Urban Geography Research Group Annual Conference

Urban Geography Research Group Annual Conference

6-7 November 2008
Queen Mary, University of London

Call for Contributions

Building on two earlier conferences - Paradigmatic Cities? and Approaching
the City - this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities
of 'the urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the
urban' or 'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth
by research that, for instance: challenges conventional representations
and hierarchies of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops
research into 'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of
inhabiting urban space; re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive
methods of investigating urban experiences.

Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into
creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of
urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in
the field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way
restricted to):

* gender and sexuality
* methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative, participatory
* non-'Western' urban experiences
* poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
* post-coloniality
* regeneration projects and everyday life
* socio-technical materialities
* suburban studies
* practice, activism and politics

Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations,
shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We
hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that
engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice.
Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of
their careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for
postgraduates.

If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact Margo Huxley
at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk or Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk

Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008



Dr Richard G. Smith,

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography,

Centre for Urban Theory,

Department of Geography,

School of Environment & Society

Swansea University,

Singleton Park,

Swansea,

SA28PP,

UK

Email: r.g.smith@swan.ac.uk

Tel: +44(0)1792 602558

Fax: +44(0)1792 295955

Web Page:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrich
ardg/

Forthcoming Book, Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories:

http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Jean-Baudrillard-isbn9780415464420

Forthcoming Event (welcoming Paper & Poster Submissions), UGRG Annual
Conference "Urban MultipliCITIES":

http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/