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Newsletter May 2019
Centre for Urban Studies
NEWS
Open Calls - Visiting Scholar, Teaching Buyout & Fellowship Grants
The Centre for Urban Studies has launched three grant calls: a Visiting Scholar Grant, four Teaching Buyout Grants and three Fellowship Grants. The application deadline for all three grants is 17 June 2019.
> Find the fulls call online
  • The Visiting Scholar Grant (10.000 euros) aims at stimulating new, innovative and collaborative research and initiatives. This grant provides one scholar funding for a stay of 6 weeks to 3 months in 2020. The grant will first and foremost cover travel and living expenses.
  • Three Fellowship Grants (1.600 euros each) are provided to support recently graduated master students who are aspiring a PhD position, or PhD students who are aspiring a Post Doc position, both from within and outside of the UvA. These grants will be awarded to fund a stay at the University of Amsterdam for three months.
  • The Teaching Buyout Grants (each approximately 12.000 euros) aim to assist permanent staff in writing a major research grant application or in the development of a project that benefits the researcher as well as the Centre for Urban Studies and its mission. Four grants will be awarded to allow for a teaching buyout for the equivalent of 0,1 FTE (or a total of 162,5 hours) for one year to be spent in calendar year 2020. 
Marco te Brömmelstroet appointed Professor of Urban Mobility Futures
Centre for Urban Studies member Dr M.C.G. te Brömmelstroet has been appointed professor of Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The chair is partly funded by BAM Infra Nederland B.V.

This new chair aims at strengthening the social-scientific perspective on mobility innovations. Its focus will be on questions such as if and how such innovations can contribute to the human scale of our cities, how our societies function and the quality of our public spaces. Which futures are made (im)possible and what effects are (not) discussed?
> More information
Governing Transitions in Urban Transport Course - Open for Applications
The Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford is currently accepting applications for the Governing Transitions in Urban Transport course, to be held Tuesday 25th- Friday 28th June 2019, at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. This course explores how such transformations can be facilitated and steered through policy and planning. On Wednesday 26 June CUS member Dr. Anna Nikolaeva will give a lecture on the governance of low carbon mobility transitions.

Those applying for the PhD reduced fare, the deadline is 21 May.
> More information and application
UPCOMING EVENTS
Masterstudio 2019
17 May: "Asbestos Towns" - Public Lecture by Dr. Arthur Rose
In this talk, Arthur Rose wants to introduce, by way of Patrick Chaimoiseau’s Martinquean epic, Texaco (1992), the ‘asbestos town’: an identification that allows us to consider how asbestos develops, through its involvement in habitation, a strange and complicated relation to community, ecology and environmental toxicity. This talk explores the ways in which 'asbestos towns', come to shape a particular consciousness of asbestos in the built environment.

Participants should prepare by reading three articles. Readings are available by sending an email to Carolyn Birdsall.
Registration is not required.

Friday 17 May
15.00 – 17.00
Room 101A, Universiteitstheater
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18
> More information
18 May: Health, Behaviour & Society Faculty Conference
On 18 May FMG hosts the Health, Behaviour and Society Faculty Conference which includes a specific session on Urban Dynamics and Health. During the conference a wide range of health related topics will be addressed, from modern welfare diseases, understanding human and cognitive development to the impact of health care systems and social environments.

Various CUS members are parttaking:
  • Els Veldhuizen is part of the urban dynamics and health session
  • Jan Willem Duyvendak is chairing a session on the role of care takers and employers
  • Beate Volker is parttaking in the social networks, individualism and health session
  • Joyeeta Gupta will present the GEO6 report at the healthy people, healthy planet session. 
> More information and the full programme
21 May: Bruce Springsteen and the decay of the American city
Bruce Springsteen's lyrics paint a penetrating picture of the decay of the industrial, American city. On 21 May, CUS member prof. Robert Kloosterman (economic geography) and prof. Giselinde Kuipers (sociology) will reflect upon music as source and research method for historical analysis en human geography. And they will explore how Springsteen's work illustrates the decay of the American city.

People
  • Robert C. Kloosterman, Centre for Urban Studies member, is professor of Economic Geography at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on social, economic and cultural processes of change within urban economies. 
  • Giselinde Kuipers is professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Her research centres around the fields of cultural sociology, the sociology of humor, media studies, and cultural globalization and transnational culture.
This event is in Dutch.

21 May
17.00-18.30
Spui 25
> More information and registration
We Make The City Festival
From 17 to 23 June Pakhuis de Zwijger is hosting their second edition of the We Make the City Festival. This year's edition focuses on how we can make cities for, by and from everyone. Like last year, this year various CUS members are participating in the We Make the City programme:
  • Tuna Tasan-Kok will speak on Tuesday 18 June during the Urban Conference: Minority Report; About social justice, diversity and inclusion in the city.
  • Cody Hochstenbach will take us into the Amsterdam context during the Metropolitan Conference: 'A home for everybody – affordable housing as a human right’ on 19 June.
  • Rivke Jaffe will, on Thursday 20 June, present during an Urban Talk session where examples of international and local examples of private security initiatives will be discussed.

> More information on the programme
  • On Thursday 20 June, in the morning, Arnoud Verhoeff and Zef Hemel wil partake in the Urban Conference of urban health in world cities.
  • Floris Vermeulen and Els de Graauw are organising “Governing Brooklyn - Local Politics in a Global City” with New York City Council Representative: Carlos Menchaca on 22 June
  • Michaela Hordijk and John grin are hosting their third seminar as part of an integral design project for the sustainability transition of the Amsterdam, historical inner city. This seminar, in collaboration with the municipality of Amsterdam, Waternet and Alliander will be organized during the festival.
  • Zef Hemel and Marco te Brömmelstoet will each give a lecture at the Amsterdam lecture series.  At this closing event, various UvA professors will present their ongoing research and delve into the current developments and challenges in Amsterdam.
PHD DEFENCES
Politics of urban food strategies in European cities
On 14 May from 14.00-15.00 Agnese Cretella will defend her doctoral thesis 'Between Promise and Practice. Exploring the Politics of Urban Food Strategies in European Cities'. 

All are welcome at the Agnietenkapel.
> More information
WORKING PAPER SERIES
Spatial housing-market polarization: diverging house values in the Netherlands
Housing is central in the reproduction of social inequalities. Beyond divides across populations, trends point to intensifying polarization in housing-market dynamics across space. Nonetheless, little systematic evidence exists on the spatial inequality of housing values. In this paper, Cody Hochstenbach and Rowan Arundel address this through a detailed investigation of house-value developments in the Netherlands over time and space.
> Read the paper
The suburbanization, segregation and changing geography of different forms of poverty in Dutch metropolitan regions
Recent urban studies show increasing interest in the segregation and changing geography of poor households across European and North American cities. However, these studies tend to rely on relatively crude categorizations of poor populations, despite potentially important variation within groups. In this paper, Cody Hochstenbach and Sako Musterd seek to deepen our understanding of the segregation by focusing on different types of low-income households, and their (changing) geography. More specifically, this new Working Paper differentiates between unemployed, employed and self-employed households on a low income.
> Read the paper
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