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Events
You will find below, details of EURA annual conferences and other EURA sponsored events. In addition, you will find details of other conferences and events in the urban studies field organised by our members.
If you are an institutional member of EURA, and would like details of conferences, seminars, workshops and other relevant events displayed here, please contact the Secretariat.
Future events
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21 - 23 September 2008 |
| Conference title: | Nordic Urban and Housing Research Seminar (NSBB): Towards sustainability in urban transformation, governance cultures and housing policies | |
| Location: | Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland | |
| Summary: |
The NSBB network (Nordisk samarbeidsgruppe for by og boligforskning)
was established in 1997. Its main activity is to hold annual Nordic
seminars in urban and housing research, each Nordic country having a
turn as a host. With the theme “Urban Transformation, Governance
Cultures and Housing Policies”, the seminar will tackle contemporary
challenges to urban and housing research especially in the Nordic
countries. The effort is to bring together research on
socio-economic and physico-structural aspects of urban and regional
transformation with research on changing urban governance cultures –
drawing further implications to housing policy and planning.
The seminar is arranged by YTK - Centre for Urban and Regional Studies/Helsinki University of Technology Call for papers: |
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| Contact: | Mervi Ilmonen, Researcher mervi.ilmonen@tkk.fi | |
| Website: | http://www.tkk.fi/Units/Separate/YTK/research/NSBB/index.html | |
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Date: |
EURA Conference |
9 - 11 October 2008 |
| Conference title: | Learning Cities in a Knowledge-based Global Society (opens pdf) | |
| Location: | Milan, Italy | |
| Summary: | European cities
are engaged in difficult and challenging process of social,
economical, institutional and territorial change.
Contemporary cities can be considered as learning places under
different points of view: - as central nodes of a knowledge based economy: where concentration and exchange of information and innovation generated by people and firms produce new forms of economy, welfare and richness, but also new forms of poverty and exclusion; - as social laboratories, places which expose continuously their citizens to the effects of social transformation: laboratories in which the notion of citizenship is questioned and people have to learn to deal with change and the multiplication of differences generated by a mobile, multicultural society; - as settings for institutional and political innovation: where major transformations compel institutions to face with new emerging problems of contemporary society and to develop new learning skills and experience, new forms of governance, leadership, democracy, policies and politics. The conference will focus its attention on the exploration of these major challenges and will foster a lively exchange and debate among researchers in the field of urban studies, particularly pointing at interactions among forms of knowledge and forms of urban governance. |
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| Contact: | euraconference2008@polimi.it | |
| Website: | http://eura2008.polimi.it | |
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11 - 15 October 2008 |
| Conference title: | ESF-LiU Conference The right to the city: New challenges, new issues (opens pdf) | |
| Location: | Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden | |
| Summary: |
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 6 JUNE 2008 As it has been largely documented, modern states are facing political rescaling processes in which the roles and functions of the different levels of government are evolving. Thus city-regions are becoming central economic and political territories in which a new division of labour is occurring between the states and the local authorities. This tendency has been particularly analysed by the economic literature but also by geography, sociology and political science. At the same time, there is a large literature on the general tendency towards the pluralization of urban decision systems in different institutional, cultural, political and economic contexts. To say it briefly, these processes (i.e. political rescaling and participative democracy at local level) generate a new “right to the city”: the capacity to influence the agendas of urban public institutions by using “appropriate” demands based on the formulation of rights recognized as legitimate by urban institutions. The on-going process of the constitution of an “urban citizenship” involves a set of social demands which are, by definition, contradictory in that sense that the “right to the city” must be linked to the social groups and classes using it in order to organize themselves, to generate collective identity and collective action. The work program of the Conference addresses a number of empirical subjects, all vectors of a “right to the city”. Its objective is to compare the effects of these dynamics on the content of urban policies and on the transformation of citizenship regimes. |
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| Contact: | ablondeel@esf.org | |
| Website: | www.esf.org/conferences/08264 | |
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4 - 8 November 2008 |
| Conference title: | Arts, Culture and Public Sphere: Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives | |
| Location: | Venice, Italy | |
| Summary: |
Call for Papers (opens pdf) Deadline for submission of abstracts
28 April 2008 The conference aims to investigate the role of arts and culture in the social, economic and built environmental dimensions of contemporary societies. The conference also represents the 5th ESA Sociology of the Arts Research Network mid-term conference and the 2nd ESA Sociology of Culture Research Network mid-term conference, and it will be the first opportunity to have three European networks - the two ESA-Research Networks and the network 'Economics and Planning of Arts and Culture' meeting around a common theme in Venice from 4 to 8 November 2008. |
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| Contact: | info@artculturevenice2008.org | |
| Website: | http://www.artculturevenice2008.org | |
| Date: | Joint EURA/UAA Conference |
4 - 6 June 2009 |
| Conference title: | City futures in a globalising world (opens pdf) | |
| Summary: | EURA and the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) will hold their second joint conference on City Futures in Madrid. We extend an invitation to colleagues from Europe, North America and from across the world to join us in a major forward looking conference examining the future of cities. | |
| Location: | Madrid, Spain | |
| Contact: | cityfutures09@gmail.com | |
| Website: | http://www.uam.es/geografia/cityfutures09 | |
| Date: | 3rd Bi-annual EURA Conference |
2010 |
| This international conference will be organised by the EURA institutional member, Darmstadt Technical University | ||
| Location: | Darmstadt, Germany | |
| Contact: | Details to follow | |
Past events and conference reports
EURA has held a number of international workshops and conferences. Below are details of past events with links to further information.