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By professionaldreamers, on September 3rd, 2010
The Fourth Nordic Geographers Meeting will take place in Roskilde at Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark, from May 24th-27th 2011. If you have suggestions for sessions during the conference we willappreciate to receive these before OCTOBER 1st. Please mail all suggestions to the conference administration (ngm04@ruc.dk)
The conference theme will be ‘Geographical Knowledge, Nature and Practice’
The keynotes are:
Nigel Thrift, Professor, University of Warwick, UK
Kirsten Simonsen, Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
Bruce Braun, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
Morten Pejrup, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gillian Rose, Professor, The Open University, UK
Ole Hertel, Adjungeret professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
Luiza Bialasiewicz, Senior Lecturer, University of London, UK
The members of the organizing committee are:
Michael Haldrup (chair), Eva Bøgh (web), Anita Kjølbæk (logistics),
Jonas Larsen (web), Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt (logistics), Kirsten
Simonsen, Lasse Koefoed, Henrik Toft Jensen and Keld Buciek.
The secretary can be contacted at this email: ngm04@ruc.dk. For further information about the conference, please consult the homepage of the conference:
http://ruconf.ruc.dk/index.php/ngm/ngm2011/schedConf/invitation
By professionaldreamers, on September 3rd, 2010
Call for Papers
From March 21st-23rd, 2011, the Center for Mobilities Research and
Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia will be hosting a joint
international conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Network and the
Cosmobilities Network. We invite abstracts (800 words) to be submitted
to mimi.sheller@drexel.edu by October 15th, 2010, for papers addressing
the following themes.
Keynote Speakers include:
* Caren Kaplan (University of California, Davis)
* Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto)
* Adriana de Souza e Silva (IT University of Copenhagen / North
Carolina State University)
Also featuring: LoVid (artists Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus)
In the early 21st century people, images, information, goods and even
our bodies are moving differently than they did in the past, often in
more dynamic, complex and trackable ways than ever before.
Technological, social and cultural developments in transportation,
border control, mobile communication, ‘intelligent’ infrastructure,
surveillance and global positioning are rapidly changing the conditions
of possibility for all forms of mobility and accessibility. While for
some this means moving ever faster, farther and more frequently, for
others it may bring turbulence, friction, slower speeds, and limited
access. Furthermore, in the near future the carbon-based mobilities of
the 20th century will likely be replaced by alternative transport
systems and fuels, and perhaps less mobile societies.
At the same time, new mobile social media, locative social networks, and
digital arts are handling movement and connectivity in new ways,
creating new kinds of hybrid public spaces. And, most importantly, new
alternative cultures of mobility are also emerging, as people enact,
perform, and combine mobility and stillness in new ways. Innovative ways
of dwelling, communicating, and moving (as well as policing,
surveilling, and excluding) are already emerging in relation not only to
the challenges of environmental pressures, fuel security, and economic
turbulence, but also to novel possibilities brought about through
creative innovation. This is a time of mobility challenges that will
demand all kinds of different solutions, new thinking, experimentation
and living differently.
In order to grasp these trends, ‘mobility’ has become a keyword in the
social sciences, delineating a new domain of concepts, approaches, and
methodologies that seek to better understand the character and quality
of mobilities and immobilities, their inter-relation, and their
contested futures. This conference seeks to advance the field of
mobilities research, bringing together both established and new
researchers from across the Americas and Europe to present up-to-date
research on a wide range of transdisciplinary topics that address some
of the most compelling issues that we face in the world today.
How can we break away from routinized practices that reproduce existing
systems of transportation, urban planning, and dwelling? How can the
search for new openings, possibilities, or ways of leading life propel
us towards alternative mobility futures? How can transdiciplinary
exchanges across the arts, social science and technology help us
generate new approaches to mobilities in motion?
