Reminder, CfP: Student Conference, "Urban Metamorphoses", Bucharest, DL 29.04

[Damiana-Gabriela Otoiu]

>Call for Papers
>
>Student Conference:  Urban Metamorphoses: Landscapes of Power and Memory
>
>Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest 
>
>May 17-18, 2013 
>http://fspubconference2013.wordpress.com
>
>
>The relationship between the political and the urban form has been under 
>much scrutiny as the last two decades witnessed significant changes in both 
>the political and urban arenas: totalitarian regimes in Central and Eastern 
>Europe and the Middle East have fallen, as conflicts ravaged cities from 
>Mostar to Baghdad, while social inequality has risen on a global scale. 
>The city has morphed in connection with political transformations, its 
>metamorphoses being charged with diverse power plays and discourses on 
>justice, coming to terms with the past and engagements with memory. From 
>the debates on the demolition of the Berlin Socialist-era Palace of the 
>Republic in order to rebuild a Prussian Royal Palace to the reconstruction 
>of the center of Beirut, the building of the new polity and the processes 
>of coming to terms with the past have had a great influence on city-making 
>This multidisciplinary student conference seeks to further the analysis of 
>recent urban metamorphoses by means of a double interrogation. 
>
>
>First, it will consider urban space as an indicator of the relationship 
>with the past. It aims to investigate the transformations of places into 
>sites of memory and how architectural projects, memorials, or museums 
>narrate, fabricate or silence the past. 
>
>
>Second, it will explore urban sites and projects as a means by which 
>different aspects of the *statu quo* are being expressed or contested. We 
>aim to engage with the dramatic changes that cities witnessed / are 
>witnessing in different political contexts and regimes (socialist/ 
>postsocialist, colonial / postcolonial, conflict/post-conflict etc). We 
>call for explorations of resistance and resilience, contestations, as well 
>as critical examinations of the intricate relations between various actors 
>involved in the planning process. This includes forms of urban 
>contestation of the current political and socio-economic *statu quo*, 
>including forms of environmental and social injustice. 
>
>
>
>Therefore, we welcome theoretical or empirical papers addressing the 
>following or related topics: 
>
>
>·Urban Architecture, Objects and Memories 
>
>·Political Projects (and Utopias) of the Built Environment 
>
>·Post-conflict Cities and Multiple Narratives about the Past 
>
>·Governance, Urban Politics/ Policies and Social Change 
>
>·The Street / Market as a Space of Politics and Sociality 
>
>·Political Activism (Environmental, etc.) and the Urban Space 
>
>·Urban Neighborhoods and Ethnic Relations 
>
>·The City as a Space of Separation/ Segregation 
>
>·“Lieux de mémoire”, Museums and Contested Heritage 
>
>
>
>The conference is open to both undergraduate (final years) and postgraduate 
>students from different fields of social sciences and the humanities: 
>Political Science, Architecture, Urban Planning, Anthropology, History, 
>Sociology, Economics, Art History, etc. 
>
>The conference will take place at the Political Science Department, 
>University of Bucharest: 8, Spiru Haret Street, 010175, Bucharest (District 
>1), Romania. 
>
>Applications, in English or French, consisting of a paper abstract of 250 
>words and a short bio (one paragraph) should be submitted by April 29th, to: 
>conference at fspub.unibuc.ro.
> 
>Please mention if funding of accommodation costs is needed (currently 
>available funding is very limited). We also welcome research posters 
>fitting with the conference theme. 
>
>
>The selected papers should be submitted by May 10th (cca. 20, 000 – 25, 000 
>characters). All presentations will be in either French or English; passive 
>knowledge of both languages is assumed, but the final paper can be written 
>in Romanian, English, or French. 
>
>The conference is part of the activities taking place within the framework 
>of the project “La rue comme lieu d’expression du politique”, conducted by 
>University of Bucharest, Political Science Department; Sciences Po Paris, 
>Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales; Institut Français 
>d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA), Istanbul; Nouvelle Université Bulgare, Sofia 
>and Université Dokuz Eylül, Izmir: http://rue.ifea-istanbul.net. 
>
>-- 



Damiana Otoiu
Visiting Fellow, European Institute  | LSEE Research on SEE
London School of Economics and Political Science

50, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Portsmouth Street
1st Floor, Room 50L 1.03
Ph.: 0044 (0) 78 4504 1229 
E-mail: damiana.otoiu at fspub.unibuc.ro, D.Otoiu at lse.ac.uk

URL: http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/LSEE/Whos_who/VisitingFellows.aspx

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