The Deadline for Stadtkolloquium
2012 Annual Workshop abstracts has now passed and the CFP is now closed.
Annual Workshop 2012
Call for papers
The UCL Urban Laboratory is organizing its annual 2-day
workshop for PhD research students in urban-related disciplines. The workshop
will provide an open, informal and intimate space to collaborate and discuss
progress amongst peers with regard to topical, theoretical, practical or
methodological concerns. We therefore welcome contributions from students at all
stages of the dissertation process.
*Stadtkolloquium* aims to create a supportive environment
for urban researchers who to develop their work and meet PhD students from
other departments and universities. The workshop is unique in that all
participants agree to both present their work and support others in doing so in
small group sessions. Organizers hope to generate lively round-table
discussions on diverse urban questions across various academic disciplines
including Geography, Architecture, History, Anthropology, Literature, Cultural
Studies, Development Studies, Fine Arts, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies,
Health Sciences, Planning, Engineering and beyond.
The four thematic tracks for the 2012
workshop are:
A. Experiencing the urban
This workshop track will attend to the experiential
dimension of the urban: the subjective, immaterial, in some cases fleeting and
emotive multi-sensuous engagements with urban space, past and present. It
encourages papers that adopt broadly humanist, phenomenological and
‘more-than-representational' (Lorimer 2005) perspectives; which emphasise
practice, movement, perception, performance and affect. This track welcomes but
is not limited to contributions which emphasise the auditory, somatic, visual,
olfactory and gustatory nature of urban contexts and apply notions of rhythm
(Lefebvre 1992), dwelling (Ingold 1993), and memory (Tilley 1997).
Key Words:
experience, subjectivity, emotion, senses, perception, practice
B. Urban Interventions
Drawing upon the theme of 'urban
interventions this track will explore various forms of acting into cities in
ways that reconfigure, or seek to alter, existing social arrangements. Such
urban interventions might take the shape of political mobilizations or
contestations, technological innovations, emerging social practices or the
articulation of alternative visions for urban life. We welcome contributions
from a range of urban-related disciplines dealing with matters of urban policy
and planning, technology and engineering, political or social theory, or that
are broadly connected with the challenges or possibilities of urban life.
Keywords:
social movements, urban politics, emerging trends, experiments, changing
practices, urban policy
C. Society, Nature & Cities
This track will focus on the interrelatedness and interdependencies of the
systems of society, nature and cities. It welcomes contributions that shape and
advance an understanding of sustainable and resilient pathways of development
and particularly encourages papers that consider the networks that mediate the
flows within and between these systems. Interpretations of these systemic flows
can include environmental, financial, social and political exchanges,
incorporating approaches from a wide range of disciplines; from concepts of
urban metabolism to institutional theory, and political analysis to systems
thinking and development studies.
Key
words: urban metabolisms, socio-natures, infrastructure, networks
of mediation, sustainability, resilience
D. Transnational Urbanism
This track will explore the implications for urban areas of
the mobility of people, goods, capital and information across borders, in
particular the transnational networks and ties that both shape and evolve from
these flows. As cities increasingly find themselves competing on a global stage
(Sassen 1998), the traffic of ideas, people and models between cities has
similarly increased (Roy and Ong 2011). This track welcomes papers that discuss
the relationships between urban spaces and these transnational flows. In
particular we welcome contributions that consider the broad range of actors
involved in transnational urban networks, from city leaders and international
consultants to grassroots movements and individuals.
Keywords:
transnational, mobility, networks, migration, citizenship
* Workshop Dates - The workshop will take place on 26 & 27 March 2012 at University
College London. On the first day, each participant will be given 20 minutes to
present their work in small groups of 8 people, followed by 25 minutes of
feedback and discussion. The second day will be dedicated to a plenary
discussion, two keynote lectures and small group workshops based on accepted
participant’s suggestions.
Call for papers - If you are interested in discussing your
work, please send us an abstract (no more than 250 words) of the project you
would like to present. Past participants have presented work ranging from
upgrade documents, PhD outlines, sample dissertations chapters and journal
papers in progress. Please note that while the intimate nature of the workshop
provides a uniquely engaging experience, it also significantly limits the
number of proposals we are able to accept. Competition for spaces in years past
has been very tight.
In submitting an
abstract, please include the following:
-A title and 250 word abstract
-Your name, university, department, and year of study.
-In the subject line of your email, please indicate which
workshop group (A, B, C, D) you are applying for.
-Abstracts should be emailed to stadtkolloquium@gmail.com
* Deadline for proposals: 15th of January 2012 (**extended deadline is 30th of January
for Tracks C and D**).
* A small conference fee may apply
(approx. 20 GBP).
