[Kaupunkitutkimus] City Lab IX: Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship, University of Antwerp, 10-14th July 2023

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Lähettäjä: Stijn Oosterlynck <stijn.oosterlynck at uantwerpen.be>
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Aihe: City Lab IX: Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship,
University of Antwerp, 10-14th July 2023
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*City Lab IX: **Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship,
University of Antwerp, 10-14th July 2023*



Cities and nation states have historically maintained a complicated
relationship. In the late Middle Ages, notably in Europe, cities and states
were competing to become the dominant entity through which society is
politically organized and governed. At the same time, cities and the modern
political institutions they nurtured served as building blocks for
nation-state formation.



While over the past two centuries cities were effectively ‘caged’ within
national (welfare) states, since the 1980s, global societal trends like
economic globalization, migration and climate change are eroding national
boundaries and loosening the political control of national states over
their territories and populations. Moreover, policy trends like devolution
and subsidiarization are redistributing the state’s regulatory capacity and
responsibilities towards regions and municipalities.



All these socio-political processes provide actors in cities more autonomy
to pursue their own strategies and interests locally as well as nationally
and internationally with regard to societal challenges such as poverty,
diversity, climate change, democracy and culture.



In this *interdisciplinary summer school*, we aim to bring junior and
senior scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore and discuss the
how, when and why of the evolving and complicated relationships between
cities and states. The summer school is open to PhD and post-doctoral
researchers from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities who
are interested in and/or work on shifting city-state relations today as
well as in the (historical) past.



The summer school consists of lectures by international as well as
Antwerp-based scholars, high profile urban politicians and urban
professionals in the field of city-state relations. Amongst the confirmed
speakers are Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po, Paris), Patrick Lantscher (UCL,
London), Iolanda Bianchi (UA, Antwerp), Maarten Prak (Universiteit Utrecht,
Utrecht) and Côme Salvaire (Sciences Po, Paris). There will be ample
opportunity for participants to present their ongoing research on the topic
and get feedback from other participants and senior scholars.





Your application
<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter-schools/citylab-ix-urban-studies/application-deadline/>
for the CityLAB IX summer school should be submitted before* 16 April 2023* *if
you need a visa* to travel to Belgium. This is because the visa application
procedure can take more than a month. The *general deadline* for the
CityLAB IX summer school is *30 April 2023*. More information on the summer
school can be found here
<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter-schools/citylab-ix-urban-studies/application-deadline/>
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Stijn Oosterlynck

Full Professor in Urban Sociology

Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) (formerly
OASeS)



Member of the board of the Antwerp Urban Studies Institute -
http://www.uantwerpen.be/urban-studies-institute

Scientific Director Hannah Arendt Institute for Diversity, Urbanity and
Citizenship -
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Project Coordinator of Marie Curie International Training Network SOLiDi
(2020-2023) - https://www.solidi.eu/



Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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