3rd CFP: CITIES ON THE MOVE: MOBILITIES AND SENSIBILITIES, 3 – 5 July 2013

3rd CALL FOR PAPERS: due date 18th February 2013*

*CONFERENCE: CITIES ON THE MOVE: MOBILITIES AND SENSIBILITIES * UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE/LAGOON BEACH HOTEL, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 3 ? 5 July 2013*

Urban environments are at the nexus of an extensive social transformation in Africa. New political forms, increased participation of broad populations, and the emergence of new discourses of citizenship are taking place in contexts of massive demographic change, encounters and crossings across laminated and stratified identities of race, ethnicity, class, language, sexuality and gender and technological innovation. These developments are fuelled by vertical and horizontal processes of globalisation refigured through the particularities of the local urban context and local institutions.

A considerable amount of research into cities – and consequently of policy making – treats urban places as more or less fixed, technical objects. By contrast, the myriad personal daily actions, activities, events and conversations that endlessly constitute and reconstitute cities in the image of their inhabitants are less well accounted for. The conference will focus on such city sensibilities of the everyday and experiential, approaching the city as a social construction and as a social imaginary; exploring the production, consumption and appropriation of urban spaces, circulation within them, and the semiotics, spectacle and performativity of the urban.

The conference aims to bring together established and emerging researchers whose research treats urban spaces as highly differentiated and unstable sites, as a multifaceted social and cultural construction whose purpose and sustainability is in the hands of its residents. We seek to encourage the participation of theorists and practitioners within the fields of *architecture, anthropology, film, literature, performance, gender studies, popular culture, visual arts, history and urban studies, geography, sociology, heritage, linguistics and multilingual studies*. One of our intentions is that those studying cities in different parts of the world will enter into dialogue with African city specialists.

*Submission of abstracts*
Abstracts should be submitted online via the website. Abstract guidelines as well as themes for submission are available on our *Cities on the Move* conference website:***http://www.millenniumconferences.co.za/cities/index.php*

*Conference programme*
The conference programme will be finalised once abstracts have been received and assessed. Once the programme is final, it will be made available on the website.

*Conference fees and registration*
*Early Bird Conference registration fee:*R1800.00 per person (3-day conference package)
*Late registration fee:*R1950.00 per person (3-day conference package)
Conference fees exclude accommodation and travel costs, which are for the delegate’s own account.
Registration closes on 30 June 2013, or when the conference is full.

To register for the conference, please visit our *conference website* <http://www.millenniumconferences.co.za/cities/index.php> and register quickly and easily online using the ‘Register now’ button.

*Conference contact*
For more information on the conference, travel and accommodation enquiries, please contact :
Camerine Scott
XL Millennium Travel
Tel: +27-21 590 7900
e -mail: *camerines@millenniumtravel.co.za* <mailto:camerines@millenniumtravel.co.za>