Dear all We have a very important core group meeting next week. The meeting will last for two hours. The first hour will be chaired by Maria and will focus on the items below. The second hour will be chaired by Luca and we shall focus exclusively on crafting the agenda for our away day We have spent already and will spend a lot of effort and resources on this, so it has to be good and meaningful . and most importantly, it has to have elements that YOU ALL wish to bring on the agenda for discussion Hope to see you all there Maria and Luca AGENDA 9:00-10:00 (maria chairs) 10:00-11:00 (Luca chairs) 9:00-10:00 ALL ITEMS below will be discussed for no more than 5 mins max each. Many of them will have follow ups in the Away day, indicated as (AD).

1. Research assessment exercise ACTION POINT: make sure you inform AISSR for all your publications and funding over the past 6 years or so. 2. luncheon arrangements and budget - update 3. MA Program Web page and name update - Federico 5 mins (AD) ACTION POINT: check and send comments to Federico 4. Next UP Dialogues: speakers and times for the remainder of this year. (AD) 5. Group appreciation (AD) ACTION POINT: come up with suggestions on how best we can do that - e.g. flowers, a song?!! A poem? Other? 6. Place-making and claiming a space of our own. (AD) ACTION POINT: Please bring concrete suggestions for this 7. Date for next core group meeting

10:00-11:00 (Luca chairs)

Two day retreat- Making the agenda together

Maria Kaika Professor of Urban Regional and Environmental Planning Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development (GPIO) [cid:image001.jpg@01D1DB5A.59396BD0] http://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/a/m.kaika/m.kaika.html

New Publications -https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2018.1484893 Kaika, M. (2018). Between the frog and the eagle: claiming a 'Scholarship of Presence' for the Anthropocene. European Planning Studies, 26(9), 1714-1727. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2018.1484893 -https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12468 Luke, N., & Kaika, M. (2018). Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats: Collective Action to Defend Infrastructures of Social Reproduction against Gentrification. Antipode. doi: 10.1111/anti.12468; first published early online 21 November 2018

Postal address Prof. Maria Kaika University of Amsterdam Att: Secretariaat GPIO REC C, kamer C 4.08 Valckenierstraat 65-67 1018 XE Amsterdam The Netherlands Visiting address Roeterseilandcampus C 4.017 Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 | 1018 WV Amsterdam | The Netherlands Web page: https://tinyurl.com/http-mariakaika-uva Publications: https://independent.academia.edu/mariakaika

From: Kaika, Maria Sent: 25 October 2019 14:12 To: Kaika, Maria Subject: PLANNING CORE GROUP MEETING Monday 28th cotober 16:00-17:00 hrs Importance: High