Thank you! Same here — I was really surprised by how fast it went. Congratulations, and great to be part of this issue together.
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New article (ahead of print) out in Sociológica (Mexico) 🎉
“Lights that Gather: Attendance Motivations and Emotions in Light Festivals as Night-time Practices”
sociologicamexico.azc.uam.mx/index.php/So...
#NightStudies #UrbanStudies #LightFestivals #NocturnalCities
📢 New short publication
“Live music and urban transformation in Lisbon: between cultural resistance and touristification” published in Barómetro Social, by the IS-UP
Authored by Chiara De Dominicis, Manuel García Ruiz, and Marco Roque de Freitas.
ICNS7 Keynote
Giacomo Bottà (University of Turku)
Can You Borrow an Atmosphere? Cultural Extractivism and the Urban Night
📣 CFP open → icnslx.com/icns-lx_7/
✍️ Submit → forms.gle/wofXiYU6Ee3r...
👤 Speaker → icnslx.com/icns-lx_7/sp...
#ICNS7 #NightStudies #UrbanNight
📢 CFP now open — ICNS.LX7
Horizons, Dimensions and Atmospheres
🗓️ Online · 7–9 Oct 2026
We invite proposals exploring the social, cultural, spatial, and atmospheric dimensions of the night.
CFP + info: icnslx.com
New chapter alert
“The touristification of Lisbon’s nightlife: impacts on the tangible and the intangible cultural heritage”
Published in the Handbook on Tourism Gentrification @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
With Jordi Nofre, João Carlos Martins & @guitscosta.bsky.social
doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Call for Papers | After Dark: Exploring Nighttime Tourism
Special Issue of Tourism Geographies (tourismgeographies.bsky.social)
eds. Manuel García-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & Jordi Nofre.
🕐 Abstracts due 15 Nov 2025
nightologists.hypotheses.org/2734
📢 CFP Extension
The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities ed. Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & #JordiNofre
Deadline extended to 15 Nov 2025 🗓️
Exploring the atmospheres, inequalities & transformations of cities after dark
nightologists.hypotheses.org/2938
Nightlife is not just leisure—it’s survival, memory & resistance.
Join us for “Night Is Not a Luxury: Queer Survival, Music, and Urban Struggle”
📅 Oct 11, 2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:00
@milisboa
📍 Sala dos Fornos, Beato Innovation District
More info: bit.ly/42VZZDq
Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...
Honored to present “Behind the Scenes of the Light: Ethnography of Nighttime Work in Festivals” at Espacialidades: Espacios, Tiempos y Noches Sociales at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico)
Great exchanges on how the night reshapes our urban and cultural landscapes.
CFP - The Palgrave Handbook on Nocturnal Cities
Critical takes on the night as urban space-time: governance, labour, care, resistance, aesthetics.
🗓️Abstract Deadline: 10 Oct 2025
🔗 nightologists.hypotheses.org/2938
#NocturnalCities #NightStudies #UrbanSociology #CallForChapters
🎉 New publication!
Proud to share our latest paper:
"The brand-making of Madrid Global City from the old historic neighbourhood of Lavapiés"
📝 @alvaromazorra.bsky.social, Nofre & Garcia-Ruiz
📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0965...
#UrbanStudies #Madrid #Lavapiés
Honoured to be part of the newly elected team of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) for 2025–2027. Looking forward to contributing to our vibrant sociological community!
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📢 New publication alert!
Excited to share our latest article, just published in the
International Journal Sociology of Leisure
"An Exploratory Ethnography of the New Tourist Nightlife in Bairro Alto, Lisbon" by Jordi Nofre, Manuel García Ruiz, and Juliette Galavielle.
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
🚨 CFP OUT NOW!
After Dark: Atmospheres, Temporalities & Embodied Practices of Nighttime Tourism @tourismgeographies.bsky.social
Guest editors: Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (vanhoben.bsky.social) & Jordi Nofre
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 15, 2025
🔗 Full CFP: bit.ly/3T1NpNM
📎 Guidelines: bit.ly/4kNMX1M
Just featured in Gaceta UNAM!
