GOVERNING URBAN NATURES INFRASTRUCTURE, CITIZENSHIP AND MUNICIPAL ECOLOGIES KONFERENCE 4.-5. DECEMBER 2019
This collaborative conference at Aarhus University will bring together a diverse group of scholars from anthropology, history, architecture, sociology and urban planning. The conference will present studies that range from Stockholm to Cape Town and from Beijing to Santa Barbara to interrogate the past, present, and future of urban natures, focusing especially on the material politics of urban citizenship, infrastructural relations and service provision, and the formation and transformation of cities in the broadest terms. Taking place over two days, the conference welcomes attendance from anyone with an interest in the politics, governance, and everyday experience of urban environments around the globe. Key note speakers: Dorothee Brantz, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin Anne Rademacher, Environmental Studies and Anthropology, New York University Panels: Confirmed presenters will interrogate 1) Landscapes of Welfare and Austerity; 2) Administering Urban Environments: Scales, Units, and Heuristics; 3) Infrastructures, Flows and Water; 4) Contested Spaces; 5) The Politics of Data, Evidence, and Experience. Time: December 4-5, 2019 Place: Conference Room 2, Studenternes Hus, Frederik Nielsens Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C. Registration: Free of charge, but registration is necessary at: https://events.au.dk/urbannature2019
Urban Orders Research Center
Ecological Globalizations Research Group
Danish Centre for Urban History
Center for Environmental Humanities