CFP: What Is A City?
What Is A City?
Western Humanities Alliance
25th Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2006
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
For over 5000 years, cities have been a primary forum
for meaning-making and place-making. They have been
studied in artifacts, literature, and history,
expressed in texts, visual and performing arts, and
they have been analyzed in their social and physical
settings. Cities have inspired imagination, signified
aspirations, and they have demonstrated human
limitations.
The world is rapidly moving to a new context
characterized by profound influences of cities.
Indeed, for the first time in history, over half of
the world lives in urban centers. No country is
preventing urban migration and it is likely that
populations will continue to grow in scale and
complexity.
The Urban Age – a cooperative initiative by the London
School of Economics dealing with the future of cities
– notes that after decades of neglect, cities in the
21st century are at the center of economic growth, and
are focal points of social, political and cultural
innovation. The city is now viewed as an
agglomeration of opportunities, a promising milieu,
and as a resource rather than a liability.
To know and understand cities – built or imagined – is
to know and understand ourselves.
Proposals are invited for the 25th Annual Conference
of the Western Humanities Alliance on the theme: “What
Is A City?”
In the spirit of the Western Humanities Alliance
mandate to foster disciplinary and interdisciplinary
scholarship – researchers from diverse fields of study
are invited to present papers addressing the question
“what is a city?”
Submissions are welcome from the arts and
humanities, from architecture and urban design, from
sociology, anthropology and geography – from all
disciplinary or interdisciplinary settings able to
engage the question.
Proposal submissions should be sent by June 15, 2006
to:
WHA Conference Committee
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4, Canada
cih@ucalgary.ca
www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH
Proposals should be submitted electronically, be no
more that 500 words in length, and also include a
short biography of each author or participant.
Proposals for individual papers or for complete
sessions are encouraged. Selected papers from the
conference will be published in a special journal
issue of the Western Humanities Review.
For information on the Western Humanities Alliance: http://wha.ucdavis.edu
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Western Humanities Alliance
25th Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2006
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
For over 5000 years, cities have been a primary forum
for meaning-making and place-making. They have been
studied in artifacts, literature, and history,
expressed in texts, visual and performing arts, and
they have been analyzed in their social and physical
settings. Cities have inspired imagination, signified
aspirations, and they have demonstrated human
limitations.
The world is rapidly moving to a new context
characterized by profound influences of cities.
Indeed, for the first time in history, over half of
the world lives in urban centers. No country is
preventing urban migration and it is likely that
populations will continue to grow in scale and
complexity.
The Urban Age – a cooperative initiative by the London
School of Economics dealing with the future of cities
– notes that after decades of neglect, cities in the
21st century are at the center of economic growth, and
are focal points of social, political and cultural
innovation. The city is now viewed as an
agglomeration of opportunities, a promising milieu,
and as a resource rather than a liability.
To know and understand cities – built or imagined – is
to know and understand ourselves.
Proposals are invited for the 25th Annual Conference
of the Western Humanities Alliance on the theme: “What
Is A City?”
In the spirit of the Western Humanities Alliance
mandate to foster disciplinary and interdisciplinary
scholarship – researchers from diverse fields of study
are invited to present papers addressing the question
“what is a city?”
Submissions are welcome from the arts and
humanities, from architecture and urban design, from
sociology, anthropology and geography – from all
disciplinary or interdisciplinary settings able to
engage the question.
Proposal submissions should be sent by June 15, 2006
to:
WHA Conference Committee
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 1N4, Canada
cih@ucalgary.ca
www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/Others/CIH
Proposals should be submitted electronically, be no
more that 500 words in length, and also include a
short biography of each author or participant.
Proposals for individual papers or for complete
sessions are encouraged. Selected papers from the
conference will be published in a special journal
issue of the Western Humanities Review.
For information on the Western Humanities Alliance: http://wha.ucdavis.edu
Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com