Scott A. Bollens

Presentations Given

Bollens, S. A., Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, "Human Security and Urban Planning: An Urban Perspective on Human Rights," Panel: Planning and Human Rights Panel, Philadelphia, PA. (October 30, 2014).

U.S.-Iran Symposium on Resilient Cities, "Urban Resilience and Peace-Building in Cities of Conflict," Sponsored by National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Dept of State, Sharif University of Technology, Beckman Center, Irvine. (June 16, 2014).

Bollens, S. A., Joint AESOP/ACSP Congress, ""Transformative and Counter-Hegemonic Planning Regimes: South Africa and Lebanon," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Dublin, Ireland. (July 17, 2013).

Bollens, S. A., Peace, Conflict, and Justice Conference, "Belfast: A 'Peace' Not Envisioned," Munk School of Global Affairs, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (February 2, 2013).

Bollens, S. A., Cities to be Tamed? Standards and Alternatives in the Transformation of the Urban South, "Transformative and Competitive Planning Regimes: South Africa and Lebanon," Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. (November 16, 2012).

Bollens, S. A., Reconstruction of War-Torn Cities, ""Beirut Reconstruction after the 2006 War: A Comparative Perspective"," Organization of Arab Architects, Lebanon, Beirut (Jnah), Lebanon. (July 2012).

Bollens, S. A., University of North Carolina, Divided Cities and Regions Colloquium, ""Polarized Cities: Planning Interventions and Political Instability"," Chapel Hill, NC. (November 2011).

Bollens, S. A., American University of Beirut (Lebanon), "Invited guest presentation -- "Urbanism and Sectarianism"." (October 20, 2011).

Bollens, S. A., International Conference on Urban Conflicts (Ethno-National Divisions, States, and Cities) [Belfast, Northern Ireland], ""Urban Governance in Divided Countries: Six Case Studies"." (May 20, 2011).

Bollens, S. A., World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)., "“Entrenching Territoriality: Walls, Borders, and Constitutions.," Barcelona, Spain. (July 2010).

Bollens, S. A., Globalization, Urbanization and Ethnicity Conference., ""Managing Multicultural Cities in Divided Countries”.," Queen’s University (Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Research Initiative)., Ottawa, Canada. (December 2009).

Bollens, S. A., Walls in our Heads: Political Divisions and Cultural Imaginaries., ""Bipolar City: Epic Cultures and Urban Faultlines.”," University of California, Irvine. (October 2009).

Bollens, S. A., Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Lecture Series., "“Governing Polarized Cities.”," Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. (October 2008).

Bollens, S. A., Lecture series: Cities in War, Struggle and Peace—Rebuilding Cities after War and Disaster, "The Precarious City: Planning Interventions During Political Instability," Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace, University of Oregon, Department of Architecture. Eugene, OR. (January 2008).

Bollens, S. A., Annual Workshop, Crisis States Research Programme, "Comparative Research on Contested Cities: Lenses and Scaffoldings," London School of Economics and Political Science. Cape Town, South Africa. (August 2007).

Bollens, S. A., "Cities, Nationalism, and Democratisation," London School of Economics and Political Science, Crisis States Research Centre. London, England. (March 2007).

Bollens, S. A., Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), "City Ecologies of Nationalistic Conflict," Lausanne, Switzerland. Session: The built environment and social practices in contested spaces. (August 2006).

Bollens, S. A., Human Security in Urban Spaces Conference/Workshop, "Managing Urban Ethnic Conflict Amidst Democratization," Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, Vancouver, British Columbia. (June 2006).

Bollens, S. A., Urban Affairs Association 36th Annual Meeting, "Urbanism, Conflict, and Transitions," Montreal, Quebec. (April 2006).

Bollens, S. A., Workshop on Divided Cities, "Managing Group Identity Conflicts during Societal Transitions," Co-sponsored by the Comparative Urban Politics group, American Political Science Association; and the Comparative Urban Studies Project, Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (September 2005).

Bollens, S. A., Seminar on Cooperation Across Ideological Divides in the Middle East, "Urban Space, Conflict, and Cooperation," Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy. Thematic Discussion Paper. By-invitation-only 20 participant seminar. (August 2005).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association’s 2005 National Planning Conference, "Urbanism, Transitional Democracy, and Group Identity Conflicts," San Francisco. (March 2005).

