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Birmingham City University would like to invite you to attend ‘Birmingham Cityscapes’ taking place in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday 18th June 2011. Engaging with current issues facing urban research in Birmingham, the West Midlands, and beyond, the Birmingham Cityscapes conference is a forum for academics, scholars, practitioners, community leaders and local residents to discuss urban research in the city, with a special focus on inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches. Exploring urban research from a number of angles, the conference aims to facilitate the development of new research networks, providing an opportunity for theoretical and applied knowledge transfer across the public, private, voluntary, and academic sectors. There will be 14 speakers split across two parallel sessions with keynote speeches from Paul Slatter, Birmingham Chamberlain Forum and Dr Mike Beazley, The University of Birmingham. The range of papers promises to generate interesting discussion across a number of different disciplines and sectors. Topics include, Graffiti in the Urban Landscape, Literary Birmingham, Urban Guerilla Gardening, Urban Violence – Birmingham and Beyond, Comedy Performance Media, The Growth of Online Shopping vs. Concrete Shopping, Trans-culturalism in the city, Urban Art and Urban Photography, and Representations of Gangs in the Media. Programme and registration details are available at www.bcu.ac.uk/cityscapes. All bookings for the conference will be taken through the e-registration page available at: http://www.exprofesso.co.uk/conf_WEBHOME.asp and payment can be made via Debit/Credit card, Bank Transfer or Invoice. _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk