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Fw: CFP (UHG '11): "Leisure, Pleasure and the Urban Spectacle" (29 Oct. Deadline)

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Deb Ranjan Sinha <[log in to unmask]>

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Deb Ranjan Sinha <[log in to unmask]>

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From: Rebecca Madgin <[log in to unmask]>

Urban History Group
Annual Conference
31 March ­ 1 April, 2011
http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2010-06-23/call-papers-urban-history-group-annual-conference-leisure-pleasure-and-urban-spectac

Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK

Call for sessions and papers

LEISURE, PLEASURE AND THE URBAN SPECTACLE

This conference theme broadly explores the pursuit of "pleasure" in the
context of the history of towns and cities. The conference organisers
are interested in investigating the significance of specifically urban
forms of pleasure and leisure for understanding the historical dynamics
of social, economic and cultural relationships. Towns and cities have
historically offered an array of pleasures to cater for ever larger
concentrations of people. The types of leisure activities available to
urban populations have never remained static; indeed, changing social
and economic conditions have transformed popular leisure patterns over
time as well as across urban space. The pursuit of pleasure, both licit
and illicit, has adapted with the changing relationship between work
and leisure. As working hours became increasingly rigid during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so too did leisure time. The lack
of free time was further exacerbated by growing pressures on land use.
Thus, the pursuit of pleasure was increasingly set aside for specific
buildings (inns, brothels, theatres, music halls and, more recently,
fitness centres) or clearly delineated spaces (botanical gardens,
public parks, public walks, gated communities and even the internet)
where access could, in theory, be carefully managed. Cities, seaside
towns and holiday resorts were also developed to specifically cater for
a variety of tastes and pleasures. Once it was recognised that there
was money to be made out of the pursuit of pleasure, cities became
intertwined with the business of leisure and began to market themselves
as centres of tourism, heritage and culture.

Some issues that the conference seeks to consider include:

.     What do we understand by the terms 'pleasure' and 'leisure' in an
urban context?
.     How has the pursuit of pleasure differed between towns and
cities, across national borders and over time?
.     How has leisure been regulated, managed and delivered to urban
citizens? How has regulation and service delivery differed between
public and private authorities?
.   How has urban pleasure been produced, marketed and consumed? How
has this changed in light of the rise of mass tourism and the heritage
industry?
.     What is the relationship between leisure and place identity? In
what ways have specific leisure activities (organised sport, for
example) strengthened local identities where others might have weakened
them?
.     How have urban identities been conditioned by their relationship
with defined pleasurable spaces and/or communities? To what extent has
access to these spaces led to the exclusion of particular social groups
or minorities?
.     What contribution has the business of pleasure made to the
spectacle of urban modernity?
.     In what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be theorised in an urban
historical context?
.     How has urban leisure been represented culturally (through
literature, film, television, etc.)? Has this influenced the diffusion
of specific types of leisure internationally?

The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as
well as for individual sessions of up to three papers. Sessions that
seek to draw comparisons across one or more countries, or open up new
vistas for original research, are particularly encouraged. Abstracts of
up to 500 words, including a title, name, affiliation and contact
details should be submitted to the honorary conference organiser and
should indicate clearly how the content of the paper addresses the
conference theme outlined above. Those wishing to propose sessions
should provide a brief statement that identifies the ways in which the
session will address the conference theme, a list of speakers and paper
abstracts. The final deadline for proposals for sessions and papers is
29 October 2010.

In addition, the conference will again host its new researchers' forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a
research project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than
present findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics
unrelated to the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new
research, are particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this
forum.

Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses
associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail
application to Prof. Richard Rodger at [log in to unmask] and ask
your PhD supervisor to also send a message confirming your status as a
registered PhD student. The Urban History Group would like to
acknowledge the Economic History Society for its support for these
bursaries.


For further details please contact:

Dr. Shane Ewen (hon. conference organiser) School of Cultural Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University Broadcasting Place Woodhouse Lane LEEDS
LS2 9EN United Kingdom

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Tel: +44 (0) 113 812 3340
Fax: +44 (0) 113 812 3112

Rebecca Madgin
Urban Studies Research Fellow
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudies/staff/rebeccamadgin/ 

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