We invite papers that address these themes or related topics:
* Aeromobilities, air travel, and aerial vision
* Alternative mobilities and slow movements
* Borders, surveillance, and securitization
* Critical geographies of logistics
* Embodied performance and affective mobility
* Friction, turbulence and rhythms of movement
* (Im)mobilities over the lifecourse
* Mobile communication and new urban spatialities
* Mobile gaming and locative social media
* New methodologies for mobilities research
* Planning, policy and design for future mobilities
* Tourism, imaginary travel, and virtual travel
* Transitions toward sustainable mobilities
* Qualities, materialities, and feelings of being in motion
Disciplines represented at the conference may include (but are not
exclusive to): Anthropology, Architecture and Design, Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Communication, Criminology, Cultural Studies,
Geography, Media and Visual Arts, Politics and International Relations,
Public Policy, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, Tourism
Research, Transport Research, and Urban Studies.
Conference registration: There will be a registration fee of $225
(discounted to $150 for students, and for those coming from the Latin
American or Caribbean countries), which will include a conference
dinner, coffee breaks, lunch, and snacks during the conference, as well
as a special reception. Discounted rates on local hotel bookings will be
available to conference participants.
Organizing Committee:
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Jennie Germann-Molz
Ole B. Jensen
Paola Jiron
Sven Kesselring
Adriana de Souza e Silva
Phillip Vannini
We look forward to receiving your abstracts and welcoming you in
Philadelphia.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2010
Length: 800 words (including
references)
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2010
Registration deadline: 30 January 2011
Conference Dates: 21-23 March 2011
Please send your abstract to: mimi.sheller@drexel.edu
A publication based on the conference is planned for 2012. Best papers
will be selected and the authors will be invited to submit a full paper
by September 2011.
Conference location:
Behrakis Grand Hall and University Conference Center,
Macalister Hall, Drexel University
33rd & Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA
By professionaldreamers, on September 3rd, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
March 16-19, 2011
Rebuilding efforts–in New Orleans, Port au Prince and other parts of the world– provide an opportunity to examine the paths selected for public policy and private investment, and how these decisions shape the future of urban places. Six years after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is in the midst of a large-scale rebuilding effort and redefinition of place. Powerful dynamics at the local, regional, national and international levels filter various values and interests to yield a powerful development logic. This logic determines the nature of change, its impacts, and most importantly, who benefits and who ultimately pays. New Orleans provides a dramatic and significant context to examine the processes and outcomes of change. However, developmental change in New Orleans has much in common with transformative processes that occur in other urban places. Critical perspectives suggest that change and transformation of cities across the globe, increasingly favors private capital, large institutions, and visitors. This bias poses certain challenges to the possibility of building a just and sustainable future for cities. The conference is an invitation to consider a broad range of concepts and strategies for rebuilding that can yield urban futures that are both equitable and sustainable. The challenges embedded in seeking such futures are significant. The conference will seek to identify ways to overcome those barriers while reclaiming the city.
In keeping with the tradition of UAA Annual Meetings, we encourage proposals that focus on the conference theme as well as submissions on the array of research topics typically found at UAA conferences:
Arts, Culture, Media
Disaster Planning for Urban Areas, Disaster Management, Emergency Preparedness, Cities and Security
Economic Development, Redevelopment, Tourism, Urban Economics, Urban Finance
Education, Schools, Universities
Environmental Issues, Sustainability, Urban Health, Technology and Society
Globalization, International Urban Issues
Governance, Intergovernmental Relations, Regionalism, Urban Management
Historic Preservation, Space and Place
Housing, Neighborhoods, Community Development
Human/Social Services, Nonprofit Sector
Immigration, Population and Demographic Trends
Infrastructure, Capital Projects, Networks, Transport, Urban Services
Labor, Employment, Wages, Training
Land Use, Growth Management, Urban Development, Urban Planning
Poverty, Welfare, Income Inequality
Professional Development, The Field of Urban Affairs
Public Safety in Urban Areas, Criminal Justice, Household Violence
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Diversity
Social Capital, Democracy and Civil Society, Social Theory, Religion and the City
Urban Design, Urban Architecture
Urban Indicators, Data/Methods, Satisfaction/Quality of Life Surveys
Urban Politics, Elections, Citizen Participation
Urban Theory, Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban Affairs
Proposal Deadline—October 1, 2010
Proposals can be submitted for papers, panels (a group of 3–5 formal papers with moderator), colloquies (formal discussions without papers), breakfast roundtables (informal discussions) and posters. UAA Conference policy limits participants to one presentation/session role per annual meeting. Do not submit multiple proposals. However, participants can be co-authors on multiple papers. Proposal submissions are accepted only on-line at the UAA website. You do not have to be a member of UAA to submit or participate in the conference. There are no fees for proposal submissions. However, if your proposal is accepted, you must register and pay registration fees associated with your membership category (e.g., member or nonmember or student)
Proposal Decision Date: Acceptance or rejection notices will be sent by November 15, 2010.
