[News] Fwd: Call for Session Organizers: “1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (SMUS Conference) 15 – 21.03.2021 (Deadline: 31.03.2020)

[Anne Vogelpohl]

Lieber AK,

Nina Baur von der TU Berlin bat darum, den unten stehenden Call an den 
AK Feministische Geographien weiterzuleiten. Perspektiven aus der 
Geographie sind offenbar herzlich willkommen!

Viele Grüße,
anne

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*Call for Abstracts: “1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference 
on Spatial Methods” (SMUS Conference) 23 – 26.09.2021 (Deadline: 
31.05.2021)*

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*Call for Abstracts
for the “1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial 
Methods” (SMUS Conference)
and “1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa: Botswana”
in cooperation with ESA RN21 “Quantitative Methods”
23 – 26.09.2021, Gaborone, Botswana
(Deadline: 31.05.2021)*

Dear Colleagues,

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “1st International 
and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (SMUS Conference) 
and “1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa: Botswana” in cooperation 
with ESA RN21 “Quantitative Methods” 23 – 26.09.2021, organised and 
hosted online by the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.


  About the Conference

The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS) 
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 “1^st International and 
Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (“SMUS Conference”) 
which will at the same time be the “1^st RC33 Regional Conference – 
Africa: Botswana” from Thursday 23.09 – Sunday 26.09.2021, hosted by the 
University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. Given the current 
challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will convene entirely 
*online*. The conference aims at promoting a global dialogue on methods 
and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social 
and spatial sciences (e.g. area studies, architecture, communication 
studies, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, 
humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban 
design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). 
Thus, the conference will enable scholars to get in contact with 
methodologists from various disciplines all over the world and to deepen 
discussions with researchers from various methodological angles. 
Scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are 
interested in methodological discussions are invited to submit a paper 
to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a 
methodological problem.

Please find more information on the above institutions on the following 
websites:

‒“Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS):
https://gcsmus.org <https://gcsmus.org>and 
www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods 
<http://www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods>

‒ISA RC33: http://rc33.org/ <http://rc33.org/>

‒ESA RN21: 
www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods 
<http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods>

‒University of Botswana in Gaborone: www.ub.bw <http://www.ub.bw>

If you are interested in getting *further information on the 
conference*and other GCSMUS activities, please *subscribe to the GCSMUS 
newsletter*by registering via the following website:

https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews 
<https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews>


  Conference Sessions:

1.Decolonizing Social Science Methodology – Towards African Epistemologies

2.Decolonizing Social Science Methodology – Overcoming Positivism and 
Constructivism

3.Decolonizing Methodologies and Epistemologies: Discourse Analysis and 
Sociology of Knowledge

4.Culturally Sensitive Approaches for the Global South – Potential New 
Directions of Empirical Research

5.Critical Conversations on Bagele Chilisa’s Indigenous Research 
Methodologies

6.Policy Analysis and Political Economy

7.Researching the History of Postcolonial States with Qualitative Methods

8.Hermeneutics ‒ Interaction ‒ Social Structure

9.Interpretative and Multi-Method Approaches to Global-South-Migration

10.Process-Oriented Micro-Macro-Analysis

11.City Networks between the Structural and the Everyday: Methods that 
Bridge Macro- and Micro-Perspectives for a Better Comparative 
Understanding of Cities

12.Methodologies for the Investigation Spatial Transformation Processes

13.Human Centric Approaches on Urban Futures

14.Methods of Architectural Research

15.Art and Design Based-Research, Cross-Disciplinary Approaches for 
Material Knowledge Production

16.The Contribution of Urban Design to the Qualitative Methodology Discourse

17.Mapping for Change? Resituating 'Slow Time'. Craftwo/manship and Power

18.Applying Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Urban Sustainability 
Projects

19.The Role of ‘Productive Interactions’ between Researchers and 
Stakeholders in Creating Rigorous and Relevant Research for Urban 
Sustainability

20.Knowledge Creation in Informal Settlements: The Process, Ethics and 
Outputs of Co-Productive and Community-Led Research Methods

21.Fieldwork in the Global South – Shedding Light into the Black Box

22.Survey Data Quality in Interviewer-Administered Surveys in LMIC Contexts

23.Assessing the Quality of Survey Data

24.Digital Methods in Action: Use, Challenges and Prospects

25.Researching Climate Change Communication: Methodological Challenges 
and Opportunities in the Digital Era

26.Money and Digitalisation in the Global South

27.Methods in Food Studies Research

28.Locating the Religious/Secular in Africa: Methodological Challenges 
Conveners

29.Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas of Social Research in Violent 
Conflict Situations


  Submission of Papers

All sessions have to comply with the conference organization rules (see 
below). If you want to present a paper, please submit your abstract via 
the official conference website: https://gcsmus.org 
<https://gcsmus.org>between 20.02.2021 and 31.05.2021. You will be 
informed by 31.07.2021, if your proposed paper has been accepted for 
presentation at the conference. For further information, please see the 
conference website or contact the session organizers.

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/Conference Organizers/:
Gabriel Faimau (University of Botswana, Botswana) and Nina Baur (TU 
Berlin, Germany)

/Botswana Organizing Team/: Gabriel Faimau, Sethunya Mosime, France 
Maphosa, Godisang Mookodi, Ikanyeng Malila, Gwen Lesetedi, Latang 
Sechele, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando


  Rules for Session Organization (According to GCSMUS Objectives and RC
  33 Statutes)

1.There will be no conference fees.

2.The conference language is English. All papers therefore need to be 
presented in English.

3.All sessions have to be international: Each session should have 
speakers from at least two countries (exceptions will need good reasons).

4.Each paper must contain a methodological problem (any area, 
qualitative or quantitative).

5.There will be several calls for abstracts via the GCSMUS, RC33 and 
RN21 Newsletters. To begin with, session organizers can prepare a call 
for abstracts on their own initiative, then at a different time, there 
will be a common call for abstracts, and session organizers can ask 
anybody to submit a paper.

6.GCSMUS, RC33 and RN21 members may distribute these calls via other 
channels. GCSMUS members and session organizers are expected to actively 
advertise their session in their respective scientific communities.

7.Speakers can only have one talk per session. This also applies for 
joint papers. It will not be possible for A and B to present at the same 
time one paper as B and A during the same session. This would just 
extend the time allocated to these speakers.

8.Session organizers may present a paper in their own session.

9.Sessions will have a length of 90 minutes with a maximum of 4 papers 
or a length of 120 minutes with a maximum of 6 papers. Session 
organizers can invite as many speakers as they like. The number of 
sessions depends on the number of papers submitted to each session. E.g. 
if 12 good papers are submitted to a session, there will be two sessions 
with a length of 90 minutes each with 6 papers in each session.

10.Papers may only be rejected for the conference if they do not present 
a methodological problem (as stated above), are not in English or are 
somehow considered by session organizers as not being appropriate or 
relevant for the conference. Session organizers may ask authors to 
revise and resubmit their paper so that it fits these requirements. If 
session organizers do not wish to consider a paper submitted to their 
session, they should inform the author and forward the paper to the 
local organizing team who will find a session where the paper fits for 
presentation.

11.Papers directly addressed to the conference organising committee (and 
those forwarded from session organizers) will be offered to other 
session organizers (after proofing for quality). The session organizers 
will have to decide on whether or not the paper can be included in their 
session(s). If the session organizers think that the paper does not fit 
into their session(s), the papers should be sent back to the conference 
organizing committee as soon as possible so that the committee can offer 
the papers to another session organizer.

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