Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA)

16/10/2018

01/10/2018

[ICAS 11 final reminder] Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 - ://mailchi.mp/iias/icas-11-call-for-proposals-deadline-10-october-final-reminder

22/06/2018

[ICAS 11 reminder] Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 -

, the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. ICAS attracts participants from over 60 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and ge...

19/04/2018

ICAS 11 - Call for proposals. Deadline 10 October 2018 -

The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies.

The submission deadline for proposals of Individual Abstracts, Panels, Roundtables, Book presentations and PhD Dissertation presentations is 10 October 2018.

, the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. ICAS attracts participants from over 60 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and ge...

21/12/2017

A successful UKNA symposium in Surabaya, Indonesia
On behalf of the International Institute for Asian Studies, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

12/09/2017

Cal for papers: Comprador Networks and Regional Modernism Panel

European Architectural History Network Fifth Annual Conference

Conference dates: June 13-16, 2018

Subission deadline: Please submit paper proposals by September 30, 2017

IIAS is a research institute based in the Netherlands. It encourages the multidisciplinary and comparative study of Asia.

04/08/2017

The program for the Urban Knowledge Network Asia Symposium, December 2017, Surabaya is online available!

http://iias.asia/event/river-cities

A two-day symposium on the relationship between rivers and cities.

19/05/2017

The call for papers is closed. We have received more than 100 abstract submission worldwide. Thank you for being interested in our call.

Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by mid-June 2017. Following the acceptance of their abstracts, authors should be prepared to submit a draft final paper to the symposium organizers by mid-November 2017.

15/05/2017

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme offers 10-month residencies — mainly in the Humanities and Social sciences — in 19 European cities. For more information click on the map below or check the list of

21/03/2017

Spring is coming in town! Best wishes from Leiden, the Netherlands 2017.

17/03/2017

Call for papers: River Cities: Water Space in Urban Development and History

Deadline: 1 May 2017

Symposium dates: 11 & 12 December 2017

Hosted by Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Supported by the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), Airlangga University, and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, the Netherlands

Cities and water can be said to have a love-hate relationship (1), and this is especially true of rivers in cities in Asia. Many Asian cities, like their cousins in the rest of the world, owe their locations to rivers and the trading opportunities and water sources these rivers provided. In recent years, cities across China are beautifying their water fronts, and cities as diverse as Singapore and Seoul are turning their rivers into assets as part of urban redevelopment schemes or restoring them in an effort to bring nature back to the city. But many other cities in Asia have their backs turned to their rivers. Where rivers were once trading and transport arteries, nowadays many of them have suffered neglect as roads and evolving trading patterns have supplanted the rivers’ economic and social functions. Their decline has been accompanied by environmental destruction, as their waters have become polluted and serve as the dumping ground for solid waste. Moreover, riverbank settlements evolved into legally ambiguous spaces, as old settlements were detached from land formalization regimes and were subjected to environmental deterioration from the rivers. Far from being an asset, these rivers have become an eyesore—and occasionally also a threat, owing to flooding exacerbated by poor planning and a poor understanding of the place of these water bodies in the wider regional eco-system.
(1) Reference is to: Feldman, D.L. (2017). The Water Sustainable City. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

More information
http://iias.asia/event/river-cities-water-space-urban-development-history