The 9th meeting of the Summer Institute was hosted by the Department of Geography at Ghent University, Belgium, July 8-13, 2018.

The Ghent meeting was organized by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, Jamie Peck, and Christian Berndt.

This event was generously supported by:

  • Universiteit Gent
  • Economic Geography/Clark University
  • Environment & Planning A: Economy and space

 

Featured speakers

Jennifer ClarkJennifer Clark 

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy; Director, Center for Urban Innovation  
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA


Andrés Rodríguez-PoseAndrés Rodríguez-Pose

Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Environment  
London School of Economics, UK


Michael SammersMichael Samers

Professor of Economic and Urban Geography, Department of Geography  
University of Kentucky, USA


Kendra StraussKendra Strauss 

Associate Professor and Director, Labour Studies Program; Associate Member, Department of Geography  
Simon Fraser University, Canada


Erik Swyngedouw 

Professor of Geography, School of Education, Environment and Development  
University of Manchester, UK


Attendees

Alami, Ilias - University of Manchester, UK

Anguelov, Dimitar - UCLA, USA

Banoub, Daniel - Memorial University, Canada

Bernhold, Christin - University of Zurich, Switzerland

Boda, Chad - Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden

Bryant, Gareth - University of Sydney, Australia

Chen, Wanjing (Kelly) - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Davies, Carina Lucila - Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina

Dorodjatoen, Agung Mahesa Himawan - University of Western Australia, Australia

Farahani, Ilia - Lund University, Sweden

Gong, Huiwen - Kiel University, Germany

Han, Xiao - University of Melbourne, Australia

Jiang, Wenjing - Clark University, USA

Lawreniuk, Sabina - Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Lenz, Regina - Heidelberg University, Germany

Montero, Sergio - Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Morales-Arcila, Diana Carolina - Newcastle University, UK

Planey, Donald - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Prouse, Carolyn - University of Toronto, Canada

Reid-Musson, Emily - University of Waterloo, Canada

Rolf, Steven - University of Bristol, UK

Sariego-Kluge, Laura - Newcastle University, UK

Sibilia, Elizabeth - City University of New York, USA

Simone, Dylan - University of Toronto, Canada

Smyth, Araby - University of Kentucky, USA

Solheim Wilhelmsen, Marte Cecilie - University of Stavanger, Norway

Storme, Tom - Ghent University, Belgium

Tapp, Renee - Clark University, USA

Teixeira, Tiago - Syracuse University, USA

Thatcher, Jim - University of Washington-Tacoma, USA

Urban, Michael - University of Oxford, UK USA

Ward, Callum - KU Leuven, Belgium

Werner, Deborah - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wong, Alexander - University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Zhang, Yueming - University of Birmingham, UK