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[ICAS 11 final reminder] Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 - ://mailchi.mp/iias/icas-11-call-for-proposals-deadline-10-october-final-reminder

[ICAS 11 reminder] Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 -

[ICAS 11 reminder] Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 , the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. ICAS attracts participants from over 60 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and ge...

ICAS 11 - Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 -

The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies.

The submission deadline for proposals of Individual Abstracts, Panels, Roundtables, Book presentations and PhD Dissertation presentations is 10 October 2018.

[ICAS 11] Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 , the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. ICAS attracts participants from over 60 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and ge...

A successful UKNA symposium in Surabaya, Indonesia
On behalf of the International Institute for Asian Studies, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Cal for papers: Comprador Networks and Regional Modernism Panel

European Architectural History Network Fifth Annual Conference

Conference dates: June 13-16, 2018

Subission deadline: Please submit paper proposals by September 30, 2017

https://iias.asia/event/comprador-networks-regional-modernism-panel

Comprador Networks and Regional Modernism Panel IIAS is a research institute based in the Netherlands. It encourages the multidisciplinary and comparative study of Asia.

The program for the Urban Knowledge Network Asia Symposium, December 2017, Surabaya is online available!

http://iias.asia/event/river-cities

River Cities: Water Space in Urban Development and History A two-day symposium on the relationship between rivers and cities.

The call for papers is closed. We have received more than 100 abstract submission worldwide. Thank you for being interested in our call.

Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by mid-June 2017. Following the acceptance of their abstracts, authors should be prepared to submit a draft final paper to the symposium organizers by mid-November 2017.

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Spring is coming in town! Best wishes from Leiden, the Netherlands 2017.

Call for papers: River Cities: Water Space in Urban Development and History

Deadline: 1 May 2017

Symposium dates: 11 & 12 December 2017

Hosted by Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Supported by the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), Airlangga University, and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, the Netherlands

Cities and water can be said to have a love-hate relationship (1), and this is especially true of rivers in cities in Asia. Many Asian cities, like their cousins in the rest of the world, owe their locations to rivers and the trading opportunities and water sources these rivers provided. In recent years, cities across China are beautifying their water fronts, and cities as diverse as Singapore and Seoul are turning their rivers into assets as part of urban redevelopment schemes or restoring them in an effort to bring nature back to the city. But many other cities in Asia have their backs turned to their rivers. Where rivers were once trading and transport arteries, nowadays many of them have suffered neglect as roads and evolving trading patterns have supplanted the rivers’ economic and social functions. Their decline has been accompanied by environmental destruction, as their waters have become polluted and serve as the dumping ground for solid waste. Moreover, riverbank settlements evolved into legally ambiguous spaces, as old settlements were detached from land formalization regimes and were subjected to environmental deterioration from the rivers. Far from being an asset, these rivers have become an eyesore—and occasionally also a threat, owing to flooding exacerbated by poor planning and a poor understanding of the place of these water bodies in the wider regional eco-system.
(1) Reference is to: Feldman, D.L. (2017). The Water Sustainable City. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

More information
http://iias.asia/event/river-cities-water-space-urban-development-history

From 2017, UKNA (Urban Knowledge Network Asia) is expanding to South East Asia.

The International Institute for Asian Studies is extremely pleased to be able to announce that the Henry Luce Foundation (New York, NY) has awarded a four-year grant of US$360,000 for the new Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network (SEANNET) programme (2017-2021).

This new 'urban' initiative of IIAS is about research, teaching and dissemination of knowledge on Asia through the prism of city neighborhoods and urban communities.

https://dezwijger.nl/programma/urbanized-2

Movie screeningUrbanized Who is allowed to shape our cities and what are the criteria for their decisions?

Happy New Year and Best Wishes! Greeting from UKNA 2017

The human scale

The Human Scale - Official Trailer Directed by Andreas Dalsgaard. 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting ...

http://metrocosm.com/map-history-cities.html

6000 Years of Urbanization Visualized Watch as the world's cities appear one-by-one, 3700 BC to 2000 AD

http://iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/urban-knowledge-network-asia-update

Urban Knowledge Network Asia - An update Common visionConsisting of over 100 researchers with affiliations at 17 institutes in Europe, China, India and the United States, the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) represents the largest global academic network on Asian cities. UKNA’s objective is to nurture contextualised and policy relevant…

https://dezwijger.nl/programmareeks/new-urban-agenda

New Urban Agenda Identifying and addressing global urban challenges

The Siege and Relief of Leiden
Every year on 2 and 3 October the City of Keys shakes on its foundations. This is when Leiden commemorates the siege of the city during the Eighty Years War and its relief on 3 October 1574. The city is one gigantic party, when citizens and visitors can join in the traditional festivities. There’s always a parade of marching bands, a costume pageant and a funfair. And not to mention the traditional handing out of herring and white bread to the citizens of Leiden.

