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CfA - URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY AND METHODS -- 2023 Field Training School and Research Seminar

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CALL for APPLICATIONS


2023 Field Training School and Research Seminar


URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY AND METHODS


Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21-27 July 2023


This 7-day Field Training School (21-27 July) is aimed at postgraduate
students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in research in urban
settings and in empirically-grounded analysis. The primary aim is to train
students in the art of conducting ethnographic fieldwork and develop the
link between ethnographically-based analysis and social theory.


The School is hosted by the International Urban Symposium-IUS; it is organised
in collaboration with an international interdisciplinary group of senior
scholars from leading universities from the UK, USA, France, Greece, Israel,
India, Italy, Republic of Georgia. It will address key issues; including,
legitimacy and legitimation; governance, stereotype and stigma; informality;
urban diversity; crisis, emergency and conflict; sport mega-events; vernacular
landscape, heritage.


The School offers an interactive learning environment and opportunities to
discuss the rationale and practices of traditional and new research methods
and mainstream debates.


The School will include:

* Thirteen 80-minute Teaching Seminars led by senior scholars.
* Targeted observational field trips will supplement the in-class work.
Students will report on the field trip.

* Student research seminars Students who are engaged in research will
have the opportunity to present their work and benefit from expert feedback
from the teaching staff.

Publication plans -- It is anticipated that expanded and revised versions of
select Seminar papers will be published in outlets associated with the IUS,
including the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Urbanities-Journal of Urban
Ethnography.


Teaching will be in English. Social events will also take place taking
advantage of the centrality of the location within easy reach of Tuscanys
world-renowned iconic places.


Deadline: Applications will be accepted until Monday 20th March 2023.


Further Information and Details on How to Apply are available at:
https://www.internationalurbansymposium.com/2023-field-training-school/.

With best wishes,
Giuliana


Prof. Giuliana B. Prato, Ph.D.

Secretary-Treasurer, International Urban Symposium -
IUS

Chair,
CUA-Urbananthropology

Co-Founder, URBANITIES - JOURNAL OF URBAN
ETHNOGRAPHY

Co-Editor, Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology | Book
series



- Healthcare and Public Health: Questions of Legitimacy |
https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-12-suppl-6-april-2022/

- Urban
Inequalities-Ethnog
raphically Informed Reflections

- The Palgrave Handbook of Urban
Ethnography


https://kent.academia.edu/GiulianaPrato

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3562-2307

Dr Giuliana B. Prato - School of Anthropology and Conservation - University of
Kent
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