[DEBATE] : Urban studies summer/winter school

[David McDonald]

FYI....

Dear Colleagues,

It's a pleasure to inform you that IJURR and RC21 of the International
Sociology Association are holding an inaugural "School" on "Comparative
Urban Studies" in Sao Paulo this August.  The School is being organized
together with the Centre for Metropolitan Studies in Sao Paulo, with funding
from the Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies (FURS), RC21, IJURR and
the CEM.  It will take place in Sao Paulo (Brazil) from the 17th to the 22nd
of August 2009, immediately prior to the RC21 Conference on "Inequality,
Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging" (23rd-25th August 2009).  Topics to be
studied in the School include the similarities and differences between
cities in the global North and South; Sao Paulo itself (to include guided
tours of the city); segregation, inequality and poverty; belonging and
exclusion in the city.

The School is aimed at postgraduate students and junior researchers in urban
studies from across the world.  We expect between twenty and twenty-five
students only, and we are offering about fifteen generous scholarships for
participants from countries classified in category "B" and "C" by the ISA.

We hope that you may have students or know of students or junior researchers
who would be interested in participating in the School. We are now asking
for applications for places and scholarships.

The link is: www.shakti.uniurb.it/winter2009.  Here you will find all
relevant information.

Yuri Kazepov, Jeremy Seekings, Eduardo Marques