CALL FOR PAPERS …

'Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos'
Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-25 October 2014
http://www.islanddynamics.org/islandcities.html

'Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos' is an international, interdisciplinary academic conference exploring the cultures, economies, and politics of island cities worldwide. The conference will consider how island status influences urban development and common attributes of island cities. It will also consider how islands and archipelagos can be used as conceptual tools for understanding urban development more broadly.

Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 2014 (http://www.islanddynamics.org/islandcities/cfp.html).

Plenary Speakers
- Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
- Jon Pierre (University of Gothenburg)
- Godfrey Baldacchino (University of Malta)
- Jonathan Pugh (Newcastle University)
- Christian Wichmann Matthiessen (University of Copenhagen)
- Brenda S.A. Yeoh (National University of Singapore)
- Ilan Kelman (University College London)

Collaborating Institutions
- Island Dynamics
- University of Portsmouth's Centre for Art, Architecture & Design
- Memorial University of Newfoundland's Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy
& Development
- University of the Balearic Islands' Department of Catalan Philology & General
Linguistics
- Lund University's Department of Human Geography
- Queen’s University Belfast's School of Geography, Archaeology and Paleoecology
- VerdensKulturCentret, Copenhagen
- Sharing Copenhagen.


Contact:-
Adam Grydehøj
Director of Island Dynamics

E-mail: [log in to unmask] / Web: www.islanddynamics.org
Tel.: +45 53401982 / Address: Lergravsvej 53, 3. sal, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

Take care,

Jon Pugh

Senior Academic Fellow in Territorial Governance

Room 2.24a (4th Floor Daysh Building)

Department of Geography

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology

Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne

Tyne and Wear

NE1 7RU

UK

Latest paper: Pugh J. Speaking Without Voice: Participatory Planning, Acknowledgment, and Latent Subjectivity in Barbados. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2013, 103(5), 1266-1281.

Latest book: Pugh J, ed. What is radical politics today?.Basingstoke: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.

"Jonathan Pugh gathers some of the most innovative and insightful voices from Britain and beyond to stage a series of debates on the central issues facing radical politics today. This collection is a model for the kinds of discussion we need to move forward." (Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire).

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