Sagnik Chakravartty
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Inviting all Silcharites to The City 1 Conference
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City 1 Conference
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.
The conference is organised by Sarai (www.sarai.net), a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Sarai's research emphasis is on urban culture and media.
The broad themes for the conference are as follows:
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
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.
These themes are by no means exhaustive and new may emerge after the abstracts have come in. Also the 'city' panels overlap with the main conference themes in line with the cross-disciplinary format. In the case of some cities there may be more than one panel.
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 latest by October 1th. 2002. Be sure to also include your full mailing address and contact information.
October 1: last date for abstracts. Please send abstracts to cityone@sarai.net.
We will cover all travel and local hotel costs for abstracts that are accepted from South Asia. We would like to urge international scholars with institutional affiliation to secure travel costs from their institution. This will help us fund travel for participants in India, who lack such support. Sarai and CSDS will cover all local costs for international scholars whose abstracts are accepted: including room and board.
Pre-Registration
If you are not presenting a paper but wish to attend the conference, you can pre-register by sending an email to cityone@sarai.net. Registration costs are Rs 300 per person, and Rs 100 for students. You can pay the fee at the conference
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