Dear listserve members,
I am looking for a workshop co-director with whom I would like to
collaborate and propose a workshop to the 13th Mediterranean Research
Meeting to take place in Florence from 21-24 March 2012. My tentative
title for the workshop is "Shantytown Chic? Informal Urbanism / Urban
Poverty as Cultural Commodity" and I would like to highlight how
informal urbanism (as the material urban form urban poverty takes in
metropolises of the periphery) is increasingly becoming chic in its
popular cultural representations. I would like to focus on Istanbul (on
which I work) and one other city from around the Mediterranean.
According to the eligibility criteria of the Mediterranean Research
Meeting, the workshop co-director should be based in the Middle East,
North Africa, or South-Eastern Europe and have a different national
background. Mediterranean Research Meeting covers travel and
accommodation expenses of workshop directors. The deadline for proposing
workshops is 1 March 2011. Please contact me off-list
([log in to unmask]) if you work on a similar topic in another
Mediterranean city and if you're interested in collaborating.
Best,
Derya Oezkan
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Dr. Derya Özkan
Institut für Volkskunde / Europäische Ethnologie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ludwigstrasse 25
D-80539 München
GERMANY
Office: Room E08
Phone: +49 (0) 89 2180 6980
Fax: +49 (0) 89 2180 3507
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.volkskunde.uni-muenchen.de/personen/mitarbeiter/ozkan/index.html
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