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Post-Doctoral Fellowships
TBA
Study Abroad:
TBA
PhD Programs:
Department of
Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo. The PhD program in Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. The doctoral program offers diverse research and learning opportunities, with
special capability, international distinction, and emphasis in the following
areas:
1. Declining
cities and distressed urban communities
2. Health,
food systems, universal design
3. Sustainability and climate change
4. Transportation systems
Our graduate students have the opportunity to engage with
several centers and labs that are exploring the cutting edge of scholarship in
the above issues. These include the UB Regional Institute, Urban Design Project, Center for Urban Studies, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies, Food
Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW), and the Global Health Equity Community of Excellence. These research centers and labs
connect students with faculty with research interests similar to their own and
unique opportunities to pursue focused research at an advanced level. The
program also encourages students to explore other research centers and
interdisciplinary studies across the University at Buffalo, one of the nation's
premier centers for academic excellence and the most comprehensive,
research-intensive university within the 64-campus SUNY system.
Applications are invited from highly qualified and
motivated doctoral candidates interested in pursuing a career in research and
teaching. Selected candidates will be considered for tuition remission and
a competitive stipend. Admitted PhD candidates may also be considered for
competitive financial awards available through sponsored research projects. Candidates must have strong analytical and writing skills. Additional information about the program is available at:
http://ap.buffalo.edu/academics/graduate-degrees/phd.html
Call for Manuscripts and Papers:
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
48th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association
April 4-7, 2018 |
Sheraton Toronto Centre Hotel | Toronto, CN
Abstract/Session Proposal
Deadline: October 1, 2017
Shaping
Justice and Sustainability Within and Beyond the City's Edge:
Contestation
and Collaboration in Urbanizing Regions
In an era of globalizing
forces, the region has become an important arena for collaboration and
contestation, as metropolitan areas work to craft their individual identities.
As they do so, questions of equity, inclusion, and sustainability remain. What
is the role of diversity, difference and singularity of social actors and
communities when it comes to forging visions of urban development that are
collective in process, cohesive in vision and sustainable in implementation?
Furthermore, as global financial systems exert greater control over national,
regional, and local economies, what is the role of innovative and/or insurgent
social practices in an urbanizing region? What are the most effective
strategies to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities
in a regional context? How will different factions of regional actors evolve
given conventional relationships, increased social and cultural diversity, and
the contradictions of competitiveness and solidarity?
The conference site, Toronto,
has become an international model of alternative approaches to urban policies,
particularly in the areas of housing, immigration/diversity, social equity, and
environmental sustainability. The city anchors the largest metropolitan area in
Canada, a region that has emerged as a global leader in innovation. But
significant tensions underlie this impressive image. Rising socio-spatial
inequality, escalating housing costs, racialized patterns of growth, and
inadequate transportation infrastructure, all threaten the region's future
prospects. Furthermore, social, economic, environmental and political cleavages
between municipalities comprising the Toronto region continue to emerge. Yet,
there are also examples of collaboration in planning and policy at the local
and regional levels that have created opportunities for community engagement,
grassroots place-making and larger scale city-building. The conference provides
an opportunity to both extend our understanding of the Toronto metropolitan
experience, and importantly, to examine the broader topic of contestation and
promise of collaboration in regions globally. Ultimately, the conference will
allow us to examine a fundamentally critical question: how can policies and
actions within a regional context promote the development of communities that
are both just and sustainable?
