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.

Documentation: Summer School Post-Carbon Futures

19-26 September 2021 –– The Post-Carbon Futures Summer School took place at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and addressed German as well as international PhD and MA students from Anthropology, Sociology, Human Geography, Political Science, and other disciplines.

Call for Applications: Online Course Culture and Geographies of Energy Transition

7th June-17th June 2021 –– Summer University Course “Cultures and Geographies of Energy Transition”

Republishment: Back to the Postindustrial Future

May 2020 –– Felix Ringel’s book “Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest-Shrinking City” will be republished as paperback.

Call for Applications: Summer School Post-Nuclear Urbanism

16-29 August 2021 –– Knowledge Infrastructure in a 'Post-Nuclear' Town.

Call for Papers: EWIS Workshop

Deadline: 13 January 2020 –– Taking the politics of infrastructures as a starting point to examine the construction of material and virtual infrastructures as ‘sites’ of geopolitical contestations.

Call for Applications: Summer School Post-Nuclear Urbanism

22-31 July 2019 –– It will be fifth Summer School organised by the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism in the former "nuclear" town of Visaginas.