, urban ethnographers. These social actors and many more work the city streets as an essential part of their quotidian routines. …

Sixth Biennial Urban History Association (UHA) Conference “THE COSMOPOLITAN METROPOLIS”, Columbia University, New York 26.-28.10.12

Sixth Biennial Urban History Association (UHA) Conference Columbia University, New York City October 26 – 28, 2012 http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html “THE COSMOPOLITAN METROPOLIS” Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2012 The Program Committee seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history for the Sixth Biennial Urban History Conference …

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 …

Security, CONF: Democracy and Cities – The Future of prevention – Saint-Denis, France. 12.12.2012

Democracy and Cities – The Future of prevention – Saint-Denis, France. 12.12.2012 Since its creation, 25 years ago, the Forum has organised every six years an international conference, allowing to build a common doctrine formalised in our Manifestos. Throughout the years, these manifestos have become a reference and circulate around the world, including in the …

CfP: The Dubai International Award (DIA) for Best Practices to improve the living environment, Deadline: 31.03.12

Call for proposals – The Dubai International Award (DIA) for Best Practices to improve the living environment UN-Habitat and Dubai Municipality offer you an opportunity for global recognition through the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment. Criteria for best practices The 9th cycle of the Dubai International Award (DIA) for …

Call for Articles: Special Issue of Iranian Studies Journal: Revisiting the Historiography: New Approaches to the Study of Persian Architecture, Deadline: 30.03.12

Special Issue of Iranian Studies Journal Revisiting the Historiography: New Approaches to the Study of Persian Architecture www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00210862.asp Guest-editor: Dr. Mohammad Gharipour Deadline: March 30, 2012 Initiated in the nineteenth century, the study of Persian architecture was advanced by such twentieth-century archeologists and Iranologists as Arthur Upham Pope, Ernst Herzfeld, Andre Godard, Roman Ghirshman, and …