Bollens, S. A., 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, "Urban Planning and Inter-Group Conflict: Confronting a Fractured Public Interest," Portland, Oregon. Prize Papers from the World’s Planning Schools. (October 23, 2004).

Bollens, S. A., 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, "The Role of Urban Planning in Developing Substate Societies," Portland, Oregon. (October 22, 2004).

Bollens, S. A., Urban Land Institute, Barcelona District Council Colloquium, "Urban Development, Nationalistic Conflict and Peace-Building," Barcelona. (July 2004).

Bollens, S. A., "Urban Management of Group Identity Conflicts/ Gestión Urbana de Conflictos Entre Comunidades Culturales Diferenciadas," Aula Barcelona (Fundacio CIDOB) and Fundacio Carles Pi i Sunyer D’Estudis Automomics i Locals, Barcelona. This seminar brought together for one day 14 experts from Barcelona and Basque Country (Spain) and Sarajevo and Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina), all individuals who I had interviewed during the preceding 10 months of field research. (July 2004).

Bollens, S. A., Congress/Dialogue, Los Conflictos en la Vida Cotidiana (Conflicts in Everyday Life), "When Conflict Comes to the City," Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona. (June 2004).

Bollens, S. A., Conflicte: 6 apostes seminar, "Espacio y conflicto: Habitar la emergencia," Institut Catala De Cooperacio Iberoamericana. Barcelona. (May 2004).

Bollens, S. A., Sarajevo Canton Institute for Development Planning, "Urban Planning and Reconstruction," Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (November 2003).

Bollens, S. A., "Urban Policy and Peace-Building in Cities of Conflict," U.S. Embassy, Vienna, Public Affairs Section, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Department of City and Regional Development), Technical University of Vienna (Institute of Urban and Regional Planning), Salzburg Geographic Society (University of Salzburg, Institute of Geography and Geoinformatics), and University of Innsbruck (Institute of Geography). Vienna, Salzburg, and Innsbruck, Austria. Presentations. (May 2003).

Bollens, S. A., "Subnational Dimensions of Peace-Building," Gaspar de Portola/University of California Visiting Scholars Exchange Program, Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain), Universitat de Barcelona (Department de Dret Constitucional i Ciencia Politica), Institut of Ciencies Politicas i Socials, and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Department de Ciencia Politica i de Dret Public). Barcelona, Spain. (April 2003).

Bollens, S. A., Seminar on Practical Cooperation in Divided Cities, "Practical Strategies of Urban Peace-Building," Swedish Institute and the Olof Palme International Center, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Presentation (solicited). Audience of experts on urban cooperation in politically and ethnically contested areas. (April 2002).

Bollens, S. A., "Conceptual Issues in the Study of Urban Planning Amidst Ethnonationalist Conflict," Van Leer Institute. Jerusalem. Delivered before a group of Israeli scholars in urban planning, cultural studies, and geography. (December 2001).

Bollens, S. A. (Keynote Speaker), Conference on Planning and Human Rights, "Planning and Peace-Building in Politically Contested Cities," Bimkom (Alternative) —Planners for Planning Rights; and Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, Jerusalem Institute of Israel Studies. Jerusalem. Audience of 150 progressive Israeli and Palestinian planners and architects. (December 2001).

Bollens, S. A., Conference on Indonesia Constitutional Review, "Regional and Local Autonomy in Transitioning Societies," Jakarta, Indonesia. Declined invitation due to world political tension. (October 2001).

Bollens, S. A., World Planning Schools Congress, "Urban Planning and Inter-Group Conflict: Strategies of Intervention when Confronted with a Fractured Public Interest," Shanghai, China. (July 2001).

Bollens, S. A., World Unity Congress--35th Meeting of International Union of Local Authorities (IULA)/ 16th Meeting of the World Federation of United Cities, "Democracy at the Local Level: Managing Diversity in Deeply Divided Urban Arenas," Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Congress included 1100 delegates representing city governments from 58 countries. (May 2001).

