Centre for urban research
COSMOPOLIS. City, Culture
& Society

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COSMOPOLIS is related to the department of Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a member of the UAB Urban Studies Network, an interdisciplinary research and teaching network in urban studies.
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Calendar


12/10/2011 - 17:00
Urban Movie 2: La Haine
Cinematek, Brussels

21/10/2011
Brussel en de literatuur
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

26/10/2011 - 17:00
Urban Movie 3: 24 hour party people
Cinematek, Brussels

4/11/11 - 9:00-17:30
5th annual conference UAB Urban Studies Network: Securité et qualité de vie urbaine: Le cas de Bruxelles (NL-EN-FR)
GC De Markten, Brussels

09/11/2011 - 17:00
Urban Movie 4: Bread and roses
Cinematek, Brussels

23/11/2011 - 17:00
Urban Movie 5: Les Barons
Cinematek, Brussels

29/11/2011
European Trail - Re-thinking Realities | Europe as an Agora of Interactions
European Parliament, Brussels



Past activities:

28/9/2011 - 17:00
Urban Movie 1: Metropolis
Cinematek, Brussels

03/09/2011 - 9:00-18:00
Brussels Summer University
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels


24/05/2011
"From Penser la Ville to Faire le Ville. Unraveling Brussel(i)s(ation)"

14/12/2010
Lecture: The effects of the global financial and environmental crisis on world cities

10/12/2010
Book presentation: AGGLOMERER: Une anatomie de l’extension bruxelloise (1828-1915)
Dr. Benedikte Zitouni (COSMOPOLIS -VUB)

7/10/2010
Kanal Education Meeting
meeting for students from all participating institutions

4/06/2010
Conference: Newcomers and the city, challenges for Brussels
Anne Winter (HIST-VUB), Patrick Deboosere, (DEMO-VUB), Ilke Adam (IES-VUB), Henri Goldman (Editor in chief Migrations|Magazine), Helga De Valk (DEMO-VUB), Neepa Acharya (IES-VUB), Isabelle Carles (ULB), Bruno De Lille (state secretary for equal opportunities - Brussels Capital Region), Eric de Jonge (director BON), Frédérique Mawet (director CIRE), Brigid Grauman (ex-editor in chief The Bulletin), Karel Arnaut (UGent)

3/6/2010
Reading seminar: Are there national models of immigrant integration? A political sociology perspective
Dr. Ilke Adam (IES)

31/5/2010
Research seminar: vormen van stadsgebruik
Paul Blondeel (Stadsstudio)

25/5/2010
PhD seminar: Gender, Culture & Space

20/5/2010
Research seminar: Beyond national models of integration. Immigrant integration policies in the Belgian regions
Dr. Ilke Adam (IES - VUB)

6/5/2010
Reading seminar: Diversity: source of urbanity or destroyer of social trust and community? American perspectives
Dr. Alison Woodard (IES - VUB)

22/4/2010
Research seminar: Language and migration. A multicultural reality in a bilingual straitjacket
Dr. Rudi Janssens (BRIO - VUB)

1/4/2010
Reading seminar: A follow up of the Chicago School of sociology: assimilation theory
Prof. Dr. Helga De Valk (DEMO - VUB)

25/3/2010
Research seminar: Brussels!
Prof. Dr. Eric Corijn & Eefje Vloeberghs (COSMOPOLIS - VUB)

11/3/2010
Reading seminar: Political philosophers on ‘multiculturalism’
Gily Coene (RHEA - VUB)

25/3/2010
Research seminar: Migrants and urban change. Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860
Dr. Anne Winter (HOST-VUB)

11/2/2010
Reading seminar: Classical sociologists on integration
Prof. Dr. Patrick Stouthuysen (POLI -VUB)

28/1/2010
Master Class & Public Lecture: Liquid Migration in European Societies
Prof. Dr. Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

8/1/2010
PhD defense: 'La croissance d’une agglomération urbaine. Bruxelles vue à travers ses archives (1828-1915)' by Benedikte Zitouni

14/10/2009
Workshop: Cities & Migration

17/6/2009
Workshop: Migration & Integration

30/4/2009
International conference: iBrussels Ken Ducatel (DG Info Society)
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Aurigi (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape The Quadrangle - Newcastle University), Prof. Dr. Leo an Audenhove (SMIT-VUB), Prof. Dr. Jan Cornelis (ETRO-VUB), Prof. Dr. Timo Ojala (Oulu University, Helsinky) Philippe Roy (Capdigital, Paris), Chris Price (Westmidlands, Birmingham

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Vacancy: Assistant/Associate Professor Economic Geography
A tenured full/time position in economic geography is available at COSMOPOLIS (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) to begin October 2012.

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