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CFP: Urban Culture, MAPACA, 10/28-10/31/10, Alexandria, VA (deadline for proposals, June 15th, 2010)
| Location: | Virginia, United States |
| Call for Papers Begins: | 2010-10-28 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-05-24 |
| Announcement ID: |
176396 |
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CFP: Urban Culture Area, MAPACA, 2010, Alexandria, VA (deadline for proposals, June 15th, 2010)
As another year rolls by, more and more major city businesses are closing down and more and more people are leaving the city, in search of a better place to live, work, raise families. Yet, simultaneously, new businesses open up, new people flock to the city in search of jobs, opportunities, and a better life. And so the city, like a flexible shell, accommodates the newcomers: individuals, communities, businesses and their everyday desires, hopes, activities; their idiosyncratic rituals; their ideas of what a city should be. And thus, the city lives on, shaped by others, who, in turn, are also shaped by it. This year, we want to pay particular attention to how residents, newcomers, and strangers shape their urban environment (in actuality, in representation, in memory), while also being shaped by it. Now, more than ever, we wonder, what is a city? How and why does a city come to be, and how and why does a city continue to be? And what happens to the urban self, in the face of economic, geographic, social change? As in previous years, please send your proposals about these and related issues to the Urban Culture Area of MAPACA. Historical or ethnographic studies of public sites and events, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city are welcome, as are studies of particular cities and resistance to urban change. If interested in participating in a workshop on “writing the urban,” in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. June 15th is the deadline by which you can send your virus free proposals and short recent bios to bmm202@nyu.edu. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets from October 28th till October 31st, 2010, in Alexandria, VA. For more information, check www.mapaca.net.
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Dr. Blagovesta Momchedjikova
Expository Writing Program
New York University
411 Lafayette, Office 403
New York, NY 10003
Email: bmm202@nyu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.mapaca.net
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