From Glory… to Grave?: “Dead Cities” throughout Time and Space

CfP: From Glory… to Grave?: “Dead Cities” throughout Time and Space

Veranstalter
Ismael Biyashev
Ausrichter
Ismael Biyashev
Veranstaltungsort
University of Michigan
PLZ
48104
Ort
Ann Arbor
Land
United States
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
01.05.2025 -
Deadline
15.09.2024
Von
Aleksandr Turbin, History Department, UIC

This collection seeks to pursue echoes and murmurs between dead cities throughout time and space to develop a theory of "urban deadness” widely construed, by bringing together a group of interested scholars across disciplines.

CfP: From Glory… to Grave?: “Dead Cities” throughout Time and Space

Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume and Symposium
From Glory… to Grave?: “Dead Cities” throughout Time and Space.

Editors:
Ismael Biyashev (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Vyta Pivo (University of Miami)

Contact Email: deadcities.conference@gmail.com
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: September 15, 2024

Dead cities, ghost towns, zombie neighborhoods—death has structured how we relate to and understand historic and contemporary urban environments across cultural contexts. Deployed readily across disciplines and discursive traditions since at least the middle of the 19th century, the condition of urban deadness has resonated widely. What constitutes the “death” of “urban” spaces and the “urbanity” of “dead” spaces? How is this death recorded, represented, and experienced by urban residents? In what ways do dead cities continue to live in physical ruins, memories, and stories in a variety of media, and continue to shape urban environments today? How do dead cities matter for the development of new and future cities?

This collection seeks to pursue echoes and murmurs between dead cities throughout time and space to develop a theory of "urban deadness” widely construed, by bringing together a group of interested scholars across disciplines.

Contributors are invited to submit proposals engaging with a variety of themes, including but not limited to:

- The phenomenon of “dead cities” in deep historical time
- Cultural landscapes of death
- Eco-catastrophe and dead cities
- Representation of dead cities in popular culture and literature
- Urban metaphors from a historical perspective
- Memory and materiality of urban change
- Ghost cities and empty megacities
- Obsolescence
- Urban renewal policies
- Capitalism and urban death
- Political conflict and war
- Spaces and architectures of death
- Dead cities and posthumanism
- Social resistance and ruination and urban space

Please submit abstracts (500 words) and a short bio by September 15, 2024, to deadcities.conference@gmail.com.
Contributors will be notified by December 15, 2024.
Symposium date May 2025.

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