http://www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/call_for_participation.html
By professionaldreamers, on August 27th, 2010
Segnaliamo un interessante articolo di Fabrizio Lorusso apparso sul sito di Carmilla – letteratura, immaginario e cultura di opposizione. Lorusso propone una deriva nel quartiere di Bovisa, con documentazione fotografica.
Back In Town. Bovisa City Milano
http://www.carmillaonline.com/archives/2010/08/003580.html
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Ne approfittiamo per ricordare che del quartiere Bovisa e delle sue trasformazioni si è occupata approfondidamente anche l’urbanista Francesca Cognetti:
Bovisa in una goccia
di Francesca Cognetti
polipress, Milano, 2007
Il tessuto minuto del quartiere Bovisa e le grandi aree industriali che hanno segnato il suo passato si sono modificati in questi anni, caratterizzando questa parte del territorio come una porzione periferica ma fortemente attrattiva, legatasi sempre più saldamente ai temi della ricerca, della formazione e della creatività , senza comprometterne totalmente la dimensione storica locale.
La ricerca intende interrogarsi sul trasferimento di questo “modello spontaneo” all’interno di una politica in cui la valorizzazione di un ampio campo di risorse economiche, sociali e territoriali, può costituire elemento di innesco di positivi processi di sviluppo futuro.
‘Bovisa in una goccia’ perché è un quartiere cangiante, che si può guardare molto da vicino; ‘Bovisa in una goccia’ perché è un quartiere che dovrà trovare uno spazio nel progetto di trasformazione dell’area della goccia.
http://www.polipresseditore.polimi.it/e/catalogo.html&MODE=RECORD&ID=26
By professionaldreamers, on August 26th, 2010
De tous les écrivains du XVIIIe siècle, Voltaire est certainement celui qui a pris le plus de plaisir à convier la raison au voyage. À tel point qu’il donne parfois l’apparence de déraisonner : voyages cosmiques, voyages surnaturels, voyages au pays de nulle part, voyages dans le passé comme dans l’avenir. On y rencontre pêle-mêle Descartes, Locke, des Hurons, Leibniz, des Chinois, Pascal, ou les habitants de Sirius…
Dans cette polyphonie de voyages et au gré des dialogues inattendus qui la mettent à l’épreuve, la philosophie perd souvent en gravité. Mais la raison militante de Voltaire en rit encore.
Silvia MATTEI est docteur en philosophie de l’Université de Bologne et de l’Université Paris X – Nanterre.
