Politics and Community-based Research: Perspectives from YeovilleStudio, Johannesburg
2022 - (Extraordinary) International Geographical Congress
'Time for Geographers'
Paris, France, 18 - 22 July 2022
Congress website: https://www.ugiparis2022.org/
Universidade de
Lisboa
Instituto de
Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
Ano letivo 2021-2022
Unidade curricular (opção)
PLANEAMENTO URBANO EM ÁFRICA, 2021-2022 >>
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The IGU Commission
on the Geography of Governance (IGU-CGoG) received the "2020 IGU
Commission Excellence Award"
More
information here: https://sites.google.com/site/igugeogov/igu-award-2021
The IGU-CGoG has
a particular interest on issues of Local and Urban Governance in Africa, namely
on Urban Planning.
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If you wish to become Corresponding Member of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance, please fill the form here: https://forms.gle/aVnvSzTZyTGhNgZo8
Online book conversation with Garth Myers, author of "Rethinking Urbanism - lessons from post colonialism and the global south", tomorrow Friday, June 18th 3:00-4:30pm CET with Martin Oteng-Ababio, Jennifer Robinson, Jonathan Silver and Armelle Choplin.
Zoom Link: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/65130437995
BERTRAND M. (2021). Bamako. De la ville à l’agglomération, Marseille, IRD Éditions, 341 p.
INVITATION
Wits University Press & Transformation Journal - Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
JOIN US
for the launch of the late Bill Freund's Autobiography - An historian’s passage to Africa
Scholars in the field of history and economics, Colin Bundy and Lumkile Mondi,
will talk together with gender scholar Robert Morrell, who was also a colleague and friend of Freund's, about the late historian's contribution to African socio-economic history
DATE: Thursday 10 June 2021
@ 18:00 South African time
JOIN THE ZOOM EVENT HERE
ZOOM LINK: https://payg.rocketseed.net/servlet/link/18140/118917/16202334/416061
Organizing Commissions
Commission on Political Geography
Commission on Cultural Approaches to Geography
Commission on the History of Geography
Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change
Commission on Toponymy
Commission on the Geography of Governance
Scientific organization
Elena Dell'Agnese, Università di Milano-Bicocca
Fabio Pollice, Università del Salento
Scientific committee
Hamzah Bin Muzaini, National University of Singapore
Louis Dupont, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Je-Hun Ryu, Korea National University of Education
Romeo Hanxhari, University of Tirana
Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam
Claudio Minca, Macquarie
Dieter Müller, Umeå universitet
Alec Murphy, University of Oregon
Velvet Nelson, Sam Houston State University
Carlos Nunes Silva, University of Lisbon
Cosimo Palagiano, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Università di Milano-Bicocca
Anna Trono, Università del Salento
Local organization: Federica Epifani, Patrizia Miggiano, Sara Nocco, Antonella Rinella, Marco Sponziello
Web: http://conference.unisalento.it/ocs/index.php/heritagegeographies/heritagegeographies
Info: heritagegeographies@unisalento.it
Themes for Sessions and Papers
1. Heritage governance
2. Heritage and Urban Planning
3. Heritage-telling
4. Patrimonialization of cultural heritage
5. Heritage and ICTs
6. Memories from the territories and educational strategies
7. Heritage geopolitics
8. Heritage and knowledge economy
9. Heritage for consumption: tourists and tourism
10. Heritage and toponymy
11. Heritages, Mediterranean cultures and Southern thinking
12. Dark Heritage (from below)
Conference website >>>
Conference e-mail: heritagegeographies@unisalento.it
Sessions description >>>
Call for abstracts >>>
Call for Sessions on 'Local and Urban Governance' (Sessions 12 to 15) >>>
IGU Commission Geography of Governance - contact
For additional information regarding the 4 sessions promoted by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance, contact: igu.geogov@gmail.com
Book Launch - Decolonising the Human - Africa Day 2021 - 25 May 2021
Steyn, Melissa & Mpofu, William (eds.) (2021). Decolonising the Human. Reflections from Africa on difference and oppression . Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 264 pp. (DOI 10.18772/22021036512) https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46908
Download full text (pdf): https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46908/9781776146789_WEB.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Book
launch (Wits University, South Africa: https://zoom.us/j/95356607154
DATE: 25 May 2021
TIME: 11:00 - 12:00 SAST
URBE . Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana
Special issue – Informality in peripheral urban areas
E-mail: urbe@pucpr.br