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Read more at: The Question of Jerusalem: Palestinian Return Centre presents an event at the Houses of Parliament hosted and chaired by Mark Hendrick MP

The Question of Jerusalem: Palestinian Return Centre presents an event at the Houses of Parliament hosted and chaired by Mark Hendrick MP

12 April 2017

Since the annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli authorities have promoted the twofold goal of expanding the city’s Jewish population and reducing its Palestinian population. Various steps have been adopted to achieve this objective, including the isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, land...

Read more at: New publication by UCR's Gruia Badescu ‘Achieved without Ambiguity?': Memorializing Victimhood in Belgrade after the 1999 NATO Bombing’, Memories and Narratives of the 1999 NATO Bombing (special issue)

New publication by UCR's Gruia Badescu ‘Achieved without Ambiguity?': Memorializing Victimhood in Belgrade after the 1999 NATO Bombing’, Memories and Narratives of the 1999 NATO Bombing (special issue)

23 March 2017

Südosteuropa. Journal for Policy and Society, 64(4): 500-519. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/soeu.2016.64.issue-4/soeu-2016-0044/soeu-2016-0044.xml

Read more at: New publication by UCR's Gruia Badescu ‘(Post) colonial Encounters in the Post-Socialist City: Reshaping Urban Space in Sarajevo’ Post-socialist Cities (Special Issue)

New publication by UCR's Gruia Badescu ‘(Post) colonial Encounters in the Post-Socialist City: Reshaping Urban Space in Sarajevo’ Post-socialist Cities (Special Issue)

23 March 2017

The issue is entitled Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 98 (4): 321-329. For more details visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geob.12107/abstract

Read more at: New volume 'A Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000' by Leila Kamali in the Palgrave Studies and Cultural Heritage and Conflict Series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie.

New volume 'A Cultural Memory of Africa in African American and Black British Fiction, 1970-2000' by Leila Kamali in the Palgrave Studies and Cultural Heritage and Conflict Series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie.

22 March 2017

To find out more visit: http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137584854

Read more at: UCR’s Jessie Fyfe will be presenting a paper titled: ‘Legacies of witness testimony on physical and memorial landscapes in Croatia’ at Newnham College on Friday February 24th, Newnham Principal’s Lodge from 1:15-1:50

UCR’s Jessie Fyfe will be presenting a paper titled: ‘Legacies of witness testimony on physical and memorial landscapes in Croatia’ at Newnham College on Friday February 24th, Newnham Principal’s Lodge from 1:15-1:50

21 February 2017

For more information visit: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/event/pudding-seminar-jessie-fyfe-mcr-architecture/

Read more at: UCR’s Eve Avdoulos will be presenting a paper titled, ‘A Complicated Reality and an Uncertain Future: navigating processes of urban decline and regeneration in Detroit, MI’ at the 2017 Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies

UCR’s Eve Avdoulos will be presenting a paper titled, ‘A Complicated Reality and an Uncertain Future: navigating processes of urban decline and regeneration in Detroit, MI’ at the 2017 Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies

19 January 2017

The forum will take place at TU Dortmund and University of Duisburg-Essen on 27 and 28 January 2017.

Read more at: As part of the exhibit 'Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, UCR's Dr Irit Katz has written a text for MoMa's 'Insecurities' publication on Medium

As part of the exhibit 'Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, UCR's Dr Irit Katz has written a text for MoMa's 'Insecurities' publication on Medium

19 January 2017

Read the full text here: https://medium.com/insecurities/the-global-infrastructure-of-camps-8153fb61ea30#.z4c9qcxqy

Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate Dr Irit Katz, Dr Michael Ramage and Dr Rob Foster for winning at the 2016 RIBA President’s Awards for Research

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Irit Katz, Dr Michael Ramage and Dr Rob Foster for winning at the 2016 RIBA President’s Awards for Research

5 January 2017

The Royal Institute of British Architects announced four winners of the 2016 President's Awards for Research. This year's competition received 75 applications from 14 countries on five continents. One winner was selected for each of the four categories: Cities and Community; Design and Technical; History and Theory; and...

Read more at: UCR affiliated researcher Dr Irit Katz publishes a piece entitled 'Camp evolution and Israel's creation: Between ‘state of emergency’ and ‘emergence of state’' In Political Geography

UCR affiliated researcher Dr Irit Katz publishes a piece entitled 'Camp evolution and Israel's creation: Between ‘state of emergency’ and ‘emergence of state’' In Political Geography

7 November 2016

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Read more at: Festival of Ideas event: Spaces of Suspended Movements: Tuesday 18 October: 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Festival of Ideas event: Spaces of Suspended Movements: Tuesday 18 October: 5:30pm - 6:30pm

11 October 2016

St John's College Old Dvinity School, All Saints Passage, CB2 1TP

Read more at: UCR's Irit Katz co-convenes four panels on camps at the RGS-IBG International Conference on Wednesday 31st August 2016 . The panels are entitled: The Spaces In-Between: Investigating Camps and the Spatialities of Exception(part 1 and 2).

UCR's Irit Katz co-convenes four panels on camps at the RGS-IBG International Conference on Wednesday 31st August 2016 . The panels are entitled: The Spaces In-Between: Investigating Camps and the Spatialities of Exception(part 1 and 2).

