events
Ein ausführlicher Kalender von internationalen Kongressen ist auf der TRIALOG-Seite
www.trialog-journal.de unter ‚Veranstaltungen’ aufgelistet.
Wenn Sie eine Veranstaltung organisieren oder empfehlen möchten, schicken sie bitte eine Mail an par@par.tu-darmstadt.de
CUOTA DE INSCRIPCION: Los interesados pueden participar como ponentes o delegados, con una cuota de inscripción de 150.00 CUC
E-mail: universitur2@avc.cyt.cu
The aim of the conference is to focus the role of cities and regions in discussions of sustainable development. What do the contradictory trends in cities and regions imply? How are affiliation and alterity constructed? What does the talk of the sustainable and liveable city or region mean? Who represents whom and on what mandate in such discussions?
Consult the website at www.oru.se/cures2009 for more information.
Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses
This conference challenges academics and activist-scholars alike to reflect upon the realities and potentialities of research on marginalized urban populations in the context of their struggles. We invite scholarly contributions which illuminate issues of representation by exploring multiple
axes of identity such as class, race, gender, ethnicity, age, ability / disability, and sexuality.
Submission materials and general inquiries should be addressed to:
LumpenCity2009@gmail.com
, Germany
Sustainability Issues and Challenges for Spacial Planning in the 21st Century Cities and Regions
Info: www.Up8.org
The Netherlands,
This conference is organise by University of Amsterdam and supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies
of the University of Amsterdam (AMIDSt).
It will be a small-scale international conference with a maximum of 50 participants of several academic backgrounds. Participation is restricted to authors or co-authors of the papers presented at the
conference. The general theme of the conference is the interconnection between family and residential choice. The focus of the papers can either be on the nuclear family or on family members living outside the household, such as siblings and (grand)parents.
Contact m.blaauboer@uva.nl or phone +31205256032. Website http://www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/fmh.cfm.
Spain
Cities 3.0. Strategies, Concepts and Technologies for Planning the Urban Future.
Registration Fee €380.- Info: www.cop.at
Germany
Spatial Differentiation in the Face of Demographic Change
Organised by; ARL, Leibniz Institut für Länderkunde, Leibniz Institut fur Okologische
Raumentwicklunf, IRS, and Technische Universität Dresden.
Contact: www.leeresland-buntestadt.de or g.hutter@ioer.de.
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Sustainable Development and Multisectoral Approaches.
The Conference is a week long, practitioner and research focussed conference, exchanging knowledge and experiences in the water and sanitation sector.
Info: http://www.wedcconference.co.uk
The website provides free downloads of more than 1,000 papers which have been presented at WEDC International Conferences since 1994
Madrid, Spain
The European Urban Research Association (EURA) and the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) will hold their second Joint Conference on
• Climate change, resource use, and urban adaptation.
• Knowledge and technology in urban development.
• Community development, migration and integration in urban areas
• Urban governance and city planning in an international era.
• Architecture and the design of the public realm.
Detailed information at http://www.cityfutures2009.com/
Berlin, Germany
Ausnahmezustand and the Urban Condition
Fifth Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Graduate Program, Berlin – New York
The aim of this conference is to use the concept of Ausnahmezustand to illuminate urban conditions and imaginaries and to investigate unveiled mechanisms and structures in order to gain a deeper understanding of how power functions in transforming the urban substance. In the context of a “state of emergency,” Ausnahmezustand is widely understood as an official declaration that temporarily suspends existing rights, rules and regulations. In order to deal with an immediate crisis, such as a natural disaster, political emergency, threat of civil war or popular upheaval, which often have their most profound effect on cities, the state suspends or alters rules, norms or practices. The implementation of a state of emergency represents the authority's attempt to regain control of a threatening situation, affirm and legitimate its sovereignty, ensure its monopoly on violence and to reestablish the status quo.
Please submit a short CV and a less than 300 word abstract in English to ausnahmezustand@metropolitanstudies.de by February 2nd, 2009.
.Por una cultura energética sustentable
Info: www.ciercuba.com
Marseille, France
"Cities and climate change - Responding to an Urgent Agenda".
This Symposium aims at pushing forward the research agenda on climate change from a city's perspective. Specifically, the main questions will be structured around the impacts of city and urban growth on climate change; measuring and anticipating the consequences of climate change on urban quality of life, city assets, and local and national economies; and assessing alternatives to increase the resilience of cities and related costs and incentives required for successful implementation.
Contact: isabel.diaz@i-carre.net
Internet: www.urs2009.net
1st July,
Prague
The aim of the European Network for Housing Research is to enhance the scientific quality and practical relevance of housing research in Europe. The political, economic and institutional integration of Europe spanning from Ireland to Caucasus opened wide geographical area for concern of housing research within an “enlarged” Europe. Europe now includes well established market economies in west as well as newly established democracies with an ongoing transformation of not only institutional structures but more importantly of social structures, cultural values, regional systems and cities as well as housing
Contact: www.enhr.ibf.uu.se
Berlin, Germany
Die Konferenz findet als eine von mehreren fachpolitischen Konferenzen
zur Deutschen Anpassungsstrategie statt. Zweck ist, die bisher erarbeiten Strategien und regionalen Handlungskonzepte der Raumentwicklung vorzustellen,diese vor dem Hintergrund neuer Erkenntnisse der Klimamodellierung zu konkretisieren, den Erfahrungsaustausch auf europäischer Ebene zu intensivieren und die neuen Modellvorhaben der Raumentwicklung zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel vorzustellen.
