Dear Second World Urbanity Network, We will hold a planning meeting at the upcoming ASEEES conference in Washington, DC, for the Second World Urbanity Primary Source Reader. This project is in its early stages and I solicit your ideas for a … Continue reading
Call for applications The Science and Technology Studies (STS) Center at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia is announcing a call for participation in Digital Traces I: Meta-Morphologies of St. Petersburg summer school that will combine lectures by participating faculty … Continue reading
See the program for this upcoming conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, here and follow the twitter feeds @airportculture and @citiesatSAS. See also the Cities project at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In the … Continue reading
School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London 10 November 2015 9.15am-6pm. Followed by prosecco and canapés. How can scholars working in the framework of East European studies engage with a world of people, objects, ideas and practices … Continue reading
A LONG, HAPPY LIFE. BUILDING AND THINKING THE SOVIET CITY: 1956 TO NOW October 30–31, 2015 West Gallery Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Admission free Prior registration required Сonference is focusing on Soviet Modernist architecture and urban planning. Participants include historians of … Continue reading
September 3 – 5, 2015 University of Toronto Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place | Room 108N Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Sponsored by the Canadian Social Sciences and … Continue reading
In recent years, scholars have demonstrated the critical role that the Gulag played in building socialism under Stalin, the exercise of power and ideology in this totalitarian regime, and ordinary people’s interactions with the Stalinist state. While much of the Gulag’s … Continue reading
A presentation of the catalogue “Unbuilt. Visions for a New Society 1986 – 1994” will be held tomorrow, May 22nd at 6PM at the Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying … Continue reading
The controversies and legacy of the last three decades of the Soviet Union prior to perestroika have not rendered a simple overarching theory. The Tallinn Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies will bring together leading scholars and PhD students who are … Continue reading
We write to inform you about “Mapping Visaginas: An International Summer School on Sources of Urbanity in Post-Industrial Cities” that we are organising in Visaginas, the satellite town of a former nuclear power plant in north-eastern Lithuania, from 20 Sept – … Continue reading
