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Conflict in Cities members interviewed by the Guardian for an article entitled 'Walls: an illusion of security from Berlin to the West Bank'

20 November 2013

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PhD Candidate Irit Katz is the first-ever winner of the James Morris Essay prize

13 November 2013

Irit Katz, Girton College Scholar and a Phd Candidate in the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, has won the James Morris prize, a new award of the 'Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain' for work on British Colonial and Post-Colonial Architecture. The article titled 'Camps in Mandatory Palestine: The...

UCR's Britt Baillie will be a keynote speaker at: Cities that Talk

21 October 2013

AESOP Young Academics Network is proud to announce the 8th annual Conference Cities that Talk Gothenburg, Sweden, 10 – 13th March, 2014. Conference website: http://www.aesop-youngacademics.net/en/Conferences The conference responds to the contemporary phenomena of urban resistances that have significantly challenged...

History and Theory Research Seminar Series: How U.S.-Style Segregation Outlived Apartheid, and Other Tales from a Global History of Divided Cities, Carl Nightingale

10 October 2013

October 22nd 5:30pm Boardroom, Department of Architecture

The City Seminar at CRASSH continues this year under the theme 'Mobilising Cities'

7 October 2013

Co-convened by UCR PhD student Hanna Baumann

Cambridge UN Peace One Day events

3 October 2013

UCR Director Wendy Pullan to give Keynote at the Competing Memories Conference

30 September 2013

29 October - 1 November 2013 University of Amsterdam & VU University Amsterdam

Britt Baillie will present a paper entitled: Chronocentrism: Memory and Victimhood in 'conflict-time' at the POST-CONFLICT, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Wageningen, 9-11 October 2013

30 September 2013

Visit http://www.peaceconference.org/ for more information.

Book launch for 'Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday' on 22nd October

30 September 2013

Palgrave MacMillan and The Centre for Urban Conflict Research invite you to celebrate the publication of: Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday Edited by Wendy Pullan and Britt Baillie Tuesday 22 October 6:30p.m Heffers Bookshop 20 Trinity Street Cambridge CB2 1TY Tickets are available through...

UCR contributes to UN Peace One Day Events in Cambridge

24 September 2013

UCR team member Dr Britt Baillie adjudicated three 6th form debates on Peace/Conflict involving students from The Leys, Comberton. Parkside, Hills Road, Impington and Long Road on 23 September at the Leys School. On the 24th of September she ran a workshop at Parkside on Urban Conflict and Peace. http://www.un.org/en/...

New CinC Book: Locating Urban Conflicts Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday

19 August 2013

Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. In 12 multidisciplinary essays, Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday brings together key themes that dominate our current political, social and cultural attention: emerging areas of contestation in...

Dr. Britt Baillie will be co-chairing a session entitled Archaeology and Cultural Heritage During and After Armed Conflict

19 August 2013

The session takes place at the European Archaeological Association Annual Meeting in Pilsen on September 8th http://www.eaa2013.cz/programme/academic-programme/list-of-sessions-round-tables/#b Organisers: Emily O’Dell (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Britt Baillie (University of Cambridge, UK) and Tera Pruitt (...

Interactions 2013 workshop: ‘Understanding Urban Conflicts’

1 July 2013

University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Atelier Condorcet. 5-6 July 2013

Conflict in Cities members interviewed by the Guardian for an article entitled 'Walls: an illusion of security from Berlin to the West Bank'

PhD Candidate Irit Katz is the first-ever winner of the James Morris Essay prize

UCR's Britt Baillie will be a keynote speaker at: Cities that Talk

History and Theory Research Seminar Series: How U.S.-Style Segregation Outlived Apartheid, and Other Tales from a Global History of Divided Cities, Carl Nightingale

The City Seminar at CRASSH continues this year under the theme 'Mobilising Cities'

Cambridge UN Peace One Day events

UCR Director Wendy Pullan to give Keynote at the Competing Memories Conference

Britt Baillie will present a paper entitled: Chronocentrism: Memory and Victimhood in 'conflict-time' at the POST-CONFLICT, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Wageningen, 9-11 October 2013

Book launch for 'Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday' on 22nd October

UCR contributes to UN Peace One Day Events in Cambridge

New CinC Book: Locating Urban Conflicts Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday

Dr. Britt Baillie will be co-chairing a session entitled Archaeology and Cultural Heritage During and After Armed Conflict

Interactions 2013 workshop: ‘Understanding Urban Conflicts’

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