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Call for Papers - Conflict in Cities International Conference
Urban Conflicts: Ethno-National Divisions, States and Cities
19-21 May 2011, Queen's University Belfast
This multi-disciplinary conference aims to further our understandings of the nature and dynamics of ethno-national conflicts as manifested in divided cities. Conversely, it questions how cities and everyday urban life are used - and abused - in the containment of these wider national conflicts, and it explores their potential for achieving the self-sustaining moderation, constructive channelling or resolution of conflict. The conference aims to enhance dialogue between academics and non-academic policy practitioners and community activists. It will include plenary and parallel sessions, key-note speakers, round table discussions and a guided tour of Belfast’s ‘peacewalls’ and ‘shared spaces’.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 31 October 2010. For further details, please download the Call for Papers here:
Call for papers- Urban Conflicts: Ethno-national Divisions, States and Cities
Wendy Pullan to participate in a panel discussion at the Crisis States Research Centre
Wendy Pullan will participate in a panel discussion on ‘Cities and Fragile States’ at the State-building in Conditions of Fragility conference hosted by the Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics, 13-15 September 2010.
Dr. Meir Margalit publishes new book: Seizing control of space in East Jerusalem Conflict in Cities Primary Research Partner Dr. Meir Margalit has published a new book Seizing control of space in East Jerusalem--published by Sifei Aliat Gag. The book details the settlement practices in East Jerusalem and the political motives behind the Israeli seizure of space.
Craig Larkin to present at the Fratricide and Fraternite conference
Craig Larkin will present a paper entitled: 'Confronting Lebanon's 'War of Others': Trans-generational forgiveness and peace-building amongst Lebanese youth' at the FRATRICIDE & FRATERNITÉ: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity conference organised by Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study and University of London, 28-29 October
Craig Larkin to participate in a panel discussion at the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies
Craig Larkin will participate in a panel discussion on 'Lebanon: Memory and War', Arts and Humanities Week, King's College London, Centre for the Study of Divided Societies on October 25th 2010.
Saskia Sassen: Key-note Speaker at Conflict in Cities Conference
Professor Saskia Sassen (Department of Sociology, London School of Economics) will be a key-note speaker at the Conflict in Cities International Conference- Urban Conflicts: Ethno-National Divisions, States and Cities. See the call for papers above.
Linda Rootamm's poster wins first place at ESRC conference
Conflict in Cities PhD student Linda Rootamm presented a poster about her research at the ESRC Research Methods Conference in Oxford (5-8th July). Forty-seven posters were submitted to the poster competition. Linda Rootamm's poster took first place. She has been invited to submit a paper to the Academy of Social Sciences journal called 21st-Century Society.
Download her award winning poster here: Belonging in the New Berlin: The Experiences of Young East Berliners in the Reunified Berlin
New Working Paper
Audra Mitchell and Liam Kelly have submitted a paper to the Conflict in Cities Working Paper Series. Please download it here:
"Walking" with de Certeau in North Belfast: Agency and Resistance in a Conflicted City
New PhD Student
Annie Kane-Horrigan, a new international PhD student, will join the Project team in September 2010. She is funded by Queen’s University, Belfast and will study visible and invisible borders in post-conflict Belfast.
Haim Yacobi to begin Marie Curie Fellowship with Wendy Pullan
Dr Haim Yacobi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. As an architect and planner who specialized in geography, his academic work focuses on the urban as a political, social and cultural entity. In regards to urban space, his primary interests are centred on issues of social justice, the politics of identity, migration, globalization and planning. He has recently published The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community (Routledge, London). In 1999 he co-founded "Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights" (NGO). As a Marie Curie Fellow at Cambridge University (beginning in July 2010) his work will focus on the Geopolitics of Neighbouring, a comparative study of the effect of geopolitical conditions on neighbourhoods, planning and the everyday life of minority groups in contested cities. Dr Yacobi is an associate of the Conflict in Cities project.
