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

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