Bollens, S. A., "Planning a Divided City: The Case of Jerusalem," Delft Institute of Technology (Netherlands), Palestinian International Peace and Cooperation Center (Jerusalem), and the Jerusalem Institute of Israel Studies, Delft Institute of Technology, Netherlands. I was one of two “international experts” invited to participate, along with four Israeli and four Palestinian urban planning and economic development professionals, in a workshop to formulate alternative approaches for addressing the Jerusalem problem. (March 2001).

Bollens, S. A., Conference on planning in the city of Jerusalem, "Jerusalem: Beyond 2000," Arab Thought Forum (Al-Multaqa), a Palestinian nongovernmental organization, East Jerusalem. Cancelled due to political uncertainties. (2000).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association Region VI Conference, "Retooling Regionalism in Southern California," Long Beach, CA. (September 2000).

Bollens, S. A., Conference: The Role of Citizen Peacebuilding in Conflict Transformation, "City and Soul: Jerusalem, Belfast and Nicosia," University of California, Irvine. Hosted by UCI Global Peace and Conflict Studies, funded by U.S. Institute of Peace. (June 2000).

Bollens, S. A., Urban Affairs Association 30th Annual Meeting, "Urban Dimensions of Divided Societies," Los Angeles. (May 2000).

Bollens, S. A., Regionalism: Promise and Problems, "Regionalism, Community Development, and Integration," University at Buffalo, State University of New York. (1999).

Bollens, S. A., Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), "Land Supply and Capacity Monitoring," Chicago, Illinois. Roundtable Presentation. (October 1999).

Bollens, S. A., Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), "Sustaining and Expanding NEURUS: International Collaborations and Student Exchanges in Planning," Chicago, Illinois. Roundtable Presentation. (October 1999).

Bollens, S. A., Breaking Walls—Conference on Divided Cities, "On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy in Polarized Cities," Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Audience of political leaders from cities of Belfast, Jerusalem, Nicosia, Beirut, Mostar and Sarajevo. (October 1999).

Bollens, S. A., International Conference on the Revitalization of Historic Cities, "Urban Governance and Policy in Multicultural Cities," United Nations Development Programme, Bi-Communal Development Programme, Nicosia, Cyprus. (May 20, 1999 - May 22, 1999).

Bollens, S. A., Global Peace and Conflict Studies (GPACS), "Urban Peace-Building on Narrow Ground: Belfast, Jerusalem, and Johannesburg." Public Forum. (February 1999).

Bollens, S. A., Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, "Concentrated Poverty and Regional Planning," Pasadena, CA. (November 1998).

Bollens, S. A., Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, "Politics and Management of Regional Growth," Pasadena, CA. (November 1998).

Bollens, S. A., California Chapter American Planning Association Annual Conference, "Cal APA Goes Back to School: Recent Trends in Planning Education in California," Costa Mesa. (September 1998).

Bollens, S. A., Parcel-based Geographic Information Systems for Land Supply and Capacity Monitoring, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, University of Washington, Seattle. (May 1998).

Bollens, S. A., Religion in Los Angeles Conference: Innovations and Multicultural Interaction, "Higher Ground or Narrow Ground: Religion in Multicultural Cities," UCLA, Center for the Study of Religion, Westwood, California. (May 1998).

Bollens, S. A., Governing Cities: International Perspectives. Inaugural meeting of the European Urban Research Association, "Urban Management of Ethnic Conflict," European Commission and the UK Economic and Social Research Council, Brussels, Belgium. (September 1997).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association National Conference, Panel: Integrating State Programs, San Diego. (April 1997).

Bollens, S. A., Internal Wars and Peacekeeping/Peacemaking, Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Panel: Negotiating Peace?, Laguna Beach. Research Seminar. (February 1997).

Bollens, S. A., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Cities and Nationalistic Conflict," San Francisco, CA. (September 1996).

Bollens, S. A., ACSP-AESOP Joint International Congress, Panel: Land Markets Analysis, Toronto, Canada. (July 1996).

Bollens, S. A., Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)--Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Joint International Congress, "Urban Planning and Nationalistic Conflict: Middle East, Northern Ireland, South Africa," Toronto, Canada. (July 1996).

Bollens, S. A., Conference: Linking Regional and Local Strategies to Create Healthy Communities, "Integration and Urban and Regional Planning," Institute of Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis. (April 1996).

