Please find below details of the annual conference of City-Centric<https://thisiscitycentric.wordpress.com/>, taking place on 13th July at King's College, London. For the 2015 conference, we invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on the topic of surveillance. The deadline for submissions is 22nd May.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
All the best,
Penny
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CFP: 2015 Annual Conference of City-Centric at King's College, London
13th July | Surveillance
City-Centric is an interdisciplinary urban studies reading group based within the English Department at King's College, London. The group aims to gather together graduate students and staff from across a range of academic disciplines with a particular interest in the urban environment. The city is a space of encounter, distance, connection and absence: in the city, taxonomies of class, race, gender and sexuality, become challenged and affirmed by interplays involving human spatial practices and nonhuman things, buildings, places and spaces.
For the 2015 Annual Conference of City-Centric, we invite paper presentations on the theme of surveillance: on how we are surveilled, watched, witnessed, analysed and monitored, on the politics of mediation and digitization, on mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy, and on how surveillance is activated, normalised, resisted, affected and intersects with urban spatial practices.
Themes might include, but are not limited to:
* Panopticism, technology and urban surveillance;
* Police and state surveillance in the city;
* Mappings, territorializations and governance;
* Regulating/disciplining gender and sexuality in the city;
* Terrorism and surveillance in the city;
* Territorial stigmatization and urban control.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Matthew Beaumont (Department of English, UCL)
additional guests tbc
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, for presentations of 20 minutes, to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] The deadline for proposals is midnight Friday 22nd May.
The group is collaboratively run by Penny Newell (King's College, London) and Júlia Braga-Neves (King's College, London/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Please contact us for more information regarding the conference, or visit the website?<https://thisiscitycentric.wordpress.com/>. We look forward to reading your proposals.
Penny Newell, BA (Hons.), MA
PhD Candidate in English Research,
King's College London
Co-Convenor, Research with Reach<http://www.researchwithreach.wordpress.com>
http://about.me/penny_en/
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