Author Archives: Andreas Wagner

Conference Report: Modern Times – Zeiten der Stadt (German)

Beate Binder, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Sabine Fastert, Institut für Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin; Volker Hess, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Charité Berlin 25.02.2010-27.02.2010, Berlin Bericht von: Hanno Hochmuth, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin E-Mail: <hochmuth@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Kulturen des Wahnsinns bilden das Erkenntnisinteresse der gleichnamigen interdisziplinären DFG-Forschergruppe 1120 aus Berlin. Dabei geht …

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Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Enrico Gualini: Metropolitan space as strategic-relational construct: Multi-level governance, multi-scalar strategies, and the emergence of new policy spaces in the Randstad, 20.04.2011, Amsterdam

You are cordially invited to attend the Urban Studies Lecture by Prof. Dr. Enrico Gualini Metropolitan space as strategic-relational construct: Multi-level governance, multi-scalar strategies, and the emergence of new policy spaces in the Randstad Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 15:00 – 17:00, Roeterseiland – Building E – Room: E0.10 Metropolitan regions are increasingly characterized as emergent, …

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Study Program: City, Culture, and Community: Ph.D. in Sociology, Urban Studies, Social Work, Tulane University

I am pleased to announce that Tulane University has awarded funding for a new Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Urban Studies, and Social Work titled City, Culture and Community (CCC) (website: http://tulane.edu/ccc/). The newly formed CCC Ph.D. Program is a broad-based and integrative graduate education-research program that addresses interrelationships between the physical environment, the built environment, …

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Workshop: Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town, Chicago

Pullman: Labor, Race, and the Urban Landscape in a Company Town An NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop for Community College Faculty held at the Newberry Library, Chicago, July 11 ­ July 15, 2011 or August 15- August 19, 2011 Pullman—the site of both an imagined industrial utopia and one of the nation’s …

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Call for Manuscripts: _Places_

_Places_ is an interdisciplinary journal of architecture, landscape and urbanism, published online in partnership with the Design Observer Group, the leading website for news and commentary on design and social change. As we broaden our scope to include more narrative nonfiction, we are reaching out to colleagues in allied fields — including geography, history, ecology, …

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CfP: Peripheral Modernisms International Conference 23.03.2012, London

CALL FOR PAPERS: Peripheral Modernisms International Conference 23 March 2012 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The last decade has witnessed renewed scholarly interest in modernist and avant-garde studies. The study of Modernism as a global phenomenon and the exploration of the links between modernity and postcoloniality constitute …

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Conference SPACE AND FLOWS: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AND EXTRAURBAN STUDIES

Monash University Prato Centre Prato, Tuscany, Italy 17-18 November 2011 http://spacesandflows.com/conference-2011/ Following the success of our 2010 conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, the 2011 Spaces and Flows Conference will take place in Prato, Italy.  Prato is located in the Tuscany region of Italy, a short train ride from Florence and close to …

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CFP: Kontrolle des urbanen Raumes: Akteure. Strategien. Topographien – Berlin 06/11

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin29.06.2011-01.07.2011, Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3 Deadline: 31.03.2011 Trotz medialer Kommunikationsverdichtung gewinnt “Öffentlichkeit als räumliche Vorstellung” zunehmend an Bedeutung. Diese Räumlichkeit dient individualisierten Gesellschaften als Bühne bzw. Repräsentation von Sicherung und Zuordnung. Diese Bühnen bzw. Repräsentationen sind aber besetzt (policy of identity) und kontrolliert (gouvernance). Durch moderne Technologien und neue …

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Urban Studies lecture by Professor Sharon Zukin, Amsterdam, 5 April 2011

http://www.urbanstudies.uva.nl/urbanstudies_news/agenda.cfm/58F45DAD-0EF4-4E60-A508D4619FE20DC7 How Dutch Is It? Aesthetics, Ownership and Identity on an Amsterdam Shopping Street Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 15:00 – 17:00 hrs. “How Dutch Is It? Aesthetics, Ownership and Identity on an Amsterdam Shopping Street” Expanding her recent work on “authenticity,” gentrification and redevelopment in New York, Sharon Zukin turns an inquiring but critical eye …

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Conference: Elite Formation, Consumption and Urban Spaces (Tagung), 26. – 27.11.10, Berlin

http://www.sfb-repraesentationen.de/veranstaltungen/tagungen-und-workshops/elite-formation/ Elite Formation, Consumption and Urban Spaces (Tagung) Cultural Perspectives on African Decolonization During the second half of the twentieth century the African continent was shaped not only by political but also by social and cultural change and crisis. In the rapidly growing cities, new social spaces and groups emerged. These actors often portrayed themselves …

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