Call for Papers

Digital platforms for urban tourism have not only given much more visibility to urban tourism itself but are also fueling its impact on urban policies, neighbourhoods and everyday lives. Housing rentals, for example through Airbnb, change the relationship between tourists and locals, guests and hosts and add a new dimension to the commodification of residential housing, leading to unanticipated and rapid transformations of entire neighborhoods. It is timely to recognize that urban tourism is useful as a lens to explore broader processes of urban change. In the recent debate, symptoms like increasing housing prices, an increasing focus on the exchange value for an increasing percentage of housing stock driven by digital platforms for short-term rentals are receiving much attention. However, we are convinced that it is time to move beyond the phenomenon of housing rentals and the buzzword sharing economy and to address the combination of urban politics, urban tourism and everyday (urban) realities that are reshaping and reshaped by this specific aspect of urban tourism. The digital platform is the interface between agents that barter for residential accommodation that has previously not been traded as a tourist commodity. These aspects have received relatively little systematic attention and analysis. We are missing comparative perspectives (e.g. cross-city comparison), in-depth studies on Airbnb and gentrification, displacement, and agency across social groups that engage and are affected by increasing Airbnb rental activities.

In irregular intervals since the opening of the "iron curtain" the annual meeting of the German Geomorphology Working Group (AK Geomorphologie) has been held as "Central European Geomorphology Conference". The 4th conference will be hosted by the University of Bayreuth from 9 to 13 October, 2017, including two days excursions into the Bavarian-Bohemian Geopark. "From surface to core – and back. A geodynamic view on Earth’s surface" has been chosen as guiding theme, aiming to bring together geomorphologists, geoscientists and geoecologists at the cutting edge of research. A number of keynote and invited lectures is designated as well as extended allocated periods for poster sessions for the seven anticipated sessions. The public evening lecture by Leibniz prize awardee Prof. Dr. Dan Frost (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth) presents recent research on the challenging question "How can diamonds come to the earth’s surface?"

VGI-Analytics 2017 is the 4th workshop in a series of AGILE pre-conference workshops Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday lives over the past few years. Whereas in the early beginnings of crowd-sourced data the collection occurred primarily to isolated, individual platforms, contribution patterns are now beginning to be more intertwined between different platforms, both at the application level and at the user side. This means that crowd-sourcing applications nowadays begin to offer opportunities to share data between them during data collection and contribution processes, for example, by tweeting an Instagram image or by viewing a Mapillary image layer while editing OpenStreetMap data.

CfP zum Jahrestreffen des AK Geographische Wohnungsmarktforschung am 15./16. Juni 2017 an der Universität Luxemburg, Esch/Belval (Luxemburg): Internationalisierung des Wohnens - Marktentwicklung, Politiken, Forschungsansätze. Der aktuelle Trend zur Internationalisierung von Wohnimmobilien- bzw. Mietwohnungsmärkten schlägt sich u.a. in veränderten Angebotsstrukturen, neuen Finanzierungsmodellen sowie innovativen Stadtentwicklungsstrategien nieder.

Einladung zur 35. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Klima der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie Freitag, 04.11. bis Sonntag, 06.11.2016 Bad Dürkheim   Inhalte: Die Jahrestagung des AK Klima richtet sich an alle, die sich wissenschaftlich mit aktuellen Fragen der Klimatologie und Meteorologie…

Jahrestreffen des AK Geographische Wohnungsmarktforschung am 15. und 16. September 2016 in Bonn Arbeitskreis Wohnungsmarktforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie

9. Tagung und zehnjähriges Jubiläum des Katastrophennetzes am 13. und 14.09.2016, Universität Osnabrück. Immer seltener reicht der Verweis auf höhere Mächte, das Schicksal oder Naturgewalten, wenn eine Katastrophe zu beklagen ist; immer häufiger werden die Ursachen in Fehlentwicklungen und menschlichem (Fehl-)Verhalten vor Katastropheneintritt gesucht.

It is a pleasure to invite you to participate in a call for papers for the Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America, to take place in Rio de Janeiro during November 10-12 this year. Abstracts should respond to one of the six thematic sessions organized for the event

38th Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries. Canada, over the last several decades, has become not only a highly urbanized country but, in fact, “an overwhelmingly suburban nation” (Bourne 1991: 25, emphasis added).

This workshop speaks to an ever-growing interest in and engagement with non-representational theory in human geography. Hayden Lorimer (2005: 84) offers a broad summarisation of non-representational theory/geographies (NRT)’s intentions: “The focus falls on how life takes shape and gains expression…

International Conference Announcement From CONTESTED_CITIES to Global Urban Justice Critical Dialogue   The CONTESTED_CITIES conference will be a forum of radical academics, practitioners and activists from different theoretical, disciplinary and geographical backgrounds coming together to probe the multiple forms of…

Epistemologische Herausforderungen gemeinsamen Forschens in transregionalen Zusammenhängen   3. bis 5. Dezember 2015, Goethe Universität Frankfurt   Die gegenwärtige Forschungslandschaft fördert und fordert geteilte Forschung: intensive Zusammenarbeit in Forschergruppen, gemeinsame Publikationen, interdisziplinäre und transnationale Kooperationen. Trotzdem sind das Selbstverständnis und…