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/
Saturday 28 February 2009
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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