3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference)

by James Brasuell · 07/07/2022

3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference)

Summary :

The Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee is hosting the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) from February 20th to 26th, 2023. The conference will focus on methods in social and spatial sciences such as anthropology, geography, urban planning, and psychology. The program will include keynotes, sessions, and methodological training courses. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts addressing a methodological problem. The conference aims to continue the global dialogue on methods and attract methodologists from all over the world.

Description :

Country:India

Date Posted:
July 7, 2022

Organiser:IIT Roorkee (India)

Event Dates: 20/02/2023

Event Information and Important Details

Event Fields	Details
Event	3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference)
Core Theme	Conference Sessions: 1. Co-Production (of Knowledge) as Pathway to Decolonization of Knowledge in the Global South 2. Decolonizing Social Science Methodology 3. Fieldwork in the Global South – Shedding Light into the Black Box 4. Assessing the Quality of Survey Data 5. Comparing Social Survey Data Collected During a Global Crisis? The Uncertainty of Comparative Research 6. Culturally Sensitive Approaches – Potential New Directions of Empirical Research 7. Application of Quantitative Techniques in Spatial Analysis 8. Ethnography as Spatial-Temporal Method 9. Ethnographic Methods: Constructing Public Space 10. Visualizing Urban Nature: Ethnographic Approaches and Explorations 11. Multimodal Data Integration for Spatial Research 12. How Modality Matters? Learning from the Multiplicity of (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches 13. Discourse Analysis, Historical Analysis and Biographical Research: Multi-Method Approaches in Interpretive Empirical Research 14. The Individual and the City: Urban Life Stories 15. Measuring Change in Urban Space(s) 16. The Longue Durée in the 21st-Century Social Sciences: Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Long-Term Social Processes 17. Design Methods for Accessibility and Social Inclusion 18. Applying Spatial Methods in Homelessness Studies: Methodological and Ethical Challenges 19. Analysing Hidden Forms of Violence and their Spatialities: The Methodological Challenges of the Research on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexualized Violence 20. Spatial Methods in Healthcare Research 21. Methods of Transnational Organisational and Economic Research 22. Methods for Studying the Spatial Dimension of Global Digital Infrastructures 23. Digitalization, Political Participation and Transformation in the Global South 24. Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Community-Oriented Approaches in Human Behavior 25. Spatial Methods in Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability 26. Methodological Overlaps, Misunderstandings and Conflicts between Spatial Planning and Social Sciences
Organiser	IIT Roorkee (India)
Country	India
City	Roorkee
Mode	Offline
Event dates	20/02/2023
Registration Fees

Event Poster

Event Description

The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS or SMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize a 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) from Monday, February 20th, to Sunday, February 26th, 2023. The six-day conference aims at continuing a global dialogue on methods and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e. g. anthropology, area studies, architecture, communication studies, computational sciences, digital humanities, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). The conference programme will include keynotes, sessions and advanced methodological training courses. With this intention, we invite scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested in methodological discussions to suggest an abstract to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a methodological problem.

Important dates

Event Date: 20/02/2023

sources:
1- melk360.com ,3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) ,2022-07-07 10:31:41
2- https://urbandesignlab.in/conference/3rd-international-and-interdisciplinary-conference-on-spatial-methods-for-urban-sustainability-smus-conference/?rand=2017