Jerusalem: Web Review
The June Web Review is now available to download. From time to time, the Conflict in Cities project posts a review of articles that it believes will enhance the understanding of the situation in Jerusalem. Please see our recent web-reviews on our Jerusalem page where you can also find background information on Jerusalem.
Linda Rootamm presents at the Social Agency 2010 Conference
Conflict in Cities PhD student Linda Rootamm will present a paper entitled: New Berlin through the eyes of Berliners
at the Social Agency: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of the 21st Century Humanist Sociology Conference 20-22 October in Wroclaw, Poland.
Linda's paper will be part of the session entitled: 'Social agency and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dr Hazem Abu Orf to begin four months as a Research Associate with the Cambridge Conflict in Cities group
Dr Abu Orf is a Lecturer within the Faculty of Applied Engineering and Urban
Planning at the University of Palestine in Gaza and is currently (May-August 2010) a visiting
academic at Clare College Cambridge, with a scholarship funded by the
Scholarship Rescue Fund based in New York. Dr Abu Orf will be working closely with the Cambridge Conflict in Cities team during his four month stay in Cambridge. During his academic visit in the UK, Dr Abu Orf is looking at the
relationship between Space and Urban Informality using Lefebvre's concept.
The research questions he will address are: What drives spaces to be
violent? Does urban informality matter and to what extent?
Conflict in Cities International Workshop in Jerusalem: "Jerusalem and other Contested Cities"
On 10-12 January 2010, Conflict in Cities held an international Workshop on "Jerusalem and other Contested Cities". A full day of tours of Jerusalem on 10 January was followed by a two-day Project Workshop held at the Notre Dame Centre in Jerusalem.
Workshop '09
'Everyday Life",
September 16-18, 2009 at University of Exeter.
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Workshop '08
'The City and the Contested State',
September 25-26, 2008 at the School of Sociology, Queen's University Belfast
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Workshop 3
'Problems of Evidence in Divided Societies and Divided Cities',
March 29-31, 2007 at CRASSH, Cambridge
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Workshop 2
'Reassessing Conflict in Cities: Planning & Resilience
September 18-20, 2006 at CRASSH, Cambridge
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Workshop 1
'Conflict in Cities'
January 8-10, 2004 at CRASSH, Cambridge
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Conflict in Cities present at the International Visual Sociology Association Conference Giulia Carabelli and Lefkos Kyriacou will present their recent work in a session entitled: The contribution of visual techniques in the analysis of ethno-territorial conflicts at the Thinking, doing and publishing visual research: the state of the field? IVSA conference in Bologna (20-22 July)
New Primary Research Partner
Dr Katy Hayward has stepped in as a primary research partner to work on the Belfast-based module ‘From Conflict Management to Conflict Resolution’ Dr Hayward is a lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast. Her primary research interests lie in the arena of nationalism and conflict transformation on the island of Ireland and the influence of the European Union on these processes.
Craig Larkin presentsat the Kenyon Institute Craig Larkin presented a paper entitled: The Islamic movement and the Redemption of Jerusalem's Holy places at the Kenyon Institute, Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Jerusalem. 8 June.
Mick Dumper to participate in EU Security Studies workshop
Mick Dumper has been invited to contribute to a discussion on the Middle East policy of the EU at a workshop entitled "Between pessimism and optimism: EU Policy Options across scenarios" on 1 July 2010. His paper is entitled : "EU options for a "deposit" on Jerusalem". The workshop will be hosted by the EU Institute for Security Studies. Other participants include policy-makers, practitioners, and academics from Europe, the Middle East and US.
Conflict in Cities team members to present at the Ethno-Politics and Intervention in a Globalised World Conference
Mick Dumper, Craig Larkin, Britt Baillie, Kelsey Shanks and Karl O'Connor will present aspects of their work at the Ethno-Politics and Intervention in a Globalised World Conference (27th - 30th June 2010) hosted by the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS). The team will present the following papers: Mick Dumper: Securing sacred sites-The changing Israeli security regime over the Holy Places of Jerusalem; Craig Larkin: The Islamic Movement within Israel and the battle for Jerusalem; Britt Baillie: Stayees/Returnees and the making of the Vukovar heritagescape; Kelsey Shanks: Segregated Education As An Ethnic Defense Strategy – The Case Of The Turkmen Community Of Kirkuk and Karl O’Connor: Belfast revisited: Colourful policy making within a divided urban environment – Does power-sharing change the nature of public policy?
Conflict in Cities PhD student to participate in Conflicts and urban development workshop
Giulia Carabelli will take part in the MMCP- Training for Urban Planning Practitioners: Managing Conflicts and Urban Development in Multiethnic Communities Workshop held on June 20-26, 2010 in Budapest, as one of the LGI-funded participants. The event is organised by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute (OSI).
Liam O'Dowd to give Plenary Address at the Irish Social Sciences Platform
Liam O’Dowd is to give a Plenary Address to the Irish Social Sciences Platform, Summer School, on the theme of Participation, Praxis and Policy: Understanding and Contributing to Society and Economy. The event will be held in National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, NUI-Maynooth, on 24 June 2010.
Mick Dumper to present at PASSIA
On Tuesday June 8th, Mick Dumper will present a paper entitled: "The Holy Places of Jerusalem: Emerging Actors and New Challenges since 2000" at the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) in Jerusalem.
Growing Up in Divided Societies
The conference 'Growing Up in Divided Societies' will be held in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast, from June 10th to 11th. The conference aims to bring together scholars whose work focuses on the experiences of children who are growing up in ethnically and politically divided societies...[MORE]
Conflict in Cities team visit Balkan Cities
Conflict in Cities investigators -Wendy Pullan, James Anderson, Mick
Dumper, Liam O'Dowd - will be visiting Mostar and Sarajevo 17-23 May to
meet with colleagues and study these two cities joined by Giulia Carabelli who is doing her PhD on Mostar as part of the CinC project. Guilia's PhD is provisionally entitled: Re(ad)dressing Mostar: Architecture and/of the everyday life. James Anderson will also visit Mitrovica to attend the inaugural conference for The Forum for Cities in Transition, on 23 – 26 May. He will also visit Prishtina and Skopje where he will interview journalists, representatives of national and international NGOs, politicians and academics.
CinC researchers present at the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland Conference
CinC project members presented their work at the 37th Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland that was held in Queen’s University Belfast on May 7th – 9th, 2010. Madeleine Leonard presented a paper on ‘Us and Them’: teenagers’ constructions of national identity in Cyprus’. Liam O’Dowd and Milena Komarova presented on ‘Contending Narratives of Capital, Place and Identity in ‘Post-Conflict’ Belfast’.
Wendy Pullan presents at the Choreography of Sacred Spaces: State, Religion, and Conflict Resolution Workshop
Senior investigator Wendy Pullan will present a paper entitled: 'AT THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SACRED. THE REINVENTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN JERUSALEM'S AL-WAD STREET' at the Choreography of Sacred Spaces: State, Religion, and Conflict Resolution workshop organised by Columbia University Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) Istanbul, 6-7 May 2010
Giulia Carabelli presents at the Art in Divided Cities festival
Conflict in Cities PhD student Giulia Carabelli presented a paper on her PhD provisionally titled Re(ad)dressing Mostar
Architecture and/of the everyday life at the Art in Divided Cities festival.
The main aim of the Art in Divided Cities project is to create a multidisciplinary platform to foster a dialogue among practitioners and theoreticians working on the topic of public space in divided cities. The goal is to deconstructing the myth of stereotypical divisions, normally taken as the only representative of current situations.
The festival of Arts in Divided Cities was held in Mostar, April 14th-17th 2010. Giulia's paper addressed two main issues. Firstly, it expanded on the examination of the category of space, critically engaging with the work of Henry Lefebvre. Secondly, it presented the first results of Giulia's ongoing data collection.
Dr Abu Orf Presents at the CRASSH City Seminar
On Tuesday 4 May 17:15-19:00 Dr Hazem Abu Orf will give a paper entitled: "Urban Informality: Does it matter in Divided Cities?" as a part of the CRASSH City Seminar series. The paper will address: How informality, either as an economic sector or as unplanned infrastructure, dominates the research on 'Third World' cities. This talk moves beyond this dichotomy by unpacking a missing perspective to understanding the nature of informality by analysing the two community consensuses of the Nicosia case. This perspective rejects the notion of considering informality as a sector existing in isolation from the formal apparatus of planning. Rather, its notion supports the concept of the state of exception to regard informality as the 'objective of development' and adds some key factors that deem it necessary to mobilise in divided cities.
Dr McKnight presents at the BSA Conference Re-inventing Belfast? Alternative ways of re-imagining and experiencing the city’ Workshop "Jerusalem: The Cost of Failure" becomes Chatham House's most downloaded paper of March 2010 With over 7000 downloads, "Jerusalem: The Cost of Failure" has become Chatham House's most downloaded paper this month. An extract of the paper was published in 'The Independent' on 1st March. Read online here
Senior Investigators quoted in Financial Times article New staff members World Bank Blog features a submission on the Conflict in Cities project mit a note about the Conflict in Cities project to the World Bank's Conflict and Developement blog. This blog is hosted by the team working on the World Bank’s upcoming World Development Report 2011 'Conflict, Security, and Development'. This forum will debate practical suggestions on how to address conflict and fragility at the local, national, regional and global levels. The blog entry is available on-line at: http://blogs.worldbank.org/conflict/rethinking-conflict-in-cities
2010 Conflict in Cities Annual Report is now available to download Gwiazda to present at SCHOSA conference
Martina McKnight presented a paper at the BSA Conference (7 – 9 April 2010) in Glasgow. The paper entitled Self Directed Photography and Reflective Interviews – A Methodological Snapshot drew on research carried out by Lisa Smyth and Martina McKnight 2008/9 that explored the everyday life spatial practices of working class mothers in Belfast. The paper addressed the value of utilizing a visual and reflective approach in accessing orientations to places and identities, while highlighting the difficulties that participants encountered in capturing or recognizing ‘everyday life’.
A round table discussion, ‘Re-inventing Belfast? Alternative ways of re-imagining and experiencing the city’ was held in Belfast on March 23rd. The event was organized by the Belfast CinC team and focused on questions around how economic development and changes in the built environment in Belfast for the past decade have interacted with traditional divisions between communities in the city. Members of Belfast area partnerships, civil servants, community workers, academics and art forum representatives participated in the discussion. For further information:
Roundtable Programme
The Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and the Conflict in Cities Project held a research discussion entitled "Jerusalem: The Cost of Failure" on 24th February. Speakers: Prof Mick Dumper (University of Exeter) and Dr Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge). Discussants: Rami Nasrallah (IPCC), Dr Menachem Klein (Bar Ilan University) and Ray Dolphin (UN-OCHA, Jerualem). The discussion was chaired by Dr Claire Spencer (Chatham House). This meeting marked the launch of the new Chatham House Briefing Paper "Jerusalem: The Cost of Failure" authored by the speakers. The briefing paper is now available online here: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/835/.
Wendy Pullan and James Anderson have been quoted in an Financial Times special report entitled: Healing old wounds in cities of conflict by Simon Kuper. The article explores why some cities avoid ethnic conflict while others do not by comparing Paris, Amsterdam, Nicosia, Belfast and Jerusalem. The article is available on-line at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8aa172e6-38d4-11df-9998-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=05c2777c-38da-11df-9998-00144feabdc0.html
The Conflict in Cities Cambridge team is happy to announce that it has hired two new Research Associates: Yair Wallach who will be investigating shared spaces in Jerusalem and Britt Baillie who will be exploring Jerusalem's landscape with emphasis on its green spaces.