Siege and Relief of Leiden Museum De Lakenhal inspires, connects, renews!

UKNA Urban Asia presentation serie on Thursday 2o October at IIAS conference room by Dr Rituparna Roy

Kolkata in her maiden collection of shorts - GARIAHAT JUNCTION In this lecture, Dr Rituparna Roy will speak about the presence of Kolkata in her maiden collection of shorts - GARIAHAT JUNCTION

On 15 September, Urban Big Data Rotterdam organises a lecture on this topic at Erasmus University.

Lecture: Big Data, Urban Informatics and the City New sources of big data are rapidly emerging as a result of technological, institutional, social, and business innovations, and are stimulating the emerging area of Urban Informatics.

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China, a guide for the 21st century discussions on Tuesday 20 Sept. at SPUI25 in Amsterdam

Discussiebijeenkomst “China, een gids voor de 21e eeuw”

Leiden 2017 Asia year

www.leidenasiayear.nl

Issue 7.2
Transnationalism and South Asian Artists Moving Image
Call for Papers | Deadline: 1 March 2017

This issue will be guest edited by Lucia King & Rashmi Sawhney

The uncontestably global ecologies of contemporary moving image art have invited some deliberation on questions of regional aesthetics, identity, circulation and transnationalism. Yet such discussions have mainly taken place in the context of exhibiting ‘non-western’ art in the western world. Contradictions still persist in the project of destabilizing assumed hierarchies within the Euro-American art world (in the most recent Documenta XI and Venice Biennale, for example) whilst artists of the global South gain currency primarily by meeting the expectations of ‘western’ art markets. Furthermore, Euro-American art historical discourse remains negligent of film and video art’s legacies from the South, including experimental film and screen-based arts. As a consequence, moving image art by ‘non-western’ artists is either caged into essentialist frameworks founded on mythical notions of ‘authenticity’, or stirred into the melting pot of contemporary art without due attention to their particular cultural and aesthetic contexts. This MIRAJ issue, therefore, engages with the particularities of film and video art practices from South Asia, and leverages these in theorising the relationship between regional, global and transnational moving image cultures.

To address some of these gaps in scholarship, this special edition of MIRAJ focuses on the circuits of production, exhibition and authoring of South Asian artists moving image in order to chart key theoretical terrains of ‘regional’ practices in a global context. We solicit articles from artists, critics and curators who work within and outside South Asia, that highlight conceptual frameworks and offer insights on the multi-layered relationships between ‘home and the world’, region and identity, aesthetics and translatability, cultural specificities and contexts of classification/consumption/circulation. We invite articles that build upon foundational work in South Asian moving image art and film histories as well as transnational art practices and aesthetics.

We are particularly interested in articles that address the following:
•Theories of film and video art outside of the ‘national’ framework that are attentive to influences, collaborations and exchanges across geographic and political regions.
•Examples of significant regional exchanges and collaborations between artists and filmmakers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
•The relationship between region, identity and moving image practice in South Asia.
•The aesthetic pre-cursors (in a pre-cinematic sense) that influence contemporary moving image art in the region, including investigations of artist(s)’ methodologies.
•Experiments in film and video art that emphasise ‘indigenous forms’.
•Transnational curatorial practices that work with and around the regional/national framework.
•Historicising South Asian moving image art in the post-medium context.
•Spectatorship and post medium/ multi-media art in/from South Asia.
•South Asian artists’ moving image engagement with science, political activism, environmentalism, urbanism etc.
•South Asian artists’ moving image hybridity with alternate media genres, such as experimental film, documentary, and digital media.
•Digital media and the exhibition and distribution of ‘regional’ moving image art.
•Digital archives and curatorial practices in/about South Asian film & video art.

Please submit completed manuscripts only. Send all contributions by e-mail in DOC format to the Editorial Assistant: [email protected].
For full details on submission procedures please visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/
For enquiries please email: [email protected]

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Interesting article in the context of Habitat III (the Quito UN summit on the new urban agenda, that will be approved in October). The article mentions exactly the kinds of things that UKNA is pressing for i.e. the need for new types of curricula for urban planning (and urban studies more generally) and the emphasis on "partnership-based planning" .This is certainly also relevant in Asia...

Developing countries face a catastrophic lack of urban planning capacity | Citiscope

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Call for Papers | International Indonesian Forum for Asian Studies (IIFAS) * The Empowering International Network for Regional Asian Studies

http://iias.asia/page/mike-douglass-ukna-envisioning-human-flourishing-asian-resilient-cities

Mike Douglass & UKNA: Envisioning Human Flourishing in Asian Resilient Cities Do you live in an Asian city? If yes, then how would you describe it? Is it a Mega City? Smart City? Eco City? Is it Resilient? Flourishing? Progressive? Is it a Metropolis or a Globopolis? Do all the adjectives above sound similar to you? Rest assured they are not! Important criteria separate the d...