Topical Categories
In keeping
with UAA tradition, we encourage proposals
that focus on an array of research
topics including:
·
Arts, Culture in
Urban Contexts
·
Disaster Planning/Disaster Management for Urban Areas, Cities and National
Security
·
Economic Development, Redevelopment, Tourism, Urban Economics, Urban Finance
·
Education Policy in Urban Contexts, Educational Institutions and Urban Inequalities
·
Environmental
Issues, Sustainability
·
Globalization,
Multi-national Urban Issues
·
Governance,
Intergovernmental Relations, Regionalism, Urban Management
·
Health and Urban Communities
·
Historic
Preservation, Space and Place
·
Historical
Perspectives on Cities, Urban Areas
·
Housing,
Neighborhoods, Community Development
·
Human Services and
Urban Populations, Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector in Urban Contexts
·
Immigration,
Population and Demographic Trends in Urban
Areas
·
Infrastructure, Capital
Projects, Networks, Transport, Urban Services
·
Labor, Employment,
Wages, Training
·
Land Use, Growth
Management, Urban Development, Urban Planning
·
Poverty, Welfare,
Income Inequality
·
Professional
Development, The Field of Urban Affairs
·
Public Safety in
Urban Areas, Criminal Justice, Household Violence
·
Race, Ethnicity,
Gender, Diversity
·
Social Capital,
Democracy and Civil
Society, Social Theory,
Religion and the City
·
Urban
Communications (Urban Media Roles, Urban
Journalism, Social Media/Technology in Urban Life)
·
Urban Design,
Urban Architecture
·
Urban Indicators,
Data/Methods, Satisfaction/Quality of Life Surveys
·
Urban Politics,
Elections, Citizen Participation
·
Urban Theory,
Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban
Affairs
·
Urban
Issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim
·
Urban
Issues in Central & South America and the
Caribbean
Local Host Committee: Conference Program Committee:
Roger Keil, York University
(Co-Chair)
Leslie Martin, University of Mary Washington (Co-Chair) [USA]
Shauna Brail, University of
Toronto
(Co-Chair)
Pierre Hamel, Université de Montréal (Co-Chair) [Canada]
David Amborski, Ryerson
University
Lars Engberg, Aalborg University Copenhagen [Denmark]
Sara Hughes, University of
Toronto
Lúcia Capanema Álvares, Universidade Federal Fluminense [Brazil]
Virginia Maclaren, University
of
Toronto
Kevin Keenan, College of Charleston [USA]
Cathy Yang Liu, Georgia State University [USA]
Jill Tao, Incheon National University [Korea]
Proposal Submission Formats and Policies
Individuals
are limited to participation (as
presenter, speaker or moderator) in one (1)
session. There is no limit to the number of papers/posters for which you
are a co-author. Persons in
special panels can participate in one additional session.
A proposal
can be submitted through the UAA website
(starting June 1, 2017) for a:
· Research paper
presentation--(proposal requires an
abstract) OR
· Pre-organized
panel--(proposal requires a panel
summary, group of 4-5 paper abstracts/ moderator)OR
· Pre-organized
colloquy-- (proposal requires theme
statement & names of 4-5 formal discussants) OR
· Breakfast
roundtable--(proposal requires theme
statement & names of 1-2 conveners) OR
· Poster--(proposal requires an abstract)—best option
for persons who are in early stage
of their research
Abstract/Proposal
Deadline:
UAA will not accept any proposals (of any kind) after October 1, 2017, 12
midnight Central Daylight Time (CDT) or 5:00am GMT. The online submission site
will close at 12:01 am CDT. Acceptance or rejection notices will
be sent by November 30, 2017.
Questions? Visit the UAA website:www.urbanaffairsassociation.org (for info on proposal submissions, registration, hotel reservations, etc.), or contact
us at [email protected] or 1-414-229-3025
Call for Book Proposals
Community Quality ofLife and Well-Being
Aims and Scope of the Series
Series Editor: Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University, US
Editorial Board: Meg Holden, Simon Fraser University, Canada; Charlotte Khan, The Boston Foundation, US; Youngwha Kee, Soongsil University, Korea; Alex Michalos, University ofNorthern British Columbia, Canada;Don Rahtz, College of William and Mary, US; Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, US;Ben Warner, Jacksonville Community Council, Inc., US
Community Quality of Life and Well-being is a book series comprised of volumes related to local and regional level research, providing current and leading edge information to planners, policymakers, and quality of life researchers involved in community and regional well-being research and application. Formerly entitled Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Practices, the series reflects the broad scope of well-being. In addition to best practices of community quality-of-life indicators projects the series welcomes a variety of research and practice topics as related to overall community well-being and quality of life dimensions, relating to policy, application, research, and/or practice. Research on issues such as societal happiness, quality of life domains in the policy construct, measuring and gauging progress, dimensions of urban and regional planning and community development, and related topics are anticipated.
