*Please help circulate to any urban-related doctoral students who may be
interested. Sorry for cross-posting. Deadline for applications is 15
January.
*Stadtkolloquium*-- Interdisciplinary Urban PhD Research Group
4th Annual Workshop 2013 – 25 & 26th March in London
Call for papers
Stadtkolloquium, in conjunction with UCL’s Urban Laboratory, is pleased to
announce its annual 2-day work shop for PhD research students in
urban-related disciplines. The workshop will provide an open, informal and
intimate space to collaborate and discuss progress amongst peers with
regard to topical, theoretical, practical and methodological concerns. We
therefore welcome contributions from students at all stages of the
dissertation process.
*Stadtkolloquium* aims to create a supportive environment for urban
researchers who to develop their work and meet PhD students from other
departments and universities. The workshop is unique in that all
participants agree to both present their work and support others in doing
so in small group sessions. Organizers hope to generate lively round-table
discussions on diverse urban questions across various academic disciplines
including Geography, Architecture, History, Anthropology, Literature,
Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Fine Arts, Environmental Studies,
Gender Studies, Health Sciences, Planning, Engineering and beyond.
The four thematic tracks for the 2013 workshop are:
A. Re-thinking urban economies
Explaining the growth and development of cities has been called 'one of
the great challenges for social science' (Storper, 2011, p.33). But what
is specifically 'urban' about the range of problems facing economies
today? The increasing recognition of the partiality of urban development
and growth policies (e.g. global cities; creative cities), the decoupling
of economic growth from social and environmental development, the ongoing
financial crisis and the emergence of austerity urbanism, as well as
decreasing confidence in mainstream economics more generally, suggests
that the scope for new ways of theorising, measuring and intervening in
urban economies is significant. Contributions are welcomed from PhD
students who are exploring some of the diverse ways in which we might
re-think urban economies.
Key Words: urban economies; re-thinking economy; global cities; creative
cities; ordinary cities; development; well-being; financial crisis;
austerity urbanism
Chairs: Alvaro Sanchez Jimenez, Louis Moreno, Myfanwy Taylor
B. Post-colonial approaches to the city
An increasing amount of scholarship (Robinson 2006, Roy 2011) has emerged
as a critique of the ways in which cities in the global South have been
studied. This session aims to discuss cities in ways that respond to this
post-colonial questioning of urban theory. How can concepts that emerged
in the South, such as informality, be used in cities of the global North?
How can empirical studies of cities beyond the West inform urban theory in
general? How do concepts such as neo-liberalism or gentrification, change
when examined in a non-Western context? The session is interested in
theoretical approaches as well as methods of thinking 'comparatively'
through both multi- and single case studies.
Key Words: Post-colonial theory, comparative urbanism, sub-altern theory
Chairs: Hanna Hilbrandt, Susana Neves Alves, Tauri Tuvikene
C. Managing the complex city
This session will explore pragmatic responses to the problem of managing
cities and urban spaces understood to be complex. Such matters arise in
the fields of urban design and planning, infrastructure, municipal
governance and policy making where the unexpected, contingent, emergent
and the nonquantifiable variously problematise efforts to control, order
or regulate urban space and process. The session seeks to facilitate
discussion of both empirical case studies and theoretical resources for
dealing with such issues in urban scholarship.
Key words: complexity theory, contingency, emergence, urban
governance,co-ordination
Chairs: Ine Steenmans, Regan Koch
D. Urban Assemblages
A dynamic worldview of flux and flow, uncertainty and complexity is being
recognised more and more across all disciplines (Whatmore, 2006; De Landa
2006; Lash 2006; Deleuze and Guattari, 1987). But can these post-human,
relational and flat ontologies cast a doubt at the appropriateness of the
city as the unit of analysis for urban research? This track looks at the
application of these approaches to specific cases of empirical urban
research through attending to the rich array of human-nonhuman,
material-immaterial, and mobile-immobile entanglements. It is specifically
concerned with the empirical application of theoretical approaches like
assemblages, networks, meshworks and constellations to urban research and
the methodological and empirical challenges they bring about.
Keywords: Complexity, post-human, relational, materiality, assemblages,
networks.
Chairs: Hayley Peacock, Pooya Ghoddousi
The workshop will take place on 25 & 26 March 2013 at University College
London. On the first day, each participant will be given 20 minutes to
present their work in small groups of 8 people, followed by 25 minutes of
feedback and discussion. The second day will be dedicated to a plenary
discussion, two keynote lectures and small group workshops based on
accepted participant’s suggestions.
Call for papers - If you are interested in discussing your work, please
send us an abstract (no more than 250 words) of the project you would like
to present. Past participants have presented work ranging from upgrade
documents, PhD outlines, sample dissertations chapters and journal papers
in progress. Please note that while the intimate nature of the workshop
provides a uniquely engaging experience, it also significantly limits the
number of proposals we are able to accept. Competition for spaces in years
past has been very tight.
In submitting an abstract, please include the following:
- A title and 250 word abstract
- Your name, university, department, and year of study
- Abstracts should be emailed to the respective track email
Track A: [log in to unmask]
Track B: [log in to unmask]
Track C: [log in to unmask]
Track D: [log in to unmask]
· For general enquiries please email [log in to unmask]
· Deadline for proposals: 15th of January 2013.
· A small conference fee will apply (15 GBP).
· For more information on *Stadtkolloquium* activities, previous workshops
and feedback comments, please visit our website: www.stadtkolloquium.co.uk
and find us on Facebook
· Contact - [log in to unmask]; UCL Urban Laboratory,
www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab
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Regan Koch
UCL Department of Geography
www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the department/people/research-students/regan-koch
www.urban-geography.org.uk
www.stadtkolloquium.co.uk
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Regan Koch
UCL Department of Geography
www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the department/people/research-students/regan-koch
www.urban-geography.org.uk
www.stadtkolloquium.co.uk
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