Announcing the 2013 Urban Forums
Between 26 April and 11 May 2013, the Network will host four conferences on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park to discuss the built environment, globailization and mobility, political networks and health in cities.
November 29, 2012
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Chicago Studies
University of Chicago
Program that offers courses connecting the University with Chicago, supporting faculty with research interests of Chicago, and supporting programs and events that connect the University with the city's communities, it's leaders, and it's past, present, and future.
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City & Society
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
City & Society, the journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, is intended to foster debate and conceptual development in urban, national, and transnational anthropology, particularly in their interrelationships. It seeks to promote communication with related disciplines of interest to members of SUNTA and to develop theory from a comparative perspective.
Articles reflecting applied as well as basic research interests are presented as case studies, comparisons, and syntheses based on literature review. City & Society also publishes individual reviews and review essays on books, films and exhibits. The pages of City & Society are also open to pieces of humanistic orientation, including historical, dialogical, narrative, poetic, and visual.
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City Institute at York University
York University
The City Institute at York University (CITY) brings together the university’s urban scholars conducting both applied and theoretical research across a broad range of fields and throughout each of its Faculties. This interdisciplinary institute facilitates critical and collaborative research, providing new knowledge and innovative approaches to comprehending and addressing the complexity of the “new city”.
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Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa
September 5–September 6, 2013
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
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European Association for Urban History
The European Association for Urban History was established in 1989 with the support of the European Union. The Association organizes conferences every two years. These biannual conferences provide a multidisciplinary forum for historians, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, art and architectural historians, economists, planners and all others working on different aspects of urban history. Membership in the Association is free of charge, and is demonstrated by repeated active participation at the conferences. The Association supports participation of young scholars by stipends, which cover registration fees, and since 2010 it even offers mobility stipends in a limited number of justified cases. The first conference took place in Amsterdam in 1992.
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Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies
July 1–July 3, 2013
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
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Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound
September 9–September 11, 2013
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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International Network for Urban Research and Action
The basic purpose of the Network is to develop and promote the interaction of social and environmental urban movements with research and theoretical anlysis. INURA brings together theorists and practitioners sharing a common, critical attitude towards contemporary urban development. The Network wishes to maintain an informal and commmitted approach to its work.
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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a new peer-reviewed publication cutting across both the humanities and the social sciences in order to better understand the culture(s) of cities. The journal is open to studies that deal with culture, urban spaces and forms of urbanized consciousness the world over.
Although we embrace a broad definition of urban cultural studies, we are particularly interested in submissions that give equal weight to: a) one or more aspects of urban studies (everyday life, built environment, architecture, city planning, identity formation, transportation…) and b) analysis of one or more specific forms of cultural/textual production (literature, film, graphic novels, music, art, graffiti, videogames, online or virtual space…) in relation to a given urban space or spaces.
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London Lives
University of Hertfordshire, University of Sheffield, Economic and Social Research Council, HRI
A searchable resource on crime, poverty, and social policy in London from 1690-1800 featuring 240,000 manuscripts from 8 archives, and 15 datasets, with access to 3.35 million names.
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Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Datasets
Pew Research Center
Variety of data sets on social & demographic trends
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Satellite imagery is used to map the world’s first cities in the Fertile Crescent.
March 27, 2012
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Sociologist Mike Bader dicusses the evolution over time of Tally's Corner, an intersection in Washington, D.C. made famous in the seminal work by Elliot Liebow.
March 03, 2011
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Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future
August 4–August 9, 2013
International Geographical Union
Kyoto, Japan
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Urban Forum
This journal addresses the broad developmental issues of urbanization in the Third World, providing a distinctive African focus on the subject. It examines urban societies from a variety of perspectives, including: issues of local governance, the role of city planning in free market systems, and the impact of multiethnic and multicultural formations in urban affairs. Urban Forum makes a special effort to examine specific cities in developing nations as legal and cultural entities in their own right.
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Urban Studies
Urban Studies is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles which deal with every kind of urban and regional problem that is susceptible to social science or other relevant analysis. These range from such problems as urban housing, employment, race, politics and crime, to problems of regional investment and transport. Although most articles published deal with problems located in the advanced industrial societies of Europe and the Americas, important articles dealing with these problems in Asia, the Third World and in Eastern Europe are also published regularly.
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Urbanism, Spirituality & Well Being
June 6–June 9, 2013
Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Center for Health and Global Environment, ACS Forum
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Urbanities
Urbanities is an international academic peer-reviewed journal. The Editorial and Scientific Boards reflect the journal’s aims and broad ethnographic spread, and include international scholars who specialize in different ethnographic and theoretical fields.
Urbanities aims at publishing original articles on research at the forefront of the discipline, at exploring new trends and debates in Urban Anthropology that promote critical scholarship in international anthropology and at highlighting the contribution of urban research to the broader society. Articles published in the journal are ethnographically based and address theoretical, methodological or public issues concerning all aspects of urban research. Urbanities is also committed to promoting debate between socio-cultural anthropology and biological anthropology as well as between anthropology and other cognate disciplines.
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An op-ed in the LA Times considers how the "white flight" of white residents moving from the suburbs to the city will affect inner city culture.
August 15, 2011
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