My work on Mi-e dor de tine—a luminous installation exploring Romanian migrants' nostalgia and the night as a space of experience—is now part of the conversation.
📰 www.gaceta.unam.mx/con-instalac...
#MiEDorDeTine #NightStudies #LightArt #TransnationalEmotions
Honoured to speak at the University of Algarve on “Tangible and Intangible Impacts of Nocturnal Cultural Events”
Thanks to Carmen Zita Monereo for the invitation!
We discussed light festivals, proximity tourism & the creative force of the night.
#CitiesAndCreativity #NightStudies #CulturalEvents
Another piece about our work last week in Casablanca
30+ students exploring the city at night through sociology — and now it’s in the press
epaper.lematin.ma/assahraa/jou...
#NightStudies #UrbanSociology #Fieldwork #Casablanca
Just back from Casablanca where I co-taught a course on sociology of the night with Prof. Sana Benbelli at Hassan II Univ.
Night walks, sharp students, & lots to reflect on.
Happy that this work also caught the attention of the press
🔗 assahraa.ma/web/2025/182...
#NightStudies #UrbanSociology
Great pleasure to give the masterclass “Exploring the Urban Night: Qualitative Methods and Ethical Challenges” yesterday at INAU Rabat.
Thanks to Hind Ftouhi for the kind invitation — and well, it’s not every day you see your face on every bulletin board at the uni!
This week I’m leading sessions on #NightStudies with the Master DIS students at LADSIS – Université Hassan II de Casablanca (UH2C).
Thanks to the students for their great engagement and to Sana Benbeli for the warm welcome and support.
Honoured to give a talk at LADSIS – Université Hassan II de Casablanca (UH2C), titled Sociologie de la nuit : interactions, politiques publiques, culture et transformation urbaine.
Grateful to Sana Benbeli for her trust and long-standing collaboration.
#NightStudies #SociologieDeLaNuit
Thrilled to share our latest paper, "Gentrification and Touristification in Lavapiés: Causes and Consequences of a Unique Interplay in Today’s Southern Europe," at Journal of Urban Affairs!
A huge thanks to my co-authors @alvaromazorra.bsky.social & Jordi Nofre
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
🚨 On 21 February 2025, the Final Conference of the CrissCross Project takes place in Lisbon & online!
📢 Experts will discuss strategies for safer, more inclusive nightlife spaces. I will be closing the event, reflecting on key insights and future directions
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/CrissCrossEU...
🚖🌙 Thrilled to share our latest work!
@guitscosta.bsky.social and I explore Lisbon’s night through the eyes of taxi drivers in our chapter The Taxi Driver and the City in Crisis, Conflict and Celebration (Palgrave Macmillan).
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
🌙 Excited to share that I'll speak at the Night Studies Seminar!
"The Night as a Space of Experiences: Cultural Dynamics, Proximity Tourism, and Urban Transformation"
📅 Mar 13, 2025 | 10 AM (CDMX)
📍 CISAN, UNAM | 🔗 Live on YouTube
Thanks to Yolanda Macías & Alejandro Mercado for organizing!
Excited to announce the Call for Papers for the 6th International Conference on Night Studies (@icnslx)!
If your work explores the night in all its dimensions, we’d love to hear from you.
📝 Submit by April 15, 2025
📅 Join us online Oct 8-10, 2025
🔗http://icnslx.com
✨ #ICNS2025
Happy to participate at the VII Trobada de Geografia Cultural: Anem de festa!
Presenting “The Many Invisible Faces of the Nocturnal Tourist City”
📍Universitat de les Illes Balears [@uib.cat]
📅 14 Feb 2025
🕙 9-13h CET
ℹ️ bit.ly/403xQbv
📢 Excited to share my latest article in Estudios Turísticos (@Turespana_), co-authored with @guitscosta.bsky.social and #JordiNofre:
"When the Night Cools Down: On the Touristification of the Former Red-Light District of Cais do Sodré"
Read it here 👉 bit.ly/4gI803u