CONF Research Conference: Mega-Events, Regional Development and Regeneration Regional Studies Association Research Network on Mega-Events Workshop Mega-Event Evaluation and Measuring Impacts. LMU, London, UK. 25.6.2012

Research Conference: Mega-Events, Regional Development and Regeneration
Regional Studies Association Research Network on Mega-Events
Workshop Mega-Event Evaluation and Measuring Impacts

25 June 2012 10 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.

London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre, Holloway Road, London N7 8DB
[nearest tube station: Holloway Road, Piccadilly line, or Highbury & Islington, Victoria line]

Regional Studies Mega-Events Panel:
Chair: Prof Graeme Evans, Brunel/Maastricht; Dr Bas van Heur, VUB, Cosmopolis Brussels;
Dr Lauren Andres, CURS Birmingham; and Prof Greg Richards, Tilburg University/ATLAS

Presenters:
Prof Graeme Evans, Regional Studies Network and Prof Greg Richards, ATLAS – Introductions
Dr Andrew Smith, Westminster University – Events and Urban Regeneration
Roger Taylor, CEO – London2012 Host Boroughs Unit
Prof Paul Brickell, Director of Regeneration – Olympic Park Legacy Company
Nicole Ferdinand, LondonMet, “Not entrepreneurial enough?”- The cultural entrepreneurs behind the Notting Hill Carnival
Dr Carol Scott (London & Sydney) – Cultural Olympiad Evaluation & Legacy

Enquiries and to book a place: o.edizel@londonmet.ac.uk

CONF SEM Beyond Social Exclusion: Emerging Logics of Expulsion. UCL, London, UK. 13.6.2012

Beyond Social Exclusion: Emerging Logics of Expulsion

13 June 2012, 4.30-6pm followed by drinks reception

Anatomy G29 J Z Young LT, Medical Sciences and Anatomy, UCL, Gower Street,

In the last two decades there has been a sharp growth in the numbers of people “expelled” from their homes, villages, life projects, and support systems; they include the displaced, the abjectly poor, workers destroyed by their jobs, as well as surplus populations housed in ghettos and slums. Their numbers are far larger than the new middle classes of India and China. Dr Sassen argues that this may be symptomatic of a systemic transformation taking us into a new phase of global capitalism.

Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Panel: Professor Peter Goldblatt, Deputy Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Julio D Davila, Development Planning Unit, UCL

The seminar is a joint Grand Challenge of Global Health and Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities event and is open to all. The conference is free to attend but registration is required.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3197649255?ref=ebtnebregn

LECTURE Leverhulme Public Lecture: The crisis in urban studies: revolution, reform and reconstruction. UCL London, UK. 31.5.2012

Leverhulme Public Lecture: The crisis in urban studies: revolution, reform and reconstruction

Thursday 31 May 6pm
UCL Geography Pearson Lecture Theatre, Pearson Building
(see www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps)

Professor Sue Parnell (African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, UCL)
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CONF Smart City Event 2012. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 27.06.2012.

From their homepage:

Successful European Smart City projects present their approach and tell you about the most successful profit-making models!

The Smart City Event 2012 is the largest conference within Europe where all the parties convene for 2 days to learn from the most progressive projects. The focus is on sharing knowledge to realise climate ambitions and energy transition!

Download the brochure of Smart City Event 2012

Unique keynote speech:

Rifkin, Jermemy_bt.jpg Jeremy Rifkin
Author of The New York Times bestselling book The Third Industrial Revolution and 18 other books. He is a consultant to the European Union and heads of state around the world. He is the president of The Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.More information about Jeremy Rifkin

Day’s chairman:

Cramer, Jaqueline_bt.jpg Jacqueline Cramer, Professor of Sustainable Innovation, Utrecht University, former Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

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RESEARCH PROJECT: SCIBE Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment – A Research Project funded by HERA

http://www.scibe.eu/

SCIBE explores the relationship between scarcity and creativity in the context of the built environment by investigating how conditions of scarcity might affect the creativity of the different actors involved in the production of architecture and urban design, and how design-led actions might improve the built environment in the future. The research is based on the analysis of processes in four European cities: London, Oslo, Reykjavik, and Vienna. More details of the project can be found here.

