UGRG CONFERENCE
5–6 November 2009
Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University
GLOBAL CITIES NOW?
PROGRAMME
Thursday 5th November
12.30 – 1.45: Registration
2.00 – 3.00: Session 1. Keynote Speaker:
Peter Taylor: ‘Extraordinary Cities’
3.00 – 3.30: Tea/Coffee Break
3.30 – 5.00: Session 2. Urban Networks.
1. David Bassens, Ben Derudder & Frank Witlox ‘Emerging nodes on ‘alternative’ financial circuits: the case of Islamic financial services’
2. Christian Matthiessen ‘World cities of knowledge: changing research networks and hierarchies. An analysis based on bibliometric indicators’
3. Emmanouil Tranos & Andy Gillespie ‘The urban geography of the Internet backbone networks in Europe’
4. Björn Surborg ‘Calling for vertical world city research’
5.15 – 6.00: Session 3. Keynote Speaker:
Ian Gordon: Title to be confirmed.
7.45 Conference Dinner
Venue: To be decided.
Friday 6th November
9.10 – 11.00: Session 4. Cities, Sites, Investments.
1. Nuri Yavan ‘Multinational corporations in the emerging global cities: the case of Ankara, Turkey’
2. Oleg Golubchikov ‘World-city-entrepreneurialism: new geometries of spatial governance and post-socialist St Petersburg’
3. Sabine Dörry ‘Global commercial real estate brokers and market transparency’
4. Fatih Eren ‘Global interactions in Istanbul’s retail market’
5. Allan Watson ‘The world according to iTunes: creative project ecologies and the global urban networks of digital music production’
11.00 – 11.30: Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.15: Session 5. Keynote Speaker:
Andrew Leyshon: ‘A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007–2008 financial crisis’
12.15 – 1.00: Session 6. Global Labour Circuits.
1. Jonathan Beaverstock ‘The world city’s ‘transnational elite’: expatriates, executives and entrepreneurs’
2. James Sidaway & Robina Mohammad ‘Gulf city spaces: migrant lives in a context of express urbanization’
1.00 – 2.00: Lunch*
* Postgraduate Posters are presented at lunch from 1.15pm onwards. Prize Judges: Marcus Doel and David B. Clarke.
2.00 – 3.30: Session 7. Global Urbanisms.
1. Ola Söderström ‘Constitutive mobilities: how translocal circulations shape ordinary cities’
2. Christoph Haferburg ‘Event driven urban development in South Africa: strategic interventions for the 2010 World Cup’
3. Laurence Cot ‘Global movements of urban planning knowledge and policy: the World Wildlife Fund’s low carbon cities’
4. Andrew Harris ‘Concrete geographies: assembling global Mumbai’
3.30 – 4.00: Tea/Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.00: Plenary Session. Keynote Speaker:
Wendy Larner: ‘Globalising cities and gendered intermediaries: the New Zealand designer fashion industry’
Monday 12 October 2009
Tuesday 8 September 2009
CFP: GLOBAL CITIES NOW?
Global Cities Now? Current Perspectives in 'Global Urban Studies'
Urban Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) Annual Conference, Thursday 5th - Friday 6th November 2009, Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University, UK.
This year’s UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchers working on, and contributing to debates about, the broad theme of globalization and the city. We are seeking contributions from across the range of research on cities in globalization in order to reflect critical discussions, and bring together the wide variety of work being undertaken – from, for example, the impact of the credit crisis on financial centres, to critical questioning of the concept of ‘the global city’.
The confirmed Keynote Speakers are:
Professor Peter Taylor (Loughborough)
Professor Andrew Leyshon (Nottingham)
Professor Wendy Larner (Bristol)
Professor Ian Gordon (LSE)
Themes for contributions might include (but are in no way restricted to):
- Global urban hierarchies; global urban networks; inter-city relations; transnational urbanism- Cities and the global financial crisis
- 'Deglobalizing' cities: (1) the retreat of globalization - ‘Deglobalizing’ cities: (2) questioning the global-city concept- Global metropolitan cultures
- Globalizing cities; ‘Cities of the South’
- Provincialising the global city; ‘ordinary cities’
- Alternative forms of knowledge produced in global cities
- Global city status as a political project; entrepreneurial cities; cities in competition
- Work in global cities; migration and global cities
- Inequality and global cities
Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations, shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that engage with globalization and cities - in research, methods or practice. Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their careers.
A Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates to present their work in a supportive environment and an award will be made for the best poster.
The cost of attending the event is: £50 waged; £25 unwaged/students.
If you would like to contribute a PAPER or POSTER, contact Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk or Margo Huxley at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk.
Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is 30th September 2009.Deadline for Registration is 9th October 2009.
Registration Form pdf
Registration Form word
Further Information about the Conference Location
Accommodation in Swansea
Swansea University Maps
Urban Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) Annual Conference, Thursday 5th - Friday 6th November 2009, Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University, UK.
This year’s UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchers working on, and contributing to debates about, the broad theme of globalization and the city. We are seeking contributions from across the range of research on cities in globalization in order to reflect critical discussions, and bring together the wide variety of work being undertaken – from, for example, the impact of the credit crisis on financial centres, to critical questioning of the concept of ‘the global city’.
The confirmed Keynote Speakers are:
Professor Peter Taylor (Loughborough)
Professor Andrew Leyshon (Nottingham)
Professor Wendy Larner (Bristol)
Professor Ian Gordon (LSE)
Themes for contributions might include (but are in no way restricted to):
- Global urban hierarchies; global urban networks; inter-city relations; transnational urbanism- Cities and the global financial crisis
- 'Deglobalizing' cities: (1) the retreat of globalization - ‘Deglobalizing’ cities: (2) questioning the global-city concept- Global metropolitan cultures
- Globalizing cities; ‘Cities of the South’
- Provincialising the global city; ‘ordinary cities’
- Alternative forms of knowledge produced in global cities
- Global city status as a political project; entrepreneurial cities; cities in competition
- Work in global cities; migration and global cities
- Inequality and global cities
Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations, shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that engage with globalization and cities - in research, methods or practice. Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their careers.
A Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates to present their work in a supportive environment and an award will be made for the best poster.
The cost of attending the event is: £50 waged; £25 unwaged/students.
If you would like to contribute a PAPER or POSTER, contact Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk or Margo Huxley at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk.
Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is 30th September 2009.Deadline for Registration is 9th October 2009.
Registration Form pdf
Registration Form word
Further Information about the Conference Location
Accommodation in Swansea
Swansea University Maps
Friday 29 May 2009
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