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   CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
   ORGANISED 

     Workshop on Multisensory Landscape Research

Dates: 5-6 July 2014
Place: Suzhou (China)
Chief organiser: Werner Breitung
Funding: Research Development Fund of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

In connection with the project on multisensory landscape perception, this workshop brought together 16 scholars from well-known Chinese research institutes (Academy of Science, Peking University, Nanjing University, Tongji University and others) to discuss different ways of considering multiple senses in research on landscape perception, landscape assessment and human-nature interaction. The programme included a very memorable session held in one of the historical Suzhou gardens. 

     Seminar on Regional and Spatial Planning in Germany and China

Dates: 19-23 August 2012
Place: Assmannshausen (Germany)
Chief organisers: Werner Breitung and Joseph Nipper (University of Cologne)
Funding: Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion (Beijing): DFG and NSFC

Thanks to the very generous funding of the Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion and the collaboration with Prof. Nipper of University of Cologne we could invite 30 professors and practitioners of urban and regional planning from Germany, mainland China and Hong Kong to exchange experiences and approaches regarding regional planning and national-level spatial ordering. The meeting took place in the beautiful Rhein Valley, which allowed some of the participants to stay for the subsequent IGU meetings in Dortmund and Cologne.

     Workshop on Borders and Cross-border Cooperation in the Pearl River Delta

Dates: 26-27 March 2011
Place: Guangzhou (China)
Chief organiser: Werner Breitung
Funding: Association of Borderlands Studies; Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies (HKBU)

Colleagues from Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou were joined by E. Brunet-Jailly (Canada) and C.T. Wu (Australia) to discuss issues of borders and cross-border cooperation in the Pearl River Delta and to connect regional experiences to international academic debates on border theory. The 18 attendants represented very different disciplines such as history, geography, public administration, sociology, architecture and tourism management. The atmospheric highlight of the programme was an evening meeting in the historical Tayinglou at the shore of the Pearl River.
 

     Conference of Geography Alumni from German Universities in China

Dates: 18-20 November 2009
Place: Guangzhou (China)
Chief organiser: Werner Breitung
Funding: German Academic Exchange Agency (DAAD)

With the generous support of the DAAD, numerous Chinese alumni from German universities in the fields of geography and urban studies were identified and invited to Guangzhou. About 40 of them followed the invitation. They listened to welcome speaches by the German Consul General and representatives of DAAD and Sun Yatsen University and to presentations by Prof. Zeng Gang (East China Normal University), Prof. Rüdiger Glaser (Uni Freiburg) and Prof. Zhao Miaogen (Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion), and they participated in working groups. This conference has established many new contacts and several follow-up meetings among scholars with similar backgrounds, which may help addressing the problem of lacking networks which is faced by many returning scholars.  
 

     International Conference on Cities and Borders

Dates: 3-5 August 2007
Place: Macau
Chief organiser: Werner Breitung
Funding: Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government; The University of Macau

The International Conference on Cities and Borders in Macau was scheduled right before the IGU Urban Commission Meeting in Guangzhou. It was sponsored by the urban and political geography commissions of the IGU, by the School of Geography and Planning and the School of Tourism of Sun Yatsen University. The University of Macau provided the venue and organisational support, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macau government covered the costs for inviting three keynote speakers: David Newman (Israel), James Sidaway (Singapore) and Doris Wastl-Walter (Switzerland).   Part of the conference were also a public forum, an academic roundtable and fieldtrips to historical Macau, to the Macau-Zhuhai border and to Guangzhou.
Go to conference website 

   CO-ORGANISED

     IGU Urban Commission Meeting: Governing Globalising Cities

Dates: 15-20 August 2016
Place: Shanghai (China)
Chief organisers: Ning Yuemin (Shanghai), Céline Rosenblat (Lausanne), He Shenjing (Hong Kong)
Conference websites: www.igu-urban.com, http://igushanghai.ecnu.edu.cn

The annual meeting of the IGU Urban Commission was divided between the sessions during the 33rd International Geographical Congress in Beijing and urban geography pre-conference at East China Normal University in Shanghai. The Shanghai meeting had 129 participants (roughly half from China, half from 30 other countries). 115 papers were presented in 24 thematic sessions. Keynote speekers: Fulong Wu (UCL) and Allan Scott (UCLA).
Fieldtrip to Suzhou on 20 August 2016 

     IGU Urban Commission Meeting

Dates: 6-12 August 2007
Place: Guangzhou (China)
Chief organisers: Xue Desheng (Guangzhou), Gerhard Braun (Berlin)
Conference website: www.igu-urban.com 

The annual meeting of the IGU Urban Commission took place at the School of Geography and Planning of Sun Yatsen University in Guangzhou. The meeting had xxx participants from xx countries). I organised a pre-conference and a fieldtrip from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau.