CONFERENCE Looking Behind the Facade of the Ghetto. Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitant. Mainz, Germany. 30.03.-01.04.12

Looking Behind the Facade of the Ghetto. Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitant Conference of the Research Unit “Historical Cultural Sciences” (Forschungsschwerpunkt Historische Kulturwissenschaften, HKW) of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Philosophicum, Old Faculty Hall, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18 55128 Mainz, Germany March 30 to April 1, 2012 What do we know …

SHOWCASE, EXHIBITION: UCL Cities Methodologies 2012, UCL London. Deadline: 1st May 2012, 5pm

UCL Cities Methodologies 2012 Inaugurated in 2009, Cities Methodologies is a pan-UCL initiative to showcase innovative methods of urban research. Through exhibits and events, it draws together undergraduate, masters, and doctoral research, alongside work produced by academics, and the wider community of urban researchers. Proposals are invited from UCL staff, students and alumni, and other …

CONFERENCE, CfP: “Political Communication on the Spot” Democratic Cultures and the Local in Europe 1870-1990. 04.-06.04.13. Deadline: 31.03.12.

Politische Kommunikation vor Ort. Demokratische Kulturen und lokaler Raum in Europa 1870-1990 / Political Communication on the Spot. Democratic Cultures and the Local in Europe 1870-1990 Berlin, April 4 – April 6, 2013. Prof. Dr. Thomas Mergel / Claudia Christiane Gatzka M.A. / Benjamin Schröder M.A., Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Deadline: March 31, …

WORKSHOP, CfP: Imaginations of the street European Capital of Culture events and the right to the city, Munich, 03.-04.05.12. Deadline: 11.03.12

Imaginations of the street European Capital of Culture events and the right to the city Workshop, 3-4 May 2012 Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Organized by Dr. Derya Özkan, Vildan Seçkiner (M.A.) http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/13102 Deadline: 11 March 2012 This workshop is organized as part of the Emmy Noether Research Project “Changing Imaginations …

CONFERENCE: “Placing East Asia” A grad student conference on urbanism and the production of space, UC Berkeley, 02.-03.03.12

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …