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Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers

"Four years after the first meeting, the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers ... aims to share recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social sciences, to discuss current theoretical and methodological issues and to promote interdisciplinary and international networking"

"The Conference is co-organized by Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, CIES-IUL), Centre for Studies in Sociology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CesNova, FCSH-UNL) and Institute of Sociology ­ University of Porto (ISFLUP). The organising committee is composed by Gonçalo Gonçalves, Graça Índias Cordeiro, Inês Pereira, João Pedro S. Nunes, Lígia Ferro, Patrícia Pereira and Rita Cachado."

Presentations - Extended abstracts (maximum 500 words) should be submitted on the conference website until May 15. A short biographical note should also be included. Abstracts and papers can be written in Portuguese, English, Castilian and French. Authors should indicate in which language they intend to present the communication and in which track they intend to present.

Workshops - A detailed description (maximum 1000 words) should be submitted on the conference website until May 15. Workshops can be organised by an individual person or by a previously established team. A short biographical note of participants should also be submitted.

Conference is 11-14 October 2011

Tracks:
T01 ­ City in movement: Participation, activism and identity
T02 ­ City and Culture in Action: Politics, Practices and Cultural Identities
T03 ­ Mobility and urban flows: from transnational movements to virtual flows
T04 - Making the city work: agency in a changing world
T05 ­ (Re)producing urban fabric
T06 ­ Building and living the urban space: conflict, inequality and coexistence in the enlarged city
T07 ­ Space as relation: cities and their multiple territories
T08 - From collaborative research to public knowledge

http://conferencias.cies.iscte.pt/index.php/icyurb/sicyurb

Call for papers - Networked Revolts

Online journal Re-public invites contributions for its upcoming special issue titled “Networked revolts”. The continuing uprisings spreading across North Africa and the Middle East have been inherently associated with the increasing entanglement of social media, or digital networks in general, with everyday life. The multiple uses of technologies –cell phones, Facebook, twitter, the Internet– by local participants and by global supporters and observers and the counter-measures of blocking access and shutting down communication channels by the toppled or still surviving governments have gained global attention and have already ignited a series of related debates. Are the social media causes or symptoms of the Arab revolts? How can we determine their degree of influence in the revolts?

The special issue will attempt to move beyond these debates and approach the Arab revolts by making no ontological distinction between the digital and the real. The primary aim is to address questions on the forms, the organisational structures of the revolts and new political possibilities that they have opened up though the prism of the digital networks that the revolts produced, or challenged, or transformed, or hacked.

Submissions may address some of the following themes in relation to the revolts:

* production of digital networks
* radical uses of corporate social media (facebook, twitter)
* bypassing government control of digital networks
* horizontal forms of digital network organisation

Essays should be approximately 1,500 – 1,800 words.

Please send your contributions in electronic format to:

e-mail: editors@re-public.gr

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2011

More information at http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=4193

Harvard University Center for the Environment

May 7, 2011

8:00am - 4:00pm 22nd Sustainable Business Network Conference
UMass Boston Ryan Lounge, 3rd Floor McCormack Hall, 100 William T Morrissey, Boston, MA
"Building a Local, Green & Fair Economy.” Engage with inspiring pioneers and learn about breakthrough programs and practices that will help us grow our businesses and organizations as we together build strong local economies that are green and fair.
http://www.sbnboston.org/sbn15/

May 10, 2011

6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Booksigning
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
“The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature, and Exploration." Michael Canfield, lecturer in biology at Harvard, discusses what makes these notes and journals so important, the secrets they reveal, and how they can help us cultivate skills as a bird watcher, citizen scientist, or adventurer.
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php


May 12, 2011

3:30pm China Project Seminar
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
"Carbon Markets in China: Experience and Prospects.” Prof. Wang Yao, Visiting Scholar, China Project, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard; Associate Professor, Research Institute of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics
http://www.chinaproject.harvard.edu/

7:30pm Forum and Book Signing: The Renewable Revolution
First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church Street, Harvard Square Cambridge, MA
Dr. Sajed Kamal, long-time BASEA member and board member, will discuss his most recent book: The Renewable Revolution: How We Can Fight Climate Change, Prevent Energy Wars, Revitalize the Economy and Transition to a Sustainable Future.
http://www.basea.org/

May 13, 2011

7:30pm "Climate Change: Is Green Consumption a Solution?"
First Church (corner of Mass. Ave. & Church St.) Cambridge, MA
Talk and Q/A with Heather Rogers, author of Green Gone Wrong.
http://cceag.org/node/13
Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448

May 17, 2011

6:00pm - 8:30pm Smarter Living Expo
Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway Cambridge, MA
A unique and fascinating discussion among Swiss and US building experts to address the challenges of sustainable buildings.RSVP requested.
http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1075391-9PneY8RRIR


7:00pm - 9:00pm "Witnesses of Climate Change"
The Laboratory at Harvard University, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge MA
Eyewitness accounts of how changing climate and extreme weather events are already impacting people and agriculture, from Kenya and Argentina to the U.S. Midwest.
http://cceag.org/node/13
Contact Name: John Pitkin 617 388 4448

May 18, 2011

1:15pm Webcast: Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Trading
Online
Professor Sampford outlines a number of arguments for the superiority of carbon taxes over carbon trading schemes and outlines a proposal for a carbon added tax.
http://carbonwebcast.eventbrite.com/


May 23, 2011

12:30pm Environmental Health Colloquium
Building 1, Room 1302 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
“Human health impacts of anthropogenic changes to Earth’s natural systems: Why destroying Nature may be bad for us." Dr. Samuel Myers, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Fellowships

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards approximately 50 fully funded fellowships each year. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment, who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. Applicants must have received their doctorate or appropriate terminal degree by December 2010 in the area of the proposed project.

The stipend amount is $65,000. Fellows receive office space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University. During the fellowship year, which extends from early September 2012 through May 31, 2013, residence in the Boston area is required as is participation in the Institute community. Fellows are expected to present their work-in-progress and to attend other fellows' events.

Applications must be submitted by October 3, 2011

For more information, visit our Web site at www.radcliffe.edu

Radcliffe Application Office
Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
ph: 617-496-1324
fax: 617-495-8136
fellowships@radcliffe.edu

The Graduate Student Workshop in Anthropology
and the Free the Hikers Campaign
invite you to view a screening of the documentary:

"Free Shane and Josh: An Urgent Plea for Compassion"

Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue

Refreshments will be provided.

Josh Fattal, one of the imprisoned hikers, is the brother of one our graduate students, Alex Fattal.

For more information, please visit:

FreeTheHikers.Org or FreeOurFriends.EU