CFPs for TWO Conferences in Aotearoa- New Zealand - A chance to engage with Ekistics and the New Habitat
CFP- RE-IMAGINING THE CITY: LEGACIES, CHALLENGES, POSSIBILITIES (Nov.30-Dec 2)(Auckland)
The Organizing Committee is now accepting abstracts and asks authors to select one of the following potential focus areas for their submission.
Abstracts must be submitted by 28 April 2023
- To what extent can we conceive of the ‘city’ as ‘civilisation,’ ‘community,’ ‘home’? (e.g. the polis, associationism, sites of cultural capital, homelessness, segregation, marginalised and refugee communities).
- Decolonising the city: its spaces, places and monuments. What are the relationships of Indigenous communities, past and present, their societies and languages, with cities? Tāmaki Makaurau’s histories, heritages, and challenges; reclaiming Indigenous sites of significance. Tensions between perceiving urbanisation as modernisation/development or as westernisation/loss of identity.
- Language communities in multilingual and multicultural environments: sustaining and developing Indigenous and immigrant languages, cultures, and identities; multilingualism in education, healthcare, tourism, the media; rural and urban settings; popular culture, identities, and linguistic and cultural diversity. The roles of translation and interpreting in assisting communities in crises. How can comparative and world literatures foster multiculturalism, interculturalism and global citizenship?
- How can the ‘city’ better interface with the ‘country’? Issues around urbanisation, climate change, sustainability and resilience; rural depopulation; borderlands.
- The relationship of cities and citizens with private corporate interests.
- Representations of global cities, especially those in the Asia-Pacific region, and their significance within economic, political and cultural power networks. International and internal migrations.
- Cities and bodies: physical, social, civic, and political; sociocultural stratifications of the city; transgressive spaces and practices; the city and health, mental, physical, spiritual; gender in the city; how different bodies and social, cultural and diasporic groups claim urban spaces to display their identities; disabled communities in the city.
- How does the media construct the city? How is the city communicatively imaged, imagined and experienced through the visual arts and media representations? How do immersive technologies and digital environments mediate our embodied relationships in and with cities?
- Teaching and learning in the 21st -century academy: Do we still need the physical hub of the city in an age of increasing online teaching and learning? How has digital technology impacted on (im)mobility, higher education and language teaching and learning in the 21st century?
- Personified, symbolic, and transnational cities: the city as hero; villain; site of trauma; spiritual symbol; the Republic of Letters; the Lettered City; the City of Ladies.
Pacific Futures: Australasian Cities in Transition (Dec 6-8) (Wellington)
SOAC 2023 considers the future identity of Australasian cities in relation to indigenous communities, trans-Tasman networks, and the wider Asia-Pacific.
https://soac2023.com/
Seen in this context there is a need to revitalise indigenous knowledges, confront colonial legacies, and support inclusive, progressive city identities more explicitly linked to our place in the world. Key challenges include established themes such as social inequality, demographic shifts, population mobility, infrastructure, the growing housing crisis and climate change. These are overlaid by the fall-out from the Covid pandemic which is forcing a rethink about what matters, and is also initiating new forms of urban living and being. For people with deep ancestral roots in Aotearoa and Australia, those currently living in Australasian cities, and people in the wider Asia-Pacific, cities will remain key sites of connection. But many city-dwellers are also integrally linked to rural communities, regional towns and island nations where scale and complexity are vastly different, with further implications for changing demographic, economic and cultural processes. Responding to these intertwined urban futures also means recognising that Australasia cities and communities are increasingly ‘living on the edge’, with coastal adaptation and development, disaster preparedness and the growing instability of biological and environmental systems placing new stresses on living and demanding new ways of framing life. SOAC 2023 will examine our indigenous, trans-Tasman and Asia-Pacific futures, exploring the transitions and transformations necessary for creating cities and communities that respond to Australasian challenges and reflect our distinctive geographies.
Conference Tracks
City Economies ~ City Governance ~ City Health and Liveability ~ City Housing ~ City Movement and Infrastructure ~
City Nature and Environment ~ City Cultures ~ City Design ~ Reckoning with Settler Colonial Cities
The call for abstracts is now open. We invite abstract submissions from urban researchers, policy makers, practitioners, academics and students to the 9 conference tracks (see below). Please submit your abstract (max 400 words) via this submission portal by April 14.
Track chairs will review abstracts and notify presenters at their earliest convenience after the submission deadline.
We also invite proposals for themed sessions within a conference track, that is a grouping of abstracts on a specific theme. If you are interested in proposing such a themed session, please contact the respective track chairs with a list of suggested contributors. All abstracts must be submitted through the general submission portal. Track chairs may suggest allocating other abstracts to the proposed session.
Post abstract acceptance, authors will be given the opportunity to submit a 1000 word summary of their presentation if they wish. This is entirely voluntary, but will be uploaded to the APO website and made publicly available. Guidelines for this will be made available post abstract acceptance.
Students who wish to be considered for the Peter Harrison award best student paper will be invited to submit a longer paper post abstract acceptance.
If you have any questions about a conference track, please contact the track chair(s) or direct any questions on submitting an abstract or the conference in general to the organisers at soac2023@gmail.com
