Venue: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon
11 October 2011 – 14 October 2011
Four years after the first meeting, the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers
provides continuity to the experience of interdisciplinary meeting of young urban researchers.
The conference aims to share recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social
sciences, to discuss current theoretical and methodological issues and to promote interdisciplinary and
international networking. It is intended that the meeting should be boosted by young researchers who
work in urban studies and develop research in the cities – especially those who are studying in
post-graduate programs but also those carrying out technical and intervention activities.
http://conferencias.cies.iscte.pt/index.php/icyurb/sicyurb
All over Europe, cities are faced with the challenge of using cultural resources to re-position their
city in an increasingly culturally and economically diversified European space. Related to this is a
clear recognition of the growing importance of cultural resources for economic and community
development. This produces new opportunities and challenges for local cultural planning and management.
In order to fully exploit the innovative and supportive role of culture in European urban development,
it will be necessary to develop a new socially and culturally sensitive professionalism, able to cross
the boundaries between the arts, design, urban and spatial planning, public policy and the market,
artistic creativity and cultural management.
The MA in European Urban Cultures offers a specialist programme aimed at graduate students from Europe
and elsewhere with undergraduate degrees in subject areas such as the social sciences; cultural and
leisure studies; art, design and architecture; urban theory and planning; cultural marketing and
management. The course is also targeted at professionals and administrators eager for the latest
experiences, ideas and insights in urban cultural policy.