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Préface de Baldine Saint Girons
Postface de Éric Desmons
24 euros, 258 pages, ISBN : 978-2-296-12256-7
Collection ouverture philosophique
Web : http://www.editions-harmattan.fr
By professionaldreamers, on August 26th, 2010
The 10th international SIEF congress
Lisbon, 17th to the 21st April 2011
The ways in which people construct their views, opinions, values and practices are constantly being re-negotiated and re-interpreted in various creative forms. The 10th SIEF International congress intends to elucidate and develop perspectives on this topic by focusing on the making of places, and invites colleagues and other scholars to present new perspectives on how people’s lives, memories, emotions and values interact with places and localities. The conference will be structured around three themes: Shaping Lives; Creativity and Emotions; and Ecology and Ethics. In each of the themes, case studies as well as inquiries into theory are welcome. The conference aims to encourage in particular boundary-crossing explorations of ontological, epistemological and ethical issues that arise from a greater emphasis on a sensitive and even sensuous approach to knowledge and understanding.
The question of how people make the places they inhabit remains wide open. We invite proposals that deal with the role of cultural practices in the creation of locality: how a space turns into a particular place; how people relate to, construct, and are constructed by, the places they live in; and what the practices are that shape those places. Other questions to be posed include: What new approaches for the study of the emotional links between people and the places they inhabit are being developed? What theoretical tools can be used by ethnologists to understand a sense of belonging? What is the role of expressive culture linked to daily life in the shaping of the places? How do we combine ecological and ethical issues with ethnographic data, especially in cases where there seems to be a clash between what people do with their places and general ecological and ethic concerns?
The variety of places that could be explored in this process include, among many others: work and home places, places for vacation, places for the dead, places to pray, places to create, places to destroy and to be destroyed, places to memorialize, places to arrive and to leave, as well as places that disappear and reappear, inside places, and non-places. Notions of multi-belonging, shared places, and generational differences all show how making places is a process that is not univocal, and people make places as much as places make people. New ways of making places – through the virtual space and internet – should also be taken into consideration.
Each day of the conference, a specific theme will be introduced by two invited keynote speakers, leading international scholars, and discussed further in a series of panel sessions, some of which will run in parallel. Workshops, intended to open to practice-based research, and poster sessions, will also take place. We invite colleagues to participate and propose panels directed at the general theme and the three daily sub themes.
The Call for papers is now open, closing 15 Octoberm 2010.
Website: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/
Submissions: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/callforpapers.html
By professionaldreamers, on August 25th, 2010
An International Symposium at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway, September 9-10, 2010.
The Urban Images symposium brings together an internationally renowned group of artists and scholars for a two-day program in order to discuss the field of artistic film and video related to architecture and urban space. The objective of the symposium is to expand theoretical concepts and artistic tools for understanding the inherent qualities of moving images and its relationship to urban culture. The program focuses on moving images’ influence on urban architecture, urban architecture’s relationship to avant-garde film, the city as a source for artistic film and video, and reflections on urban architecture in recent film and video art.
Considering the globally expanding urban developments and the increasingly fluid borders between research in architecture and moving images, this symposium presents important cross-disciplinary inquiries in the fields of architecture and visual practice. Bearing in mind Gilles Deleuze’s sensitivity to the ways in which contemporary culture is becoming fundamentally an audiovisual culture, the symposium will outline ontological and psychological relationships to moving images in the context of urban environment.
The following people will present their most recent research in this field: Parveen Adams, Giuliana Bruno, Bull.Miletic, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Henrik Gustafsson, Marit Paasche, and Judy Radul.
Moderator: Mattias Ekman
Registration fee: NOK 400 (NOK 200 students)
Registration deadline: Friday, September 3, 2010
Website: http://www.urbanimages.no/
By professionaldreamers, on August 24th, 2010
From September 10 to October 04 BLK River Festival – Vienna’s first festival for contemporary Street & Urban Art – will take place for the second time.
Among the invited artists are: AKAY – BLU – BASTARDILLA – BENJAMIN GAULON – BRAD DOWNEY – CARLIE AHERN – DEEP INC. – DTAGNO – ELLIS GALLAGHER – EVAN ROTH – JOHN FEKNER – KNOW HOPE – MATTHIAS WERNKE U. MISCHA LEINKAUF – OX – PRINCESS HIJAB – SAM 3
Focus 2010: Muralism & Experimental Visual Strategies. The thematic focus of BLK River Festival 2010 lies with the “classic” domain of Street & Urban Art – large scale mural painting, complemented by experimental strategies in visual communication & interventions in public space.