Bollens, S. A., "Deeply Conflicted Cites: The Case of Johannesburg," University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. South Africa. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Special Seminar Presentation. (September 1995).

Bollens, S. A., Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program, "Urban Arenas of Nationalistic Ethnic Conflict: Urban Policy in Jerusalem and Belfast," University of California, Irvine. Research Seminar. (May 1995).

Bollens, S. A., "On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy in Polarized Belfast," School of Geosciences-Queen's University of Belfast. Northern Ireland. Special Seminar Presentation. Audience of urban policy professionals and academics. (March 1995).

Bollens, S. A., Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, "Urban Planning and Policy in Contested Jerusalem," East Jerusalem. Israel/West Bank. Special Seminar Presentation. (January 1995).

Bollens, S. A., "On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy in Ethnically Polarized Cities," Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel/West Bank. Special Seminar Presentation. (December 1994).

Bollens, S. A., Shaping the Urban Future: International Perspectives and Exchanges, "Urban Policy in Ethnically Polarized Cities," Bristol, England. (July 1994).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association National Conference, "Creative Interlocal Arrangements," San Francisco, CA. (April 1994).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association National Conference, "Governing the Intermodal Metropolis," San Francisco, CA. (April 1994).

Bollens, S. A., Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, "Shadow Regionalism and the Fragmented Metropolis: Organizational Responses to Urban Instability," Philadelphia, PA. (October 1993).

Bollens, S. A., Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, "State Growth Policy and Suburbia: Regionalism Amidst Political Fragmentation," Columbus, OH. (October 1992).

Bollens, S. A., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Intergovernmental Growth Strategies: Integrating Environmental and Economic Imperatives," Washington, D.C. (September 1991).

Bollens, S. A., Joint International Planning Congress (Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning/ Association of European Schools of Planning), "Planning Amidst Polarization: A Cross-National Perspective on Divided Cities," Oxford, England. (July 1991).

Bollens, S. A., Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, "Urban Growth Controls and State Interests: Addressing the Local Regulation/Regional Impact Mismatch," Vancouver, B. C. (April 1991).

Bollens, S. A., Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, "Issues in Land Use Federalism: Double Vetoes, Preemption, and Planning," Austin, TX. (November 1990).

Bollens, S. A., Regional Science Association International-North American Meeting, "Seasonal to Year Round Transitional Economies: The Case of Cape Cod," Boston, MA. (November 1990).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association National Conference, "Managing Growth at the Regional Level," Denver, CO. (April 1990).

Bollens, S. A., Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, "Growth Management: Constituencies for Regionalism and Limitation Approaches," Portland, OR. (October 1989).

Bollens, S. A., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Ballot Box Management of the Growth Machine," Atlanta, GA. (September 1989).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association Conference-North Carolina Chapter, "Providing Infrastructure for the Year 2000: Planning and Policy Issues," Institute of Government, Chapel Hill. (April 1988).

Kaiser, E. J., Bollens, S. A., Burby, R. J., Holway, J. M., Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting, "Private Sector Land Market Decision Agents as Targets of Floodplain Policy," Los Angeles, CA. (November 1987).

Bollens, S. A., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Economic Context, Local Land Use Regulation, and Inter-Municipal Income Stratification," Chicago. (September 1987).

Bollens, S. A., Suburbia Re-Examined Conference, "Fractures in the Suburban Ring: An Empirical Study of Inter-Suburb Differentiation," Hempstead, N.Y. (June 1987).

Bollens, S. A., Godschalk, D. R., American Planning Association National Conference, "Surveying Current Practices in Land Information Systems," New York. (April 1987).

Bollens, S. A., Regional Science Association North American Meeting, "Municipal Decline and Inequality in the Suburban Ring: 1960-1980," Columbus, OH. (November 1986).

Bollens, S. A., Godschalk, D. R., Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Conference, "Computerized Land Supply Monitoring Systems: A Report on the State of the Art," Denver, CO. (August 1986).

Bollens, S. A., American Planning Association Conference-North Carolina Chapter, "Automated Land Supply Information Systems: Issues of Design, Organizational Structure, and Implementation," Institute of Government, UNC CH. (April 1986).

Bollens, S. A., Land Data Systems Seminar, "Experience With Land Data System Implementation," Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Washington D.C. (February 1986).