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City One: Conference on the South Asian City
| Location: | India |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2002-10-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-09-06 |
| Announcement ID: |
131200 |
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City One, The First South Asian Conference on the urban experience is being held in Delhi from January 9-11th, 2003. We hope to bring together most people working on the South Asian city, both in India and around the world. The design is to push the idea of the urban seriously in the South Asian context, within the framework of a cross-disciplinary conference, bringing people from different areas (history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, urban design, architecture, film and media studies) and also including practitioners like architects and urban designers, as well as representatives of urban social movements.
Modernity and the South Asian city
Urban History
Social Theories of the South Asian City
Colonial Urbanism in South Asia
Architecture and Spatial transformations
Critiques of Urbanism and Modernist Planning
Urban Memory and Narratives of Violence
Urban Ecologies
Traditions of Urban Demography
Urban Social Movements
z,liz.New forms of differentiation
Literature and Urbanism
Cinema and the City
The future of Public Space
Media-Cities and Globalisation
Alternative Urban Visions
Labouring in the City
Visual Culture
Urban Crisis and Governance
City Panels: Bombay/Mumbai, Calcutta/ Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Lahore, Delhi, Karachi, Kathmandu, Colombo, Dhaka.
The conference is organised by Sarai, a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Sarai’s research emphasis is on urban culture and media.
There are still a few slots available for presentations, and we are calling for proposals. The abstracts must not be more than 150 words and must reach us no later than October 1, 2002. Be sure to also include your full mailing address and contact information.
Please send abstracts to cityone@sarai.net.
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