Six doctoral studentships
starting September 2008, are on offer as part of an ESRC Large Grant: Conflict in Cities and the Contested State. Deadline for applications is 15 January 2008...[MORE]

ESRC award 5 year grant
The UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded a five year grant for a new project to expand Conflict in Cities' research...[MORE]

RIBA Award for Research
On behalf of Conflict in Cities, Dr. Wendy Pullan has been awarded the RIBA President's Award for Research 2006: Outstanding University-led Research...[MORE]

Workshop 3
'Problems of Evidence in Divided Societies and Divided Cities'
29th - 31st March, 2007 at CRASSH, Cambridge...[MORE]

Workshop 2
'Reassessing Conflict in Cities: Planning and Resilience'
18th - 20th September, 2006 at CRASSH, Cambridge...[MORE]

Workshop 1
8th-10th January, 2004 at CRASSH, Cambridge...[MORE]

May 24th
Wendy Pullan is presenting a paper entitled ‘Urban Encounters and their Legacy in the Development of Jerusalem’s New City’...[MORE]

May 21st
Madeleine Leonard presented her paper ‘Touring Disputed Places. The Role of Tourism’ to the multidisciplinary workshop 'Cyprus and Divided Societies' that took place at the Queen’s University Belfast.

May 14th - 15th
Max Gwiazda attended a conference at Kings College London, entitled 'Palestine, Britain and Empire c.1841-1948'. The conference was co-organised by King's College London, The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, The Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

May 11th
Madeleine Leonard presented a plenary paper ‘A Little Bit of History and a Lot of Opinion: Biased Authenticity in Belfast and Nicosia’ to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.

May 10th
Milena Komarova presented a paper ‘Living separately or Living Apart? Shared Space in Belfast and the Limits of A Shared Future’ to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.

May 10th
Wendy Pullan gave a talk on ‘Images and Artefacts of Boundedness and Mobility in Contested Jerusalem’ as a part of one-day interdisciplinary conference 'Art, Visual Culture and the Israeli Occupation'. The conference took place at Manchester Metropolitan University.

May 10th
Liam O’Dowd presented a paper ‘Belfast in transition: from ‘City of the Troubles’ to ‘Post-Conflict Consumerist City’ to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland, Galway.

May 7th
Liam O’Dowd presented a paper entitled ‘Belfast beyond the Troubles: The future of ethno-national division in the consumerist city’ to the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Seminar, at Queen’s University Belfast.

May 1st
Milena Komarova attended a seminar at Queen’s University in Belfast organised by the Conflict Transformation Network. The seminar was attended by academics, policy makers and local community representatives who shared their experience in the development of a conceptual framework for, and their participation in, an integrated proactive partnership approach to conflict transformation in Belfast.

April 30th
Milena Komarova attended the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council Annual Policy Conference in Belfast - ‘10 Years after the Agreement – Reconciliation Posponed?’ The conference included workshops on creating and maintaining shared public and residential spaces in Belfast, the role of the voluntary and community sector, the media and arts in peace-building, rights and equality, and policing and justice in a transforming society.

April 16th
Madeleine Leonard gave a talk entitled ‘A Little Bit of History and a Lot of Opinion: Biased Authenticity in Belfast and Nicosia’ as a part of the QUB School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work seminar series.

April 9th
Liam O’Dowd led a discussion on Conflict in Cities at seminar organised by the Contested Cities-Urban Universities Group at Queen’s University.  It was attended by representatives of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Belfast City Council, local Belfast community Groups and other academics researching Belfast.

April 4th
James Anderson gave an invited talk: ‘Territoriality and Democracy: from ethno-national conflict to democratic trespass’to a Workshop on 'Democracy with(out) nations? Old and new foundations for political communities' ...[MORE]

April 2nd
James Anderson presented the paper ‘Empire, national state and city: Linking scales, territorialities and uneven development’ (co- authored with Liam O’Dowd) ...[MORE]

March 13th
Dr. Niall O'Dochartaigh (NUI Galway) gave a seminar talk ...[MORE]

March 18th-20th
The School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE), Queen's University, Belfast hosted the annual Planning Research Conference 2008 ...[MORE]

February 12th
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture on 'Security and the role of urban space in contested Jerusalem' at Oxford University Strategic Studies Group...[MORE]

February 12th
Seminar: 'Shared Space', organised by Professor Frank Gaffikin, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University...[MORE]

January 29th
Liam O'Dowd and James Anderson took part in 'Developing Shared Space in Belfast'...[MORE]

December 4th, 2007
Liam O'Dowd and James Anderson gave a paper at the 'Sharing Belfast Seminar Series'...[MORE]