York University Professor Roger Keil has issued a call for papers for an RC21 Conference panel entitled “Disasters, Pandemics, and the Global City: Vulnerability and Risk in the Contemporary Urban Region.” Keil is organizing the panel and invites papers that deal with the consequences of disasters and pandemics on urban regions in diverse areas, including governance, social movements, urban political ecology, and urban health.
Abstracts should be limited to 150 words and include name, affiliation, and address.Send paper titles and abstracts to session Keil at rkeil@yorku.ca and ISARC21 Tokyo Conference Organizing Committee at rc21-tokyo@mbe.nifty.com by May 15, 2008.
More information on the conference and related panels can be found at http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jarcs/main/bulletin/files/ISARC21_call_paper.pdf.