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
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Friday, 13 March 2009
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Monday, 9 March 2009
Saturday, 7 March 2009
New research: fifth Global Financial Centres Index (Corporation of London)
New research: fifth Global Financial Centres Index
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/media_centre/files2009/New+research+-+fifth+Global+Financial+Centres+Index.htm
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/media_centre/files2009/New+research+-+fifth+Global+Financial+Centres+Index.htm
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Tuesday's CUT Seminar
Centre for Urban Theory Seminar
Tuesday 4pm, 10 March
Location: ZOOLOGY MUSEUM (Ground Floor, Wallace Building)
Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”
ALL WELCOME
Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/Global Cities Now? UGRG Annual Conference (Royal Geographical Society) / CUT Event (Swansea University, November 2009), Call For Papers: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/
Tuesday 4pm, 10 March
Location: ZOOLOGY MUSEUM (Ground Floor, Wallace Building)
Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”
ALL WELCOME
Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/Global Cities Now? UGRG Annual Conference (Royal Geographical Society) / CUT Event (Swansea University, November 2009), Call For Papers: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Tuesday's CUT Seminar, March 3rd
Centre for Urban Theory Seminar
Tuesday 4pm 3 March
Location: ZOOLOGY MUSEUM (Ground Floor, Wallace Building)
David B Clarke & Marcus A. Doel
(Swansea University)
Uneventful cities: Chris Ware’s graphic spaces
ALL WELCOME
Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Seminar Canolfan Theori Trefol
Dydd Mawrth 4 o’r gloch 3 Mawrth
Lle: AMGUEDDFA SÖOLEG (Llawr Gwaelod, Adeilad Wallace)
David B Clarke & Marcus A. Doel
(Prifysgol Abertawe)
Uneventful cities: Chris Ware’s graphic spaces
Croeso i bawb
Dr Richard G. Smith
Prifysgol Abertawe
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Tuesday 4pm 3 March
Location: ZOOLOGY MUSEUM (Ground Floor, Wallace Building)
David B Clarke & Marcus A. Doel
(Swansea University)
Uneventful cities: Chris Ware’s graphic spaces
ALL WELCOME
Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Seminar Canolfan Theori Trefol
Dydd Mawrth 4 o’r gloch 3 Mawrth
Lle: AMGUEDDFA SÖOLEG (Llawr Gwaelod, Adeilad Wallace)
David B Clarke & Marcus A. Doel
(Prifysgol Abertawe)
Uneventful cities: Chris Ware’s graphic spaces
Croeso i bawb
Dr Richard G. Smith
Prifysgol Abertawe
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Friday, 27 February 2009
Walking the City: Exploring the Limits of Cartographic Reason in Organisation
RESEARCH SEMINAR
PRESENTATION:
Friday, 6th March 2009
DR D O’DOHERTY
(Manchester Business School, University of Manchester)
“Walking the City: Exploring the Limits of Cartographic Reason in Organisation”
2.00-3.00pm
Room 16, Haldane Building
(Tea & Coffee provided)
Please note: Time and Room
PRESENTATION:
Friday, 6th March 2009
DR D O’DOHERTY
(Manchester Business School, University of Manchester)
“Walking the City: Exploring the Limits of Cartographic Reason in Organisation”
2.00-3.00pm
Room 16, Haldane Building
(Tea & Coffee provided)
Please note: Time and Room
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
CFP: Global Cities Now? (UGRG Annual Conference, Swansea, November 2009)
Global Cities Now? Current Perspectives in ‘Global Urban Studies’
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.
Call for Contributions
Contributions of papers and postgraduate posters are invited. Abstracts due 12th September 2009.