This series is published by Springer in partnership with the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), a global society with the purpose of promoting and encouraging research and collaboration in quality of life and well-being theory and applications. More information about ISQOLS can be found at www.isqols.org. The Editor welcomes proposals for both edited volumes and authored monographs contributions on topics such as:
· Quality of Life in Communities
· Societal Happiness
· Social Health and Well-Being
· Life Satisfaction in various life domains
· Well-Being Theories and Applications
· Quality of Life for Policy Development
· Measuring and Gauging Quality of Life
· Dimensions of Planning and Community Development
· Indicators of Well-Being
· Overall Community Well-Being
Please direct your inquiries or send your proposal to:RhondaPhillips, [email protected]
For more information about the series: http://www.springer.com/series/13761
Book Series Call for Proposals:
POLIS: Fordham
Series in Urban Studies
Series Editor:
Daniel J. Monti, Professor of Sociology and the doctoral program in
Public and Social Policy, Saint Louis University
Series
Rationale:
The books and monographs published in the Polis series will explore the
distinctive urban way of life and community first imagined by the Greeks over
2,000 years ago and now being replicated across the globe. This series will
address the question of what makes a good community and how urban dwellers
succeed and fail to live up to the idea that people from various backgrounds
and levels of society can live together effectively, if not always congenially.
The province of no one discipline, we are searching for authors in fields as
diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science,
Sociology, and Urban Studies and who can write for both academic and informed
lay audiences. Our objective is to celebrate and critically assess the
customary ways in which urbanites make the world corrigible for themselves and
the other kinds of people with whom they come into contact every day.
To this end we will publish both book-length
manuscripts and a series of "digital shorts" focusing on case studies of
groups, locales, and events that provide clues to how urban people accomplish
this delicate and exciting task. We expect to publish one or two books every
year but a larger number of "digital shorts." The monographs will be 20,000
words or less and have a strong narrative voice. These shorter pieces, like our
books, will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars whose number
will include members of our advisory board. They will be electronically
archived and made available to instructors who wish to create course packets
for their students and to any party interested in learning more about their own
and other people's urban way of life. It is hoped that some of our "digital
shorts" authors will develop their work into manuscripts that become books in thePolis series.
Advisory
Board Members
A collection of established and younger scholars has
agreed to serve on the series advisory board. Several additional slots will be
filled in the near future. Our board specializes in a variety of social
scientific, historical, policy, and ethnographic fields of study. The members will
lend their expertise to the selection of manuscripts and readers, help to
review manuscripts, and we hope will contribute samples of their own work to
the books and "digital shorts" offered in the series. Our principal goal,
beyond finding good work to publish, is to promote the development of young and
mid-career scholars who are interested in the serious study of urban people and
places.
Michael Ian Borer
Department of Sociology
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Department of Sociology
Boston University
Michael Goodman
Executive Director
Public Policy Center at UMass Dartmouth
R. Scott Hanson
Lecturer, History
Director, Social Justice Research Academy
The University of Pennsylvania
Annika Hinze
Department of Political Science
Fordham University
Elaine Lewinnek
Department of American Studies
California State University -- Fullerton
Ben Looker
Department of American Studies
Saint Louis University
Ali Modarres
Urban Studies
University of Washington -- Tacoma
Bruce O'Neil
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Saint Louis University
Call for Papers: JUA Special Issue on Refugees and the City
Award Nominations:
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Position Announcements:
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Urban Affairs Association (UAA)
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