Summer/Winter School

IJURR and RC21 (Research Committee 21 of the International Sociological Association) collaborate in running a School on “Comparative Urban Studies” every two years. Hitherto these have been timed to coincide with RC21 conferences.

The inaugural School was held in São Paulo (Brazil), in August 2009. It was hosted by Eduardo Marques and the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) at the University of São Paulo. Twenty-six graduate students and recent PhD graduates, from all over the world, participated. Participants came from Lebanon, Spain, Mexico, USA, China, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Greece, Turkey, Canada, India, Belgium, Peru and Brazil. Speakers at the School included John Logan (from the USA), Edmond Preteceille (France), Enzo Mingione (Italy), Jan-Willem Duyvendak (Netherlands), Yuri Kazepov (Italy and RC21) and Jeremy Seekings (South Africa/USA and IJURR), together with Raquel Rolnik, Nadya Guimaraes, Ilse Scherer-Warren and Eduardo Marques (all from Brazil). The School combined formal academic sessions, visits to different parts of São Paulo, and some memorable social events.

The second School will be held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in July 2011. Speakers at the School will include: Isa Baud (U. of Amsterdam), Talja Blokland (Humboldt U. at Berlin), Anouk de Koning (U. of Amsterdam) Ewald Engelen (U. of Amsterdam), Philip Kasinitz (City U. of New York), Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino and President of RC21), Patrick Le Galès (Sciences-Po, Paris), John Mollenkopf (City U. of New York), Clara Mulder (U. of Amsterdam), Jenny Robinson (University College London), Mike Savage (U. of Manchester), Jeremy Seekings (U. of Cape Town and co-editor of IJURR), AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths College, London) and Jeroen van der Waal (Erasmus U.). Generous funding from FURS allows IJURR/RC21 to offer scholarships to students from developing countries to attend these Schools. Further information about the 2011 Amsterdam School can be found here. 

Generous funding from FURS allows us to offer scholarships to students from developing countries covering the costs of their participation.