SYMPOSIUM, CONF La démocratie directe à l’épreuve du temps/ On-going Experiments in Direct Democracy Symposium. Clermont-Ferrand, France. 1.6.2012.

La démocratie directe à l’épreuve du temps/ On-going Experiments in Direct Democracy
Symposium : 1 juin 2012/June 1, 2012

Co-Organisé par/ Sponsored by :
Centre d’Histoire : Espaces et Cultures (CHEC), Université Blaise Pascal
Centre Michel de L’Hospital (CMH), Université d’Auvergne

Lieu/ Location :
Faculté de droit et de science politique/ School of Law and Political Science, Clermont-Ferrand
41 Bd François Mitterrand – Amphithéâtre Trudaine

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FUNDING 11 Doctoral Fellowhsips at interdisciplinary graduate program “Topology of Technology” at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. 3yrs, October 2012. Deadline: 1.6.2012

The interdisciplinary graduate program “Topology of Technology” at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, announces 11 doctoral fellowships, starting Oct. 1, 2012, and running for a maximum of 3 years.

The program is organized by teachers from the subjects of history, sociology, philosophy, mechanical engineering, computer science, sports science, and the planning sciences. It focuses on the relationship between technology and space – at present, in history, and in a possible future. It has four thematic foci:

– The Persistence and Routinization of Daily Life in Technical Surroundings
– The Formation and Limitations of Action in Spatial-Technological Settings
– The Planning and Design of Technologies in a Spatial Context
– The Modeling and Simulation of Spatial Relations by Technological Means

The program (GRK 1343) is primarily financed by the German Research Council (DFG); see: http://www.dfg.de

Monthly stipends are 1,365 euros (parents receive additional child allowances). There are no tax reductions; however, fellows have to finance their own health insurance.
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NEWSLETTER Planum: The Journal of Urbanism, May 2012

Dear Readers,

Planum. The Journal of Urbanism is pleased to present you a selection of Summer Schools and International Workshops for the forthcoming summer in Europe and all around the world.
The workshops have been selected for their aims and items, and for a good balance between topics, places’ explorations and periods of work. Workshops are open for applications for students and PhD students, practitioners and scholars (often for tutor positions) as well. Fell free to share our newsletter to wh
om may be interested, such as students, scholars or others colleagues. For further information follow the links on Planum “News and Events” column or to schools and associations websites.
Good reading and good summer applications!
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WEB tavernsproject.com Taverns, locals and street corners: Cross-chronological studies in community drinking, regulation and public space

http://tavernsproject.com/

Taverns, locals and street corners: Cross-chronological studies in community drinking, regulation and public space
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CONF: Return to the Street. Goldsmiths, University of London. 27.-28.06.2012.

A two day conference exploring the shifting role of the street as discourse and real physical space in the context of contemporary culture and politics.

Full conference programme available:
http://fuggbug.tumblr.com/post/22657511568/returntothestreetprog

Conference attendance is free of charge. Register at:
http://returntothestreet.eventbrite.com/

Identity formation and public debate do not simply occur online or through new media technologies. As the recent excessive imprisonment of those involved in the UK riots this summer demonstrated, the control and regulation of real bodies within real spaces is still very much at stake. Within the context of riots, protests and occupations in the UK and worldwide – the street appears to have become once more the space where people gather to be heard and counted. Considering this ‘return’ (although it is questionable whether we every really left the street) how might a line be drawn between the type of discourse which pays lip service to banal, neoliberal fetishised notions of street as site and object of subversive cool – incorporating graffiti, fashion, skateboarding, hiphop – and a more critical and engaged examination of processes of exclusion, confrontation and violence which constitute the everyday reality of life on and in the street. The street is and should not simply be flagged up as a site where power relations are toyed with as part of an ongoing Damien-Hirst-meets-Banksyesque flirtation between public and private space. Such fetishisation ignores or glosses over notions of territory, surveillance and fear.
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