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