Nigel Roberts, a member of the Conflict in Cities Advisory Council asked Mick Dumper to sub
Find out what the Conflict and City team achieved in 2009 by reading our Annual Report.
2010 Annual Report
Maximilian Gwiazda will be presenting an overview of the Conflict in Cities project at the annual Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture (SCHOSA) held in Glasgow 22-23 April. The theme of this year's conference is 'Intercultural Interactions'. Gwiazda will present on a panel entitled 'Architecture in Areas of Conflict' on 22 April.
Conflict in Cities (Jeruslem team) has appointed two Research Assistants to be based in Jerusalem. Nadera Karkaby and Razan Makhlouf will be assisting Wendy Pullan and Mick Dumper in their field work and data collection. Nadera is a graduate of Westminster University and has worked with the CinC team previously. Razan, a graduate of the Olive Tree Programme at City University has a special interest in photography and media studies. The position is for 1 year.
Roundtable Discussion "Jerusalem: the Cost of Failure"
On October 21st, Mick Dumper and Wendy Pullan organised a Roundtable Discussion in Jerusalem focussing on an examination of the future of the city in the event of a failure to come to an agreement over the future of the city which is acceptable to both Israelis and Palestinians.
October 19th-21st, 2009
Mick Dumper presented a paper on the "Role of UNESCO in Jerusalem" at the Arab Thought Forum International Conference held in Ramallah on October 19-21st , 2009. The conference was held to mark the Jerusalem as the "2009 Arab Cultural Capital" and brought together Palestinian and international scholars researching on the heritage of the holy city.
September 25th-27th, 2009
Wendy Pullan gave a keynote lecture entitled "Spatial discontinuities in Jerusalem and other contested cities" at the Globalisation and the Transformation of Europe's Borders, NORFACE seminar held at Aalborg University, Denmark.
The ESRC are to publish a short piece on module B5: 'Public space in Belfast city centre' in their mass-circulation annual magazine 'Britain in 2010'. The article is entitled "Mothering in post-conflict Belfast' and is authored by Lisa Smyth and Martina McKnight.
Research Assistants (based in Jerusalem)
Conflict in Cities are seeking to appoint two Research Assistants to undertake research and to carry out fieldwork and assist in the running of workshops and seminars in Jerusalem. Both posts are part-time (18.5 hours per week) for two years and are available from 1 October 2009. Interviews will be held in Jerusalem on 25 June 2009. Please click on the links for information and application procedure for:
Research Assistant 1: undertaking research for Dr Wendy Pullan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
Research Assistant 2: undertaking research for Prof Mick Dumper, Department of Politics, University of Exeter
Conflict in Cities research visit to Jerusalem - June 2009
"No change in Jerusalem, yet": Prof Mick Dumper's impressions of the recent trip to Jerusalem. This article was published on comment is free...Guardian Online on 1 July 2009.
June 16th, 2009
At the Territories Revisited workshop, Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel, Wendy Pullan gave a paper on 'Some observations on the space of contested cities'.
June 12th, 2009
Members of the Belfast Conflict in Cities team (James Anderson, Milena Komarova and Liam O'Dowd) contributed to a colloquium entitled 'Transitional Justice and Public Space' organised by the transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster.
June 6th, 2009
Liam O'Dowd gave a keynote address entitled 'Promoting Civil Society: Bridging East-West Divisions in the EU Borderlands?' at a conference to celebrate the foundation of the University of Joensuu, Finland.
May 29th-31st, 2009
Craig Larkin presented his paper 'Between Silence and Scream: the Lebanese postmemory experience' at the Marginalisation and Mobilisation of Arab Youth Conference, held at American University of Beirut, Centre for Behavioral Research.
May 29th-30th, 2009
Wendy Pullan was invited to present 'Spatial discontinuities in contested Jerusalem' at Enclaving Identity: Remaking Borders in the Circum Mediterranean, a conference sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre at The European University, Florence.