Weiterhin sollen von Dritten erarbeitete Ergebnisse zu Strategien der Raumentwicklung auf der Konferenz diskutiert werden.
Info: www.bbr.bund.de.
México DF
Los pueblos americanas – cambios y continuidades – La construcción de lo propio en un mundo globalizado.
Manteniendo la tradición de nuestros congresos y el deseo de garantizar la participación de la mayor cantidad de científicos que trabajan sobre los diversos campos del conocimiento de la realidad americana hemos decidido mantener y ampliar los ámbitos de exposición de los avances científicos y de discusión de los mismos, enfatizando la Inter y la multidisciplinaridad en los procesos globales de las Americas, para lo cual proponemos las siguientes áreas temáticas:
Arqueología - Antropología Social, Antropología Cultural y Etnología - Antropología Física y Bioantropología - Lingüística y Literatura - Historia, Etnohistoria - Historia del Arte e Iconografía - Derechos Humanos - Movimientos Sociales - Estudios económicos y sociales - Procesos Políticos -Pensamiento, Filosofía e Historia de la ciencia - Educación -Globalización, Patrimonio y Políticas Públicas Ciencias, Tecnologías y Medio Ambiente - Ciencias de la Comunicación, Salud y Cultura - Estudios de Género
Abstracts until 31.3.2008 to:
ica53.secretariageneral@gmail.com;
ica53.secretariageneral@yahoo.com.mx
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging
Inequality remains a central feature of societies, although inequality is now more fragmented, and more associated with specific groups. Class identities have also changed, and in a broader sense, so too has the way people understand their participation in society. Social inclusion remains a key material, symbolic and political issue in a variety of national situations, although also marked by local features in each case. In countries where the issue of inclusion was considered to be resolved, at least politically, some social groups have experienced a declining sense of involvement in society, reposing the problem of social belongingness.
Deadline for Papers: 31st April 2009.
Info:: isasp2009@cebrap.org.br ecmarq@uol.com.br
Housing Assets, Housing People
The conference theme is the turbulence in international housing credit and its human impacts on communities and inequalities at different spatial scales. Is housing just another globalised commodity or is it fundamentally local? The conference welcomes papers from all social sciences and from across the world for plenary, panel, doctoral and workshop sessions. Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research from a sociological or social sciences perspective (i.e. geography, political science, public or social policy, economics, finance, management & business, planning, anthropology, real estate and behavioural science).
Mail: k.gibb@lbss.gla.ac.uk Info www.glasgow.ac.uk/urbanstudies
Songdo New Town, Korea
Main Theme: Dreaming about a Sustainable City. Other conference topics include:
1. Global City; 2. Cities of Corea; 3. Local Agenda 21; 3. Action Plan; 4. Field Trips.
Official Website: www.wsdcf2009.org.
Leipzig, Germany.
The conference invites interdisciplinary contributions of worldwide regions from all fields of urban research such as: land use, social polarization, security, energy, water and sanitation, waste, mobility and transportation, air
quality, health, food supply, economic productivity, climate, ecology. Proposed work is expected to examine these fields by means of modeling, monitoring, quantitative and qualitative social/political science research and scenario techniques. Interdisciplinary contributions are expected to present re-search that connects to any of the three main themes Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable development. Conference Fee: 215 €.
www.megacity-conference2009.ufz.de
La Habana, Cuba
El territorio y los asentamientos humanos frente a los retos ambientales, sociales y economicos del siglo XXI. Costo de Inscripción: $ 250. . www.cubatur.cu Contact: eventos3@cbtevent.cbt.tur.cu
INTA is dedicated to servicing the city and all its inhabitants. It is a catalyst for exchange of experiences and practices in urban development focusing on the nature, methods and processes by which urban policy objectives are achieved. INTA is the world forum where these issues are debated between private and public urban actors at local, regional and national levels
Porto, Portugal.
Info: isocarp@isocarp.org, isocarp2009@fe.up.pt.
Istanbul, Turkey
Urban Dynamics and Housing Change
Organised by: Istanbul Technical University.
Gothenburg, Sweden
The first decade of the 21st century has brought challenges, old and new: global financial crises, unprecedented climate change, increasingly volatile and conflict-ridden international borders, growing North/South inequality, emerging digital and youth culture, and more. The topics may cover:
• Global warming and the sustainable city;
• Urban justice and sustainability;
• The city and the state;
• North/South differences in the urban world;
• Global financial crises and urban experiences;
• The global financial crisis and urban housing markets;
• Urban culture, public arts and public space;
• Violence and conflicts;
• Gender and power;
• Changing urban regimes and governances;
• Poverty, inequality and citizenship;
• Integration and segregation;
• International cluster to cluster linkages; and
• Innovation, cultural economy, and the creative city
See more on http://www.isasociology.org/congress2010.
Should you be interested in organizing a session in the urban context /RC 21), your session proposal including session title, short description (within 150 words), and your name, affiliation and email address as an organizer should be sent to:
Gothenburg conference coordinators: Fernando Diaz Orueta Fernando.diaz@ua.es and Kuniko Fujita fujitak@msu.edu by December 31, 2008.