December 9, 2009
Open Seminar titled ‘Belarus & Ukraine in the Context of Spatial Dimension of Globalization: State, Capital, and Territoriality’ took place in L’viv (Ukraine), December 4-5. The seminar was co-organized by the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism (Vilnius, Lithuania) and the Center for Urban History of Est Central Europe (Lviv, http://www.lvivcenter.org/).
Program of the event can be downloaded here.
June 22, 2009
Last week, on June 19, we’ve been fortunate enough to look, to listen and even to talk to the mayors of the European cities at the International Mayors Forum in Vilnius titled “Culture as s Driving Force in City Development’.
In a strange mixture of academics and urban bureaucrats, some of the Critical Urbanists managed to pass across their message as to what a city could be without municipal authorities intervention in a city space.
Even though the translation into major languages was provided, i.e. Lithuanian, Russian, French, German, etc., still the translation from the academic language to the bureaucratic one was definitely missing.
Have a look here for the FORUM PROGRAMME
February 19, 2009
EUROPE BEFORE AND AFTER 1989: Trans-national and comparative perspectives on Eastern & Western Europe
Special call for papers: the revolutions of 1989 and the crisis of 2009
Anniversary Conference
10-12 June 2009
University of Padua, Italy
(more…)
January 21, 2009
December 23, 2008
Urban Critical Condition.
Yes, that week was rather a taugh one. As you can see, we all felt a little bit ‘out of focus’.
Right after the Fun Conference, we had an intensive Urbanism Seminar at the venues of European Humanities University, and supported by CASE. (more…)
December 22, 2008
Dear All,
I write to you to say that work is actively progressing on the preparation
of the seminar to take place at CEU in Budapest March 30-April 3 on
“Alternative Culture(s) and Urban Space” (text of call for participation
is below). (more…)
December 20, 2008
Below you can find the titles of the presentations made by the members of the Critical Urbanism Lab in Vilnius.
1. Jekaterina Lavrinec (Lithuania), Oksana Zaporozhets (Russia)
“Cityscapes: Choreography of Anxiety” (more…)
November 21, 2008
Link: http://www.graduateconferencefrankfurt.de/
Deadline: November 30
“The Future(s) of Critical Theory” Graduate Conference in Frankfurt aims to serve as a forum for this ongoing debate. We invite Ph.D students and postdocs from the humanities and the social sciences to discuss their work in relation to the challenges posed by the current debates on the status of critical theory today. Critical theory proves itself only in relation to its concrete object of investigation. We are therefore equally looking forward to the presentation of empirical research as to theoretical reflections.