May 21st-22nd, 2009
Wendy Pullan and Liam O'Dowd attended the final project colloquium of the ESRC funded project 'The urban environment: mirror and mediator of radicalisation?' at the University of Manchester. (Grant Number RES-181-25-0028).
May 9th-10th, 2009
At the annual conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, Milena Komarova presented the paper 'Structural transformation, regeneration and the shaing of Belfast: A case studies approach'. The paper is co-authored with Liam O'Dowd.
May 7th, 2009
Liam O'Dowd gave a paper entitled 'Civil Society and the EU's External Borders: A Conceptual Minefield' at the final Project Conference of the EU Framework 6 Project: EU Dimensions in Brussels.
May 6th-7th, 2009
In Brussels on an EU research project, James Anderson took the opportunity to meet with some academics working on the city (and other 'divided cities') in the fields of geography, history and sociolinguistics.
May 6th, 2009
Research Councils UK (RCUK) held 'Security in Cities', a one day workshop that was part of the Global Uncertainties Programme; it was chaired by Wendy Pullan and Mick Dumper was a participant. The venue was RIBA, London.
Research Visit to Nicosia (21st-28th March, 2009)
Wendy Pullan, Mick Dumper, James Anderson, Liam O’Dowd and Lefkos Kyriacou visited Nicosia (21st-28th March). This was the first of several planned research visits to divided cities. The visit included several interviews with planners, academics, journalists, politicians and civil society activists from both the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities.
Professor Oren Yiftachel and Belfast Project Workshop, February/March 2009
‘Conflict in Cities’ along with the School of Geography in Queens University Belfast hosted a visit by project partner Oren Yiftachel of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, under the School’s Visiting Professorship scheme.....[MORE]
January 27th, 2009
Lefkos Kyriacou participated in a discussion at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, on issues including map making, gathering visual information and graphical communication. The event was organised by Intermediate Unit 6 as part of the design studio's ongoing work on mapping.
December 18th, 2008
Wendy Pullan delivered a keynote address 'Can Resistance Play a Positive Urban Role?' at a symposium on 'Planning East Jerusalem', sponsored by Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights. The event was held in Jerusalem and included papers on planning the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber by Rassem Abeidat and Efrat Cohen-Bar.
Research Visit to Jerusalem (1st-14th December, 2008)
Craig Larkin has undertaken a research visit to Jerusalem (1-14th December). His fieldwork concentrated on the ‘Holy City/Holy Places’ J2 module, exploring relevant themes such as the ongoing politicisation of cultural heritage and re/desacralization of land; and the role and significance of Islamic groups working within Jerusalem....[MORE]
Meir Margalit elected to the Jerusalem City Council
Conflict in Cities project partner Meir Margalit has been elected to the Jerusalem City Council (Nov 2008). Meir, a founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) will represent the Meretz party.
Conflict in Cities to guest edit an issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly
Conflict in Cities has been invited to guest edit an upcoming issue of the Jerusalem quarterly. This journal, published by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), is uniquely dedicated to history and life of the city of Jerusalem, combining both historical research and contemporary analysis.
November 26th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture entitled, 'Resistance as an Urban Phenomenon in Palestinian Jerusalem' at the Cities and Fragile States Seminar, London School of Economics.
Talks by Salim Tamari - November 13th and 14th, 2008
Professor Salim Tamari gave a lecture on 13th November entitled '(Un)sacred Geography - Jerusalem as a Worldly City' and a seminar on 14th November, 'Diaries as a source of studying Urban History'...[MORE]
November 13th, 2008
Max Gwiazda is participating in the 'Building Futures Initiative: Visualisations of the 21st Century City' headed by the RIBA. He will give a presentation, at the School of the Built Environment - Oxford Brookes University, on the security challenges faced by modern cities using examples from Jerusalem.
