Conference Presentations

* Denotes Keynote/Plenary/Invited

* Harrison J 2012 In what sense a new non-state space? Globalization, the politics of rescaling, and the new politics of city-regionalism. APSA annual meeting, 29 August-2 September, New Orleans, USA.

Harrison J 2012 Looking beyond the neighbourhood: placing neighbourhood-working within the Coalition’s localist framework. RGS annual conference, 3-5 July, Edinburgh, UK.

Harrison J 2012 City-region: Atlantic Gateway. RSA international conference, 13-16 May, Delft, Netherlands.

Harrison J 2012 Constructing city-regions: exploring the (in)compatibility of networked and territorial planning and governance arrangements. AAG annual conference. 24-28 February, New York, USA.

Harrison J and Growe A 2011 From places to flows? Planning for the new ‘regional world’ in Germany. Regional Studies Association winter conference, 25 November, London, UK.

* Harrison J 2011 Planning for the new ‘regional world’: on being caught between territory and networks, Joint research seminar, 4 October, Departments of Planning and Landscape/Geography, University of Manchester, UK.

Harrison J 2011 City region: Atlantic Gateway, RGS-IBG annual conference, 31 August-2 September, London, UK.

* Harrison J 2011 Planning for the new ‘regional world’: on being caught between territory and networks, Polycentric Urban Regions – The Region as Planning Space, Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Academy for Spatial Research and Planning), 22-24 June, Dortmund, Germany. 

Harrison J 2011 Configuring the new ‘regional world’: on being caught between territory and networks, 17-20 April, RSA international conference, Newcastle, UK.

* Harrison J 2011 Life after regions: the evolution of city-regionalism in England, Research seminar, 12 January, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.

* Harrison J 2010 City-regions as key sites for economic development, Shaping our Region: An Opportunity to Think Together, City-Region Study Centre/Capital Region Board, 25 June, Edmonton, Canada.

* Harrison J 2010 Life after regions: the evolution of city-regionalism in England, Theorising Regional Development: the theoretical background of new concepts in Regional Studies - Lessons for the Periphery, 10 May, CURDS, Newcastle, UK.

Harrison J 2010 Neither here nor there: the evolution of city-regionalism in England, AAG annual conference, 13-18 April, Washington DC, USA

Harrison J 2009 Reconfiguring the Regional State in Economic Governance, RGS-IBG annual conference, 26-28 August, Manchester, UK.

* Harrison J 2009 Flows and networks: city-regions in Europe, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 3 April, Lyon, France.

Harrison J 2009 Networks of Connectivity, Territorial Fragmentation, Uneven Development: Unpacking the Politics of City Regionalism, AAG annual conference, 22-27 March, Las Vegas, USA.

* Harrison J and Sidaway J 2009 Governance of Global Cities, GaWC/ADCED New Ways of Thinking About Abu Dhabi as an Emerging Global City, Shangri-La Hotel, 26-27 January, Qaryyat Al Beri, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Harrison J 2008 City-regions: Redrawing the Boundaries of the UK Space Economy, RGS-IBG annual conference, 27-29 August, London, UK.

MacLeavy J and Harrison J 2008 New Horizons in State Spatiality, AAG annual conference, 14-20 April, Boston, USA.

Harrison J 2007 From Regions to City-Regions: A New Orthodoxy in Economic Geography, 2nd Global Conference on Economic Geography, 25-28 June, Beijing, China.

Harrison J 2007 Stating the Production of Scales: Centrally Orchestrated Regionalism, Regionally Orchestrated Centralism, AAG annual conference, 17-21 April, San Francisco, USA.

Harrison J 2007 Constructing New Regional Geographies: The Case for 'New Regional Political Economy', Regional Studies Association International Conference, 2-5 April, Lisbon, Portugal.

Harrison J 2007 Cultural Capital and Capital of Culture: Lessons from the Birthplace of Industrialisation and Deindustrialisation, Regional Studies Association, 28-29 January, Enschede, Holland.

Harrison J 2006 Competitive Regions One Minute, Competitive City-Regions the Next: New Scalar Geographies and England’s Piecemeal Approach, 30 September, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK.

Harrison J 2006 A Little Less Hard Economics, A Little More Social Action: The Policy Rhetoric and Political Realities of an English Region, Regional Studies Association winter conference, 24 November, London, UK.

Jones M, MacLeod G and Harrison J 2006 In What Sense a Regional World? Institutional Legacies, Territorial Fixes, Network Topologies, AAG annual conference, 11 March, Chicago, USA.

Harrison J 2005 Unsustainable Regions? The ‘Gaping Hole’ in the English Devolution Settlement Continues, Regional Studies Association winter conference, 24 November, London, UK.

 

Workshops and panels

Institute of Advanced Studies (2006) Invited workshop participant. Colloquium 3: Urban-Rural: Flows and Boundaries. Lancaster University. 9-10 January.