Street Art & Film. In correspondence with the first BLK River Festival in 2009, a central aspect of the activities in 2010 will repeatedly be dedicated to the cinematic documentation and representation of Street & Urban Art, Graffiti Culture and artistic interventions in public space.This includes a week of film-screenings at a time-honoured Viennese Kino, as well as the production of work-documentations and art films of this year’s festival projects.
About. The Blk River Festival is one of the top international festivals devoted to street and urban art. Held ounce a year in Vienna, Austria, the festival has become an international institution, challenging the concept of street & urban art by combining a selection of the world’s leading artists and local voices with an unsurpassed program of art, site-specific projects, installations, and special events along the Danube Canal and throughout the city of Vienna. Mid-September, artists, critics, curators, collectors and art-enthusiasts make Vienna their destination during The Blk River Art Festival. The festival has showcased artists such as State of Sabotage, Graffiti Research Lab, Evan Roth, Deep, Inc., Christian Eisenberger, Tobias Liengruber, Chris Sergue, BLU and more.
Website: http://blkriver.at/
By professionaldreamers, on August 24th, 2010
NECE- Networking European Citizenship Education
Cities and Urban Spaces: Chances for Cultural and Citizenship Education
29 September – 1 October 2010, Trieste (Italy)
Location: The Stazione Marittima Congress Centre
Molo Bersaglieri 3, I-34124 Trieste
Developments within cities and in urban spaces provide a variety of starting points for new ways of cultural and citizenship education which are being discovered only slowly. Artistic and cultural ways of action and interventions may inform and activate the public, new participative ways of urban development may mobilise the citizens’ political and creative potential and support the voices of civil society. Which opportunities and tasks for cultural and citizenship education do result from these new forms and ways of action? May they lead to a reconsideration of previous assumptions and interventions in cultural and citizenship education?
This year’s NECE conference in Trieste can be understood as a laboratory, think tank and project market for different disciplines, methodologies (“expert cultures”) and practitioners, bringing together the variety of “urban” discourses and practices in the cities of Europe in order to look for new approaches to co-operation and projects.
Within the framework of this European conference, a market of ideas and projects (Project Market) will be launched. Display boards will be available to show posters or tack other information on your project. This tool also offers space for the presentation of good practice projects by audiovisual methods or installations. Please apply at nece-trieste@lab-concepts.de before 6 September. Space is limited.
There is no participation fee! Since the number of conference participants is limited, we ask you to register before 12 September 2010 at:
www.lab-concepts.de/anmeldung/nece-triest
The organisers will not cover accommodation and travel costs!
Information on accommodation and directions for Trieste, you may find at the NECE website: www.nece.eu
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Download the programme in pdf
By professionaldreamers, on August 17th, 2010
The Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 17-21, 2011. The theme of the 2011 Congress is “Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy.” Increasingly in these troubling political times qualitative researchers are called upon to make their work relevant. They are encouraged to pursue social justice agendas, to be human rights advocates, to do work that honors the core values of human dignity, and freedom from fear and violence. Many oppose any political agenda, calling for non-activist qualitative research, let the chips fall where they will. They are reluctant to put their faith in any project that seeks to transform the nature of human social life. They advocate non-partisan inquiry. They call for objectivity. They question partisanship, and have reservations about any activist role of research in relation to policymaking or practice.
The 2011 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to debate these issues, to foreground the politics of advocacy, pro and con, to form coalitions, to engage in debate on how qualitative research can be used to advance the causes of social justice, while addressing racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare.
Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1 2010. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2010.
http://www.icqi.org/
http://www.icqi.org/participation.html
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