[Kaupunkitutkimus] CFP "(Im)Possible Cities", Tampere 23.-24.8.2017

[Lieven Ameel]

We are welcoming scholars interested in urban writing to the first international conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS), to be organized at the University of Tampere on 23-24 August 2017!



With the overall theme of (Im)Possible Cities, the conference explores the complex relationships between city imaginaries and real-world cities. The theme straddles a variety of fields, including literary urban studies, urban planning theory, cultural geography, and future studies. The two keynote speakers are Ayona Datta (King's College London) and Eric Prieto (University of California, Santa Barbara).



Please see the full CFP in attachment or at www.uta.fi/conference/impossiblecities2017<http://www.uta.fi/conference/impossiblecities2017> .

We invite papers on subjects including, but certainly not limited to, the following themes:

  *   literary expressions of urban utopianism
  *   urban utopias and dystopias
  *   theories of (im)possibility and cities
  *   visionary thinking and literary cities
  *   ideal literary cities
  *   future studies and literary urban studies
  *   (im)possible cities and postcolonialism
  *   referentiality and the literary city
  *   city imaginaries and urban branding and/or urban planning
  *   readerly experiences of (im)possible cities
  *   enactivism and the literary city
  *   links between literature and the conceptual/imagined cities of architecture and film
  *   modernist and postmodernist cities
  *   literary cities and the surreal

The deadline for paper proposals is 31 March 2017. Please submit proposals (approximately 300 words) via the online form at https://www.lyyti.in/impossiblecities2017_callforpapers.


On behalf of the organizing committee and the Association,


Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel & Jason Finch