Mobility Project: TR-AM

Dear Friends,

The International Hrant Dink Foundation based in İstanbul is willing to launch a Mobility Project in partnership with various organisations from Armenia and Turkey Our aim is to encourage, facilitate and increase the mobility of people and organisations across Armenia and Turkey with a view to bolster the dialogue process of the two neighbouring countries which had no ties for decades.

The Turkish Delegation will be visiting Yerevan early December to share the project idea with Armenian colleagues, to get to know organisations from Armenia and to join the forces. Therefore, we would like to invite you to a meeting with civil society organisations on 4th of December 2009, Friday at 17:00 at the Civil Society Institute office in Yerevan. Address of the meeting place: Civil Society Institute (CSI) Office, Aygestan 11th str., 43 building, Yerevan, Armenia, tel: (+37410) 574317

Please reply to burcu.becermen@gmail.com

Urban Spaces: Caucasian Places. Transformations in Capital Cities

We are happy to inform you that one of our YERIATCs, Hamlet Melkumyan, is attending “Urban Spaces: Caucasian Places. Transformations in Capital Cities” workshop. The workshop is organised by Humboldt University Berlin and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in September 21-24 2009.

H. Melkumyan will present the transformation tendencies in post Soviet  Yerevan’s public spaces during the workshop: How urban changes (National and Urban Identity’s branding  and  Urban globalization, social segregation,) are lived symbolically and materially, how they are perceived and contested by different social groups in a capital city under transition? How these changes are reflected in public spaces and imaginative maps of the city and its citizens? What kind of practices of branding places are emerging in postsocialist cities? What are the similarities and differences in the reconstruction of urban spaces in the postsocialist capital cities.

For more information, please, refer:  http://www.sfb-repraesentationen.de/veranstaltungen/tagungen-und-workshops/urban-spaces-workshop.