[Discussion] CFP: Urban Culture (6/25/04; MAPACA, 11/5/04-11/7/04)

[sule tarakcioglu]

Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture
Association, Buffalo, New York, November 5-7th, 2004.


=93When a man rides a long time through wild regions, he feels the desire
for a city,=94 writes Italo Calvino in his beautiful account of imaginary
urban environments, Invisible Cities. The Urban Culture area of MPCA/ACA
seeks presenters who explore the varied ways in which humans inhabit the
city (real, imaginary, lost) and negotiate their urban desires. Papers
addressing issues such as displacement, multi-cultural encounter,
hybridization, and the production or loss of public space in the context
of the metropolitan city are welcome. How do the home, the museum,
world=92s fairs, ethnic food, architecture, spoken and written word,
street performance, photography, film, sound, music, and movement, help
us inscribe the city and to what end? How does the city inscribe us?
Historical or ethnographic studies of cities, poetic accounts of
personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly
orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in
the city are en
couraged. If interested in participating in a workshop on =93writing the
urban,=94 in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so.

Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as
virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova,
bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 25th, 2004.

Blagovesta Momchedjikova,
Department of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu


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