Activities
The CityIndustries Research Network organizes conferences, workshops, book presentations, field trips, and other events on network-related topics. Do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you are interested in joining our activities!

Activities revolve around the topics of (post-) industrialization and urbanization transformation processes, urban materialities, social practicies, mechanisms of knowledge production, symbolic meanings and affective atmospheres.

Research Project: Port Infrastructures, International Politics, And Everyday Life in The Horn of Africa

This projects examines transregional relationships between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Golf in the context of port infrastructures and transport corridors. It aims to build and strengthen long-lasting academic relationships between Europe, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.
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Workshop: Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space

Upcoming talk by Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge, Geography) at Hs 1b Lecture Hall (Habelschwerdter Allee 45 / Rostlaube), FU Berlin on May 20, 2022 at 6 pm.
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Call for Applications: Critical Urbanism Summer Workshop "Spatialities of Digital Twinning"

29 June-8 July 2022 –– European Humanities University in Vilnius (Lithuania)
Critical urbanism summer workshop "Spatialities of Digital Twinning". Deadline: 2 May 2022.
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Call for Applications: Critical Urbanism Summer Workshop "Spatialities of Digital Twinning"

29 June-8 July 2022 –– European Humanities University in Vilnius (Lithuania)
Critical urbanism summer workshop "Spatialities of Digital Twinning". Deadline: 2 May 2022.
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Research Project: Intermodal, ethnographic and museum-based research on urban economies, port work and logistics at Schuppenküche im Hafenmuseum

Schuppenküche im Hafenmuseum (“shed kitchen”) is a co-created social practice, a venue for encounters and research platform located in the midst of the port of Hamburg.
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Call for Papers: International Conference: Futures in the History of Deindustrialisation, Bologna, October 13-15, 2022

If you are interested, please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biographical note. Please send your proposal to: francesca.sanna10@gmail.com
The deadline for abstract is April 4, 2022. The deadline for full papers (in English,
approximately 5000 words) is September 15, 2022.
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