[Sarai Newsletter]Call for Proposals

[City One 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 at 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 at sarai.net. Registration 
costs are Rs 300 per person, and Rs 100 for students.

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