'Transport, mobility and tourism' at ASAA conference - July 2012

Massimo and others at T2M have been involved in creating a T2M inspired stream 'Transport, mobility and tourism' at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), to be held in July 2012.

More details will be available in the T2M newsletter.

KNOWING ASIA: ASIAN STUDIES IN AN ASIAN CENTURY
19th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
11 to 13 July, 2012
University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Various streams including: Transport, mobility and tourism

Deadline for submissions of abstracts (individual paper or panel proposals): Tuesday 28 February, 2012

For more info: http://www.conferenceonline.com.au/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=240

Call for Papers Australian Transport Research Forum

“Shaping the Future - linking research, policy and outcomes”
35th Australian Transport Research Forum
26-28 September 2012

Perth, Australia

The theme is Shaping the Future, and there are two broad sub-themes which they are interested in: Urban Areas - catching up with population growth and Regional Areas - catching up with resources demands.

Abstracts due: 31 January 2012
Papers for review due: 1 May 2012

For more info: http://wired.ivvy.com/event/DLXB3A/

Opportunity for a T2M reunion in Sydney, Tracing the City: Methods of Analysing Urban Structures and Transformations

Opportunity for a T2M reunion in Sydney?

The International Society for Social Science Methodology, 9-13 July 2012

http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/schedConf/trackPolicies

The Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology is being held at the University of Sydney in July. They have multiple streams/tracks calling for papers covering a variety of methodological issues. Of particular interest to T2mers is the following track. Note that the deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2011.

Tracing the City. Methods of Analysing Urban Structures and Transformations

Session Convenor: Anna Laura Quermann, Technical University Darmstadt

The city is a special kind of space where people meet (to live, work, go shopping etc.). As part of the industrial revolution cities became centres of innovation and progress but also for social and spatial inequality as well as places where ethical and racial differences clash. The specific density of heterogeneous inhabitants and spaces make the urban structure an interesting field of research for social scientists. Over time many sociologists (e.g. Henri Lefebvre or fellows of the Chicago School) worked on exploring the structures of cities by using a wide range of data such as historical documents, interviews, maps, statistical data and observations. The session aims to discuss the empirical methods to research cities. Potential topics should therefore address one or more of the following questions: - Which are appropriate methods to analyse cities? - Which data are suitable for which kind of research questions and how can they be collected? How valid are results drawn from the different kind of data? - When and why is it useful to use a mixed-method or multi-method approach? And which data collection and analysing methods fit best? What are the challenges which researcher are faced with then? Papers debating general methodological questions and papers discussing specific problems using a concrete data type in a specific research project are both equally welcome.

International Conference: A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees

International Conference: A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees

Date: Friday 10 February, 2012
Where: Melbourne, Australia

Info: http://www.ssps.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects/vmr/events