CFP: ‘Persistent Spaces: politics, aesthetics and topography in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century city’ Back

CFP: ‘Persistent Spaces: politics, aesthetics and topography in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century city’ 

Two-day postgraduate conference, 12th-13th December 2013, Université Paris Diderot; abstract to be submitted by 13th October 2013

Our two-day postgraduate conference will explore the evolving configurations of the urban space from the Enlightenment to the late-19th century. We will consider the accumulating and interpenetrating layers that make up the 18th- and 19th-century city. 

London and Paris will be our main focus, but this palimpsestic model may be extended elsewhere, and we will welcome abstracts centring on other cities.

Interdisciplinarity will be key to our conference. 

We hope to attract researchers from various fields, including literature and the
arts, sociology, philosophy, law, science and engineering, etc. Through this ‘decompartmentalized’
approach, we will attempt to shed light on the myriad facets of the 18th-
and 19th-century city. We will do our best to circulate our CFP on as
many academic networks as possible, in order to foster interdisciplinarity.

The full description is attached.