INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
\nURBAN CONFLICTS
\nETHNO-NATIONAL DIVISIONS, STATES AND CITIES
\n19 \u2013 21 May 2011,
\nQueen\u2019s University Belfast
\nwww.qub.ac.uk<\/p>\n
This multi-disciplinary conference aims to further our understandings of the nature and
\ndynamics of ethno-national conflicts as manifested in divided cities. Conversely, it questions
\nhow cities and everyday urban life are used – and abused – in the containment of these wider
\nnational conflicts, and it explores their potential for achieving the self-sustaining moderation,
\nconstructive channelling or resolution of conflict.
\nThe conference aims to enhance dialogue between academics and non-academic policy
\npractitioners and community activists. It will include plenary and parallel sessions, round table
\ndiscussions, key-note speakers \u2013 including Saskia Sassen – and a guided tour of Belfast\u2019s
\n\u2018peacewalls\u2019 and \u2018shared spaces\u2019.
\nThere will be more information on our website later in the year, but Abstracts should be submitted
\nby 31 October 2010. For further details, see the Call for Papers.
\nCALL FOR PAPERS
\nThe conference adopts a multi-dimensional and multi-level approach to ethno-nationally divided
\ncities, historical and contemporary. It incorporates questions of empire, national state and city
\ninterrelationships, international and historical comparisons, city planning and regeneration,
\npolitical, economic and cultural developments, everyday life, violence, resistance and agonistic
\nurbanism.<\/p>\n