Please find attached a copy of the Call for Papers for the 9th EARCAG conference in Daegu, South Korea, taking place between 10 and 13 December 2018. The first EARCAG event was in Daegu in January 1999, and the December 2018 gathering in Daegu is going to be a 20th anniversary return to the place […]
I am very much looking forward to this ‘authors-meet-critics’ session at this year’s RGS-IBG annual conference, featuring my co-authored book Planetary Gentrification. The session is to be convened and chaired by Professor Ronan Paddision (University of Glasglow), and sees the contributions from three critics, Professor David Ley (The University of British Columbia), Dr Andy Merrifield […]
Following is a session that I am organising with Laam Hae (York University, Canada) as part of the forthcoming EARCAG conference taking place in Hong Kong in December 2016. The 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography Radicalism in Theory and Practice | 6th – 8th December, 2016 | Hong Kong […]
With apologies for any cross-posting, Call for Abstracts RC21 International Conference on The Ideal City: Between Myth and Reality 27-29 August 2015 | Urbino, Italy (Re-)making Cities: the politics of scale in mega-projects in Asia and beyond STREAM F – Urban renewal The globalisation of Asian economies has accompanied the emergence of urban real […]
I had a chance to be at the first conference on Mega-events and the City, and now the organisers are to host its second conference, taking place shortly before the 2014 FIFA World Cup. This should be an exciting conference for critical interrogation of mega-events. OUTLINE: “The Second International Conference on Mega-Events and the City […]
First Call for Papers RGS-IBG 2011 Conference: The Geographical Imagination 31st August – 2nd September 2011 (London) Gentrification in the Global South: Dilapidation, Obsolescence and Land Exploitation Organisers: Dr Hyun Bang Shin (Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics) h.b.shin@lse.ac.uk Dr Ernesto López-Morales (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile) elopez@uchilefau.cl Sponsors: Urban […]