[Kaupunkitutkimus] City Lab IX Summer School: Cities and States, University of Antwerp, 10-14th July 2023 (extended deadline)

[Sampo Ruoppila]

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 Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow), Susana Neves Alves (UCL), 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.

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Stijn Oosterlynck
Full Professor in Urban Sociology
Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) (formerly OASeS)

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