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RC21 2024: Call for Sessions is open!

The next RC 21 Conference will take place in Santiago, Chile, on July 24-26th, 2024! Deadline for session proposals: September 30, 2023

Protected: Board Elections 2023: Candidates

RC21 is holding board elections. Read the candidate statements and their CVs.

RC21 Board nominations: send your candidate proposals!

We open the nomination process for nine members of the Board of RC21. If you’d like to become a Board member (or would like to nominate someone), please send your candidate proposals by April 30th

Cast your vote: RC21 President elections

The Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC21) of the ISA needs to renew its presidency for the period 2023-2027

ISA Membership grants

ISA has opened a call for membership grants to become a regular ISA member. RC21 has the possibility to allocate 8 grants for students! Application deadline: November 20, 2022

Call for candidates: RC21 President

Any member in good standing who has served for at least one term as a board member of RC21 may be a candidate for the position of President

Introductory comments by the RC21 President

Introductory comments by Talja Blokland, RC21 President, at the RC21 2022 Conference in Athens “Ordinary Cities in Exceptional Times”

ISA 2023 Call for abstracts

ISA 2023 Call for abstracts open until 30 September 2022. The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology will take place in Melbourne in 2023 (25 June-1 July).

Board Elections 2022: Candidates

RC 21 is holding elections for three board seats. Here you can read the candidate statements and their CVs

Obituary: Professor Licia do Prado Valladares (1946-2021)

Licia was a pioneer in the study of favelas, housing policies and socio-spatial inequalities in Brazil at the end of the 1960s.

Obituary: Professor Chris Pickvance (1944-2021)

Chris Pickvance, who has died after a short illness at the age of 77, played a pivotal role in the establishment of today’s global network of urban and regional research.

RC21Athens: Call for Papers is now open!

Deadline: January 31, 2022. Check out the conference webpage for information and guidelines: https://pcoconvin.eventsair.com/rc21/call-for-abstracts

RC21 in Athens: Deadline extended

We have received many promising proposals already, but if you missed our deadline: submission has been extended to November 7th!

RC21 2022 in Athens: Call for Sessions

We are launching the call for sessions for our next conference in Athens, Ordinary cities in exceptional times (24-26 August 2022). Please submit your proposals by October 31, 2021 to the conference website www.rc21athens2022.com

Call for papers: RC21 Conference in Antwerp

Second call for papers for the RC21 Conference in Antwerp (July 14-16, 2021): submit your abstracts via the online form by December 2, 2020! If your abstract has been accepted before, you do not need to resubmit.

Call for Venues for the 2021 RC21 Conference and Doctoral School!

These conferences are organized by local teams in close collaboration with the RC21 Board. Please send proposals to Marc Pradel at marcpradel@ub.edu no later than February 20th, 2020.

RC21 Antwerp: Call for Sessions

RC21 Antwerp Call for Sessions: the deadline is November 30, 2019!
Please check the Conference website for important dates and submission guidelines!

RC21 2020 goes to Antwerp!

The 2020 RC21 Conference ‘Sensing and Shaping the City’ will take place in Antwerp, 6 to 8 July 2020! Calls for sessions is open until 30 November 2019

Obituary: Anne Haila

On September 21 2019, with Prof Dr Anne Haila, a long-standing member of RC21, former member of the Board of RC21 and former Board member of IJURR, another inspiring colleague, beloved friend and excellent teacher for many in the RC21 community, has passed away.

6th RC21-IJURR Doctoral School in Comparative Urban Studies in Delhi!

Call for applications for the 6th RC21-IJURR Doctoral School in Comparative Urban Studies is now open! The School will take place in Delhi, India, 7-21 September 2019.

Call for Abstracts: Delhi 2019 Conference!

Please send submissions to the convener(s) and cc your submission to rc21delhi@gmail.com. Please send individual abstracts, which may not fit in the selected sessions but relate to wider themes and sub-themes of the conference, to rc21delhi@gmail.com. Selected papers will be notified by 20th February 2019.