This year’s UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchers working on, and contributing to debates about, the broad theme of globalisation and the city. Global urban studies has a range of distinct sub-literatures that focus on such matters as: the constitution of global cities; how cities relate to each other through globalization; how cities try to achieve global city status; how globalization affects different cities differently; global city theory; critiques of the global-city concept; migration and the global city; work in the global city; global cities as financial centres; cities of the Global South; global city-regions; social polarisation in global cities, to name just a few. We are seeking contributions from across the wide-range of research on cities in globalization in order to reflect critical discussions, and bring together, the wide variety of work being undertaken. We also welcome papers and posters that address the role/status of cities in the current global financial crisis. Themes for contributions might include (but are in no way restricted to):
> Global cities; World cities; Global city-regions
> Global urban hierarchies; Global urban networks; Inter-city relations; Transnational urbanism
> Financial centres; Cities and the global financial crisis
> Global city status as a political project; entrepreneurial cities; cities in competition
> Work in global cities; Migration and global cities
> 'Deglobalising' cities; the retreat of globalization; questioning the global-city concept
> Globalizing cities (including ‘Cities of the South’)
> Provincializing the global city; ‘ordinary cities’
> Inequality and global cities; Global metropolitan cultures
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. The 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 will be confirmed later in the year, but will be approximately: £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 12th September 2009.
Please note that the deadline for Registration is 2nd October 2009. Further details about the conference, and how to register, will appear over the next few months on the UGRG WEBSITE: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/
Richard G. Smith
SwanseaUniversity
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
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.
Call for Contributions
Contributions of papers and postgraduate posters are invited. Abstracts due 12th September 2009.
This year’s UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchers working on, and contributing to debates about, the broad theme of globalisation and the city. Global urban studies has a range of distinct sub-literatures that focus on such matters as: the constitution of global cities; how cities relate to each other through globalization; how cities try to achieve global city status; how globalization affects different cities differently; global city theory; critiques of the global-city concept; migration and the global city; work in the global city; global cities as financial centres; cities of the Global South; global city-regions; social polarisation in global cities, to name just a few. We are seeking contributions from across the wide-range of research on cities in globalization in order to reflect critical discussions, and bring together, the wide variety of work being undertaken. We also welcome papers and posters that address the role/status of cities in the current global financial crisis. Themes for contributions might include (but are in no way restricted to):
> Global cities; World cities; Global city-regions
> Global urban hierarchies; Global urban networks; Inter-city relations; Transnational urbanism
> Financial centres; Cities and the global financial crisis
> Global city status as a political project; entrepreneurial cities; cities in competition
> Work in global cities; Migration and global cities
> 'Deglobalising' cities; the retreat of globalization; questioning the global-city concept
> Globalizing cities (including ‘Cities of the South’)
> Provincializing the global city; ‘ordinary cities’
> Inequality and global cities; Global metropolitan cultures
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. The 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 will be confirmed later in the year, but will be approximately: £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 12th September 2009.
Please note that the deadline for Registration is 2nd October 2009. Further details about the conference, and how to register, will appear over the next few months on the UGRG WEBSITE: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/
Richard G. Smith
SwanseaUniversity
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Monday, 23 February 2009
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Vertical Cities
More4 are showing a series about skyscrapers this week called 'Vertical Cities' and tonight's episode is about the site of Ground Zero, including Freedom Tower. The programme is on More4 at 8.30pm and will also be available later on the web at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/vertical-city. I believe the programme on Friday evening is also about a Manhattan skyscraper, this time one on Park Avenue by Mies van der Rohe.
Monday, 16 February 2009
Friday, 13 February 2009
CUT Seminar -TUESDAY
Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) Seminar
Tuesday 4pm, Location: MUSEUM (Ground floor, Wallace Building)
February 17th
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
ALL WELCOME
Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Seminar Canolfan Theori Trefol
Dydd Mawrth 4 o’r gloch 17 Chwefror
Lle: AMGUEDDFA SÖOLEG (Llawr Gwaelod, Adeilad Wallace)
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
Croeso i bawb
Dr Richard G. Smith
Prifysgol Abertawe
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Tuesday 4pm, Location: MUSEUM (Ground floor, Wallace Building)
February 17th
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
ALL WELCOME
Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Seminar Canolfan Theori Trefol
Dydd Mawrth 4 o’r gloch 17 Chwefror
Lle: AMGUEDDFA SÖOLEG (Llawr Gwaelod, Adeilad Wallace)
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
Croeso i bawb
Dr Richard G. Smith
Prifysgol Abertawe
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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