Call for Papers! Ninth Annual Conference on City as the Southern Question! 13-14 November 2024!

Organised by- Calcutta Research Group and Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna

The pre-eminence of cities as sites of human history is inextricable and so are the instances when cities metamorphosed themselves as characters acting on the formalisation of orders and institutions that shape our world and the cities in it presently. The rise of Urban Studies as an academic field speaks of the importance of cities. However, the emergence of modern cities, the ones that we see and live at now, has much to do with the rise in a multitude of factors. Over the years, scholarship on the emergence of cities has focussed on various aspects of their growth. Engels’ Condition of the Working Class in England, squarely links the city with the condition of the working class; Walter Benjamin talks of cities as a place of desire of commodities produced by capitalism; Henri Lefebvre terms cities as ‘produced space’; postcolonial studies look at cities as sites of the politics of the governed and so on and so forth.

The Conference on City as the Southern Question (13-14 November 2024, Kolkata) aims to talk of cities and the questions that need to be asked and thought of by taking into consideration Gramsci’s ‘The Southern Question’.

Eligibility

The Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in collaboration with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, invites papers from academicians, scholars, researchers and practitioners on the following themes (but not limited to):

Sub Themes

• Urban Future(s)

• Urban Care, Protection and Responsibility

• Urban Space and Civic Organisations

• Diseases and Public Health • Urban Planning and Logistics

• City, Refugees, Migrants and the Stateless

• Urban Violence and Justice

• City, Climate Change and Sustainability

• The City in Literature, Films, Plays and Popular Culture

Submission Deadline

Submit the application with an abstract (500-600 words), a title and institutional affiliation by 15 May 2024 here.

*Selected participants will be notified once the selection process is over following which full papers would be due by 12 October 2024. To facilitate participation in the conference, CRG will only be able to provide accommodation in Kolkata (Check-In: 12 November 2024; Check-Out: 15 November 2024).

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