Sophie Body-Gendrot (1942-2018)

On September 21, Prof Dr Sophie Body-Gendrot, a long-standing member of RC21 and inspiring colleague, beloved friend and excellent teacher for many in the RC21 community, has passed away after an illness. We have asked Professor Enzo Mingione (University of Milano-Bicocca), Professor Marisol García (University of Barcelona), Adrian Favell (University of Leeds), and Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po) who knew Sophie Body-Gendrot for many years, to share their memories and appraisal of Sophie Body-Gendrot. With her passing away, we have lost a highly inspiring scholar, generous with support for younger scholars, and a strong influence in urban studies.

The Delhi 2019 Conference web site is online!

RC21 Conference@Delhi (September 18 – 21, 2019): In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures. Call for sessions is now open!

Save the date! RC21 Delhi Conference 18-21 September, 2019

Conference theme: In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures

RC21 at the ISA Congress in Toronto

We would like to welcome all of you who will be attending next week’s ISA conference here in Toronto. This post contains some information on activities in relation to the RC21 specific part of the ISA conference and on Visiting Toronto.

RC21 Institutional Documents Updated

You can find RC21 Institutional documents – Procedures for Board Members and President Selection, Statutes, etc., here.

Travel Grants for Young Scholars (ISA Congress in Toronto)

The RC21 in collaboration with ISA is offering 2 grants of $ 500 (US dollars) and 4 grants of $ 250 (US dollars) for young scholars presenting a paper or chairing a session at the next Rc21 Conference in Toronto.

Terms of Reference for the Organization of the RC21 Conference and Summer School

Terms of reference outline the tasks involved in the organization and the responsibilities of the local organizing team and of RC21.

Motion by the Board

Motion by the Board in support of freedom of thought, speech and academic production and in solidarity with urban academics at risk; it was discussed and approved at the RC21 Conference in Leeds, September 2017

ISA Congress in Toronto: Deadline for abstract submission is September, 30!

In July 2018 we will meet at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto. RC21 sessions at the Congress were already submitted, now it is time to select paper proposals. Check out the RC21 Sessions lineup

2017 Summer School

5th Summer School on Comparative Urban Studies, was held in London and Leeds (UK) from 30 August to 13 September 2017 (in conjunction with the RC21 Conference)

Call for Papers – Leeds Conference

Leeds RC21 Conference Call for Papers is out! Take a look at this brilliant line of sessions. March 10, 2017, is the deadline for abstract submission. We are also receiving the session proposals for the ISA Congress!

2017 RC21 Conference in Leeds: Website is online

Visit the Conference Website for updates and important information!

RC21 Conference 2017: Call for Sessions!

The deadline for session proposals is December 31, 2016. RC21 Conference 2017 “Rethinking Urban Global Justice” will take place in the University of Leeds, 11-13th September 2017

Next RC21 Conference: 11-13 September 2017

The next RC21 Conference will take place in Leeds, UK, on 11-13 September 2017. Call for session proposals is now open (Deadline: December, 31)

RC21 Board: Public Statement on the political events in Turkey

The board of the Research Committee 21 of the International Sociological Association makes public its rejection of the recent political events in Turkey. Our solidarity goes with this statement to the Turkish people and to its academic community, especially attacked in its autonomy, independence and even its basic civil rights.

Past Conferences: 2016 Conference Program

Information on the past RC21 Conferences is available under the “Conferences” section of the menu

RC21 Conference 2016: Thank you, Mexico City!

The RC21 Conference in Mexico City was a success, with 26 streams and 200 presentations, participants discussed what is the “transgressive city” and its consequences for governance.

Past Conferences: 2016 Call for Proposals

Information on the past RC21 Conferences is available under the “Conferences” section of the menu

Past Conferences: Call for Stream Proposals

The Conference theme in 2016 is: “The transgressive city: Comparative perspectives on governance and the possibilities of everyday life in the emerging global city”. Conference dates: July 21-23, 2016. Please send your stream proposals before November 30, 2015

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