Está aberta a chamada de artigos para a Revista Cadernos Metrópole nº 50, cujo tema é “Narrativas pós-neoliberais: interseções entre extrativismo urbano e movimento social”. Organizado Ernesto López-Morales e Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior, esse dossiê pretende reunir trabalhos empíricos e/ou teóricos, que desenvolvam em uma ou múltiplas escalas de observação, análises teóricas e metodológicas sólidas, e que também imaginem cenários “pós-neoliberais”, recuperando dimensões de utopia ou mesmo distopia. Prazo para envio de artigos: 31 de maio de 2020.

Lema das JIIDE 2020: "Contributos para o desenvolvimento de uma economia de baixo carbono". As Jornadas Ibéricas de Infraestruturas de Dados Espaciais (JIIDE) resultam de uma parceria entre a Direção-Geral do Território de Portugal, o Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Espanha, através de Centro Nacional de Informação Geográfica, e o Governo de Andorra. A XI edição desta conferência vai decorrer nos dias 28, 29 e 30 de outubro de 2020 em Évora e terá como pano de fundo as questões relacionadas com a economia de baixo carbono. Datas: 28 a 30 de outubro 2020. Local: Évora, Portugal - Universidade de Évora (Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora). A data limite para o envio dos resumos é 1 de junho.

The conference aims to explore metaphors as productive mediators in processes of knowledge transfer between the fields of architecture and everyday knowledges and between architectural and other professional discourses.

We welcome proposals from all disciplines. Please submit abstracts by 1 June 2020.The conference is scheduled to take place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 6-7 November 2020.

Given the current Corona-Virus situation we will monitor the developments closely and consider alternative arrangements regarding the date or format of the conference as necessary.

You are a PhD candidate in the field of spatial planning? You want to join the E-Seminar for 25 to 30 PhD candidates in planning and participate in discussions with other PhD candidates and mentors? Please send a draft of your current research plus a CV till 1 June, 2020. Date of E-Seminar Monday, 13 July and Tuesday, 14 July, 2020.

Ciudad Feminista les invita a ser parte de este nuevo proyecto, compartiendo sus reflexiones, discusiones y escritos en torno a feminismos, urbanismo feminista, ecofeminismo, violencia de género, cuidados, derecho a la ciudad, interseccionalidad, pandemia, la ciudad que queremos, entre otros.  La invitación es a enviarnos sus ensayos entre el 4 de mayo y 4 de junio.

With the title Heated identities: differences, belonging, and populisms in an effervescent world, the XI Portuguese Congress of Sociology, will take place in Lisbon, from June 29 to July 1, 2020, under the local organization of ESPP/ISCTE-IUL and ICS-ULisboa.

Given the developing situation of the pandemic the Portuguese Association of Sociology Board has decided that the necessary conditions have not been gathered for the XI Congress to take place in the previously set dates, June 29th to July 1st. The submitted abstracts and the evaluation results stand as is. As soon as possible, we will provide you with the new Congress dates and the respective deadlines.

The proposed Greening Cities-Shaping Cities symposium (to be held at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies) aims to address how greening strategies such as the integration of nature and Nature-based Solutions into the built environment encounters opportunities and challenges in shaping cities in terms of transformation, occurring both in the domains of morphology and governance, through  inclusive co-production of space. The symposium will be held 12-13 October 2020 at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30th June 2020.

The editors of CIDADES: Comunidades e Territórios Journal invite authors to submit articles, which address the territory as an opportunity for a sustainability transition, in its most varied domains and scales of approach. What changes, what planning and governance approaches, and what scales of intervention are necessary for such transition? Is this a new debate about the territory within technical and scientific research? What research approaches are being developed today? The deadline for full papers submission is 1st July 2020. All submissions will be reviewed by independent experts in accordance with the peer review model of the journal. Publication of the thematic dossier is planned for December 2020.

The 1st International Conference on Night Studies is an international event that aims to echo frontier research, artistic works and professional practices related to the study of the urban night in multiple contexts around the world. In parallel with the conference sessions, there will be field excursions, and other activities related to the night in the Portuguese capital. ICNS is a collaborative effort of the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL), the Interdisciplinar Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), the Institute of Sociology – University of Porto (ISUP) and the LXNIGHTS Network. ICNS.LX will be held in Lisbon on July 2nd and 3rd, 2020 at ISCTE-IUL.

Urban Studies Journal is calling for paper submissions for a special issue that theoretically and/or empirically examine COVID-19 and other pandemics as urban public health emergencies. The special issue will compile a series of contributions which will improve our understanding of the new and emerging relationships between urbanization and infectious disease. Urban Studies encourages researchers to respond to this call through existing paper submission mechanisms at the Journal as soon as possible if you have a full-length paper ready for submission. In addition, we encourage researchers who are still in the process of data collection, analysis, and/or writing to submit an abstract of 500 words outlining your research by Friday 3 July 2020.

The TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in a variety of disciplines, including (but not limited to): history, politics and international relations, and literary studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome. University Institute of Lisbon, will host the conference between 6-8 July 2020.

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the outlook for the coming months, the TSA Management Committee has taken the decision to cancel the TSA 2020 conference in Lisbon. This step was taken with great sadness, but there was unanimity on the Management Committee that this was the right decision in the circumstances.

 “Identidades e Dinâmicas de Reconfiguração Urbana na Era Digital”.

Para a conferência são propostos quatro subtemas – IDEOLOGIA E FORMA URBANA; EQUIPAMENTOS COLECTIVOS E FORMA URBANA; O TEMPO E A FORMA URBANA; MORFOLOGIAS URBANAS EM ESPAÇOS PERIFÉRICOS

9 de julho - início do congresso I Lisboa.

O Congresso PNUM 2020 foi adiado para data a anunciar logo que possível.

The European sustainability award, co-organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the Basque Country, and the City of Aalborg (Denmark) and supported by the European Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank, is given to a city, region or civil society organisation, which implements the 15 pathways outlined in the Basque Declaration to bring about the socio-cultural, socio-economic, and technological transformation of their community. The actions taken are local or regional contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. Applicants should complete and submit their application form by 31 July 2020.

The International Conference ‘Grand Projects - Urban Legacies of the late 20th Century’ aims to debate the transformations that have taken place in urban territories over the last two decades by considering the impacts of late 20th century policies and conjunctures. The conference will take place in Lisbon, February 17-19, 2021. Deadline for abstracts submission: July 31, 2020.

The 2020 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development will take place in Antwerp from 6 to 8 July 2020. The general theme of the conference is ‘Sensing and Shaping the City’, focusing on how citizens experience the fragmentary, unequal and contradictory realities of global urbanity.

Because of the uncertainties caused by COVID-19, the RC21 Conference in Antwerp, planned for July 6-8 2020, will take place from 10 to 12 September 2020.

A Comissão Organizadora do XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB) e 3º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa, a realizar em Coimbra, de 2 a 4 de setembro de 2020, convida à apresentação de propostas de comunicação nos Grupos de Trabalhos.

Adiamento do XIV CONLAB para 2021. O congresso terá lugar entre 15 e 17 de setembro de 2021, em Coimbra, Portugal.