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The Street and the City IV - Moments

SC2022  
 Conference CFP

When:

  07 Sep 2022 through 09 Sep 2022

CFP Deadline:

  30 Apr 2022

Where:

  Lisbon, Portugal

Website URL:

  https://thestreetandthecitylx4.wordpress.com/

Sponsoring organization:

  University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies

Categories:

  Arts & Humanities - Languages/Literature

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Event description:

Cities come alive and build themselves from moments. Moments we breathe in the present, moments that shape both collective and individual memories. All these memories drift from a solitary pace in a crowd, to a dialogue between us and the other united by the urb. As in Dickens’s words (1859) “a multitude of people and yet a solitude.” This conference aims at approaching topics from the past, both nearby or further away; topics from the present, globally, locally or glocally relevant and topics from the future – real or imaginary. Munford (1961) states that “the origins of the city are obscure, a large part of its past buried or effaced beyond recovery, and its further prospects are difficult to weigh.” We propose the analysis of moments of political and social unrest, which affect the everyday city life emptying the streets and making the ordinary socializing scenarios something of the past, as well as projects that look for answers and mitigation actions that can soothe such sc... Read more

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