The conference welcomes recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social sciences, to discuss current theoretical and methodological issues and to promote interdisciplinary and international networking. It is intended that the meeting should be boosted by young researchers who work in urban studies and develop research in the cities - especially those who are studying in post-graduate programs but also those carrying out technical and intervention activities.
The conference is organised in eight tracks:
T01 City in movement: Participation, activism and identity
T02 City and Culture in Action: Politics, Practices and Cultural Identities
T03 Mobility and urban flows: from transnational movements to virtual flows
T04 Making the city work: agency in a changing world
T05 (Re)producing urban fabric
T06 Building and living the urban space: conflict, inequality and coexistence in the enlarged city
T07 Space as relation: cities and their multiple territories
T08 From collaborative research to public knowledge
Important Dates:
May 15 2011
Deadline for abstract submission
June 15 2011
Notification of selected abstracts
July 1 2011
Early Bird registration and payment open
September 15 2011
Deadline for paper submission
October 11-14 2011
Conference
SicyUrb Programme Council
Alain Bourdin, Institut Français d’Urbanisme, Paris VIII ; Alain Milon, Université Paris X, Nanterre ; Álvaro Domingues, Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade do Porto; António Firmino da Costa, CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); Carles Feixa, Universitat Lleida; Carlos Ferreira, Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Chris Hamnett, King’s College, London; Emílio Duhau, UNAM, Cidade do México; Fabienne Wateau, Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, CNRS ; Fernando Luís Machado, CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); Fraya Frehse, Universidade de São Paulo; Frédéric Vidal, CRIA-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); Gilberto Velho, Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Heitor Frúgoli Jr., Universidade de São Paulo; Joan Pujadas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona); João Cabral, Faculdade Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; João Ferrão, Instituto Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa; João Teixeira Lopes, Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto; Jorge Malheiros, IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa; José Guilherme Cantor Magnani, Universidade de São Paulo; José Ignacio Homobono Martínez, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao; Isabel Raposo, Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Luís Baptista, CESNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Luís Fernandes, Faculdade Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto; Luisa Veloso, CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); Marina Antunes, ISSSL, Universidade Lusíada; Michel Agier, CEA, École Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Nuno Luís Madureira, CEHC, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL); Paulo Peixoto, CES, Universidade de Coimbra; Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, New York; Rita Raposo, SOCIUS/ ISEG, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Tim Sieber, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Vírgilio Borges Pereira, Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto.
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Organization: Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
Co-organization: Centre for Studies in Sociology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CesNova, FCSH-UNL); Institute of Sociology – University of Porto (ISFLUP).