- Conference Theme
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- Organising Committee
- Review Committee
- Reviewers
- Conference Proceedings
- Abstracts
- Virtual Presentations (4)
- Grant & Scholarship Recipients
"Cities of the World. World Cities."
July 14–16, 2017 | NH Collection Barcelona Constanza, Barcelona, Spain
History has long shown an ambivalence towards the city. On the one hand, it has been the metropolis, a necessary, vital site of commerce and culture. On the other it has been considered the fallen place, at once dangerous and shadowed in crime.
This ambivalence holds across continents, from the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Australasia. How, in an age of transnationalism and global media, should we regard these cities?
What are our prevailing images of the city as past and present, magnet and threat? Do cities retain their lustre as citadels of enlightenment and art or are they urban dinosaurs wracked by over-crowdedness and pollution?
IAFOR’s forthcoming conference on the city is an exciting addition to our global conference calendar. It will place the international, intercultural and interdisciplinary tenets of IAFOR at the very heart of multiple academic approaches to the city, from the development of the classic city states east and west, to the emergence of the vast organisms that are our modern cities.
Different cities have very different personalities, influenced, for example, by history, government, climate, and geographical location – from uptight financial powerhouses to relaxed tourist resorts, they are governed in different ways, and compete against each other for attention and resources, sometimes domestically, but also with other foreign rivals. This conference encourages interdisciplinary and comparative reflections from the world’s cities, from small cathedral city to sprawling metropolis.
The city has always been a centre of creativity and imagination. The many cultures that are formed within the city have become definitive of the development of human civilisation in different eras. From the cities that were the product of the ancient river civilisations on the Nile and the Tigris Euphrates or the Ganges and the Yellow River, to the classical and medieval city states, to the modern cities of the industrial revolution, the city provides an exciting object of study. The conference is set up to encourage the exploration of the city in all its variations and to provide a further context for reflections on globalisation as the wave of today and tomorrow.
CITY2017 Conference Photographs
Human interaction is at the root of all knowledge creation, and hence the great importance of the conference in introducing, testing and spreading ideas through challenging, rigorous and thought provoking discussion and debate. But beyond that, a conference is also a great chance to meet people from around the world, and to extend and grow ones’s professional network, and above all, to make friends.
It may be impossible to tell the story of the conference, or rather the many hundreds of interlocking stories that go to make up the conference, but the documentary photography in this slideshow aims to give a taster of the more serious academic side of the event, as well as the lighter side…
Programme
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Memory and the Modern CityKeynote Presentation: Dr Simon Sleight -
Intersectional Realities, Law and Belonging. Not?Keynote Presentation: Professor Adrien Katherine Wing -
Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in UkraineFeatured Film Screening & Featured Presentation: Professor Mark Jonathan Harris -
My Barcelona – The City as Answer to a Personal QuestionFeatured Presentation: Gloria Montero -
My MoscowFeatured Presentation: Professor Svetlana Ter-Minasova -
Refuge: Refugee: Moonlight and Precarious LoveFeatured Presentation: Professor Baden Offord -
The Challenges of Doing Cultural Studies TodayFeatured Panel Presentation: Professor Donald E. Hall, Professor Baden Offord, Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn, Professor Svetlana Ter-Minasova -
Gastronomy for a Healthy Ageing WorldFeatured Presentation: Dr Elena Urdaneta, Basque Culinary Center, Spain & Iñigo Cojo, Basque Culinary Center, Spain -
Daily Life: What a Precarious State We Live InFeatured Panel Presentation: John Rochlin, Dr Francesc Llauradó & Peter Sotirakis -
Urban Monsters: The Edgy Japanese Folkloric Fiction of Yukimi OgawaSpotlight Presentation: Dr Richard Donovan -
The Place of Artistic Innovation: Local Area Characteristics and Arts Growth in ArlesSpotlight Presentation: Dr Elena Raevskikh -
IAFOR Silk Road Initiative Information SessionProfessor Georges Depeyrot, Dr Ljiljana Markovic & Dr Joseph Haldane
Speakers
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Gloria MonteroNovelist, Playwright & Poet -
Professor Baden OffordCentre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia & Cultural Studies Association of Australasia -
Dr A. Robert LeeNihon University, Japan (retd.) -
Professor Emerita Sue BallynUniversity of Barcelona, Spain -
Dr Simon SleightKing's College London, UK -
Dean Adrien Katherine WingUniversity of Iowa College of Law, USA -
Professor Donald E. HallLehigh University, USA -
Professor Mark Jonathan HarrisDirector, Producer & Writer | University of Southern California, USA -
Professor Svetlana Ter-MinasovaLomonosov Moscow State University, Russia -
Peter SotirakisWriter, Translator & Independent Scholar -
John RochlinAustralia Spain Business Association (ASBA), Spain -
Dr Elena UrdanetaBasque Culinary Center, Spain -
Dr Francesc LlauradóNufarm Germany, Germany -
Professor Georges DepeyrotFrench National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France -
Dr Ljiljana MarkovicUniversity of Belgrade, Serbia -
Dr Bill PhillipsUniversity of Barcelona, Spain -
Professor Myles ChiltonNihon University, Japan -
Dr Cornelis Martin RenesUniversity of Barcelona, Spain -
Dr Elena RaevskikhFrench National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre Norbert Elias, France -
Dr Richard DonovanKansai University, Japan
Organising Committee
The Organising Committee of The IAFOR International Conference on the City (CITY) is composed of distinguished academics who are experts in their fields. Organising Committee members may also be members of IAFOR's International Academic Advisory Board. The Organising Committee is responsible for nominating and vetting Keynote and Featured Speakers; developing the conference programme, including special workshops, panels, targeted sessions, and so forth; event outreach and promotion; recommending and attracting future Organising Committee members; working with IAFOR to select PhD students and early career academics for IAFOR-funded grants and scholarships; and overseeing the reviewing of abstracts submitted to the conference.
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Professor Baden OffordCentre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia & Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
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Dr A. Robert LeeNihon University, Japan (retd.)
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Professor Emerita Sue BallynUniversity of Barcelona, Spain
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Professor Donald E. HallLehigh University, USA
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Dr Bill