31 August 2016

For more information visit: http://conference.rgs.org/AC2016/8 http://conference.rgs.org/AC2016/39 http://conference.rgs.org/AC2016/75 http://conference.rgs.org/AC2016/109

Read more at: Eve Avdoulos will be presenting a paper entitled 'The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis: Experimental Strategies for Rebuilding Detroit' at the 'Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life' conference in Krakow, Poland from 29 June - 1 July

Eve Avdoulos will be presenting a paper entitled 'The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis: Experimental Strategies for Rebuilding Detroit' at the 'Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life' conference in Krakow, Poland from 29 June - 1 July

4 July 2016

Read more at: DPU Dialogues in Development: Space, Politics and imperfect citizenship: a debate on migration policy and forms of life at the edge of Europe
DPU Dialogues in Development: Space, Politics and imperfect citizenship: a debate on migration policy and forms of life at the edge of Europe

DPU Dialogues in Development: Space, Politics and imperfect citizenship: a debate on migration policy and forms of life at the edge of Europe

26 May 2016

TUE 7 TH JUNE | 5:30 - 7:30 PM ROOM 101| DPU 34 TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, WC1H 9EZ With an increase in forced migration, territorial tensions have risen across Europe, altering political and spatial discourses. A fast evolving geography of unregulated and partially regulated camps has become a phenomenon grounded inside...

Read more at: UCR's Dr Britt Baillie has been made an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute

UCR's Dr Britt Baillie has been made an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wits City Institute

16 May 2016

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Read more at: Wendy Pullan presents a paper entitled ‘Jerusalem…in context’ at the International Meeting on the Question of Jerusalem, UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

Wendy Pullan presents a paper entitled ‘Jerusalem…in context’ at the International Meeting on the Question of Jerusalem, UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

10 May 2016

The presentation took place at the General Assembly Meeting of the United Nations, Jakarta on 14-15.12.15.

Read more at: Wendy Pullan presents a keynote entitled: ‘Architecture in transition: the view from education’, at the Building Education, Bucharest International Forum, 3.3.2016

Wendy Pullan presents a keynote entitled: ‘Architecture in transition: the view from education’, at the Building Education, Bucharest International Forum, 3.3.2016

10 May 2016

Read more at: New Volume by Felix Lang entitled: 'The Lebanese post-Civil War Novel: Memory Trauma and Capital' in the Plagrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict Series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie

New Volume by Felix Lang entitled: 'The Lebanese post-Civil War Novel: Memory Trauma and Capital' in the Plagrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict Series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie

10 May 2016

For more information visit: https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9781137559883

Read more at: Wendy Pullan presents a keynote entitled: ‘Changing conflicts, changing cities: The role of heritage and reconstruction’, at the Post-Trauma Reconstruction International Conference, ICOMOS, Paris 4.3.16

Wendy Pullan presents a keynote entitled: ‘Changing conflicts, changing cities: The role of heritage and reconstruction’, at the Post-Trauma Reconstruction International Conference, ICOMOS, Paris 4.3.16

10 May 2016

Read more at: Several UCR members participate in two-day conference on Places of Amnesia, organised by UCR's Gruia Badescu

Several UCR members participate in two-day conference on Places of Amnesia, organised by UCR's Gruia Badescu

10 May 2016

Find more details here: https://poaconference.wordpress.com/

Read more at: CFP Spaces of Displacement

CFP Spaces of Displacement

10 May 2016

The radical geopolitical changes of the modern world have generated large-scale population displacements that have significantly influenced the built environment. Wars, persecutions, climate change and market economies have pushed people away from their homes and forced them to resettle in new locations, whether within or...

Read more at: Wendy Pullan has article entitled 'Just cities: the role of public space and everyday life' featured on Saferworld website
Wendy Pullan has article entitled 'Just cities: the role of public space and everyday life' featured on Saferworld website

Wendy Pullan has article entitled 'Just cities: the role of public space and everyday life' featured on Saferworld website

25 January 2016

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Read more at: 'Destination: Europe', the new issue of Forced Migration Review features an article by UCR Researcher Irit Katz, 'A network of camps on the way to Europe'

'Destination: Europe', the new issue of Forced Migration Review features an article by UCR Researcher Irit Katz, 'A network of camps on the way to Europe'

6 January 2016

To read the full article visit: www.fmreview.org/en/destination-europe/katz.pdf For the full issue visit: http://www.fmreview.org/destination-europe

Read more at: New volume by Katherine O. Stafford entitled 'Narrating War in Peace: The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today' in the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie.

New volume by Katherine O. Stafford entitled 'Narrating War in Peace: The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today' in the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict series co-edited by UCR's Britt Baillie.

19 October 2015

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Read more at: UCR PhD candidate Irit Katz publishes a piece entitled 'Spreading and concentrating: The camp as the space of the frontier' In a special issue of City dedicated to 'Durable Camps'

UCR PhD candidate Irit Katz publishes a piece entitled 'Spreading and concentrating: The camp as the space of the frontier' In a special issue of City dedicated to 'Durable Camps'

15 October 2015

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Read more at: Congratulations to UCR PhD Candidate Gruia Badescu who has been awarded a one year lectureship as a Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography with an affiliation with St John's College

Congratulations to UCR PhD Candidate Gruia Badescu who has been awarded a one year lectureship as a Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography with an affiliation with St John's College

8 October 2015

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