November 10th, 2008
Salim Tamari participated in a lecture and discussion, at Exeter University, entitled 'The Collapse of the Two State Solution: What are the Alternatives?' The event was co-hosted by the Politics Department and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS) " Discussants were Ilan Pappé and Mick Dumper.
November 6th, 2008
Max Gwiazda presented a paper, entitled 'The Politicization of urban heritage Designs in Jerusalem's "City of David" Archaeological Park' to Heritage Research Group Seminars, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University.
November 4th, 2008
Wendy Pullan and Max Gwiazda took part in a round table discussion, entitled '"Contained Conflict":Rethinking terror and territory in Jerusalem' at the Post-Conflict, Post-Crisis Group, CRASSH, Cambridge University.
October 27th, 2008
Professor Salim Tamari gave a lecture, entitled 'WW1 and the Remaking of Arab-Turkish Identity after Galipoli' ...[MORE]
October 15th-16th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture entitled 'Can resistance play a positive urban role? The situation in Jerusalem/Al-Quds' to 'Cities: Understanding Socio-Cultural Transformations' conference in Istanbul.
June 27th, 2008
Max Gwiazda, Milena Komarova and Craig Larkin presented a joint session on aspects of ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State’ Project to the 'Culture of Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis Conference'...[MORE]
May 30th, 2008
Karen Lee Bar Sinai, from SAYA Architecture & Consultancy, a practice based in Jerusalem met with Wendy Pullan and the Cambridge team in the Architecture Department in Cambridge. The discussion centred on Karen Lee's urban design proposals for various scenarios for Jerusalem as a shared capital in a projected two-state solution, including security arrangments for a special regime around the Old City, as well as various forms of shared and divided public space in potential border zones of Jerusalem.
May 24th, 2008
Wendy Pullan presented a paper entitled ‘Urban Encounters and their Legacy in the Development of Jerusalem’s New City’ The symposium took place at King’s College Cambridge.
May 21st, 2008
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, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a talk entitled 'Frontier Urbanism in Contested Jerusalem' as part of the series of Martin Centre Lectures, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.
May 11th, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008
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 5th, 2008
Dr Meir Margalit, from the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, an NGO based in Jerusalem met with Wendy Pullan and the Cambridge team, in the Architecture Department in Cambridge. Discussions focused on Meir's research on the activities of far right settlers in the Old City and Historical Basin in Jerusalem. The underlying territorial strategies of ultra-nationalist groups in Jerusalem's inner city were addressed, particularly in relation to settlers' manipulation of tourist development in achieving hegemony over key parts of the city.
April 16th, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008
James Anderson presented the paper ‘Empire, national state and city: Linking scales, territorialities and uneven development’ (co- authored with Liam O’Dowd) ...[MORE]
February 12th, 2008
Wendy Pullan gave a lecture on 'Security and the role of urban space in contested Jerusalem' at Oxford University Strategic Studies Group ...[MORE]
Research Visit to Jerusalem
Mick Dumper has undertaken a research visit to Jerusalem (4th-8th February). Based on discussions with a wide range of Israelis and Palestinians, he returned depressed about the post-Annapolis summit momentum in the peace process. He detected very little prospect of a deal before the US elections ...[MORE]
Seven doctoral studentships
The ESRC and the collaborating Universities agreed to generously fund seven PhD studentships – 3 by the ESRC, 2 by Queen’s Belfast, 1 each by Exeter and Clare College, Cambridge. Interviews were held in Chatham House on 1st February, and 7 applicants were selected ...[MORE]
January 29th, 2008
Liam O'Dowd and James Anderson took part in 'Developing Shared Space in Belfast'...[MORE]
December 8th, 2007
Wendy Pullan gave a keynote lecture, 'Spatial Discontinuities in Contested Jerusalem' at the 'Power and Space' conference, University of Cambridge.
December 4th, 2007
Liam O'Dowd and James Anderson gave a paper at the 'Sharing Belfast Seminar Series'...[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]