[Discussion] CFP: Urban Culture (6/15/05, MAPACA, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Blagovesta Momchedjikova <bmm202@nyu.edu>

Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture
Association,
New Brunswick, NJ, November 4-6th, 2005


The focus of this year's Urban Culture area is the current state of 
cities. We
seek presenters who explore the varied ways in which cities are changing (or
not) and the continuous efforts of people to make cities more habitable. 
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, museum, street performance, ethnic food,
architecture, spoken and written word, photography, film, sound, music, and
movement, help us negotiate our urban desires and to what end? What is 
the role
of new technologies in such negotiation? 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 encouraged. If interested in participating in a workshop on
"writing the urban," in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so.

Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts (including preliminary titles and
current contact information) and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word
attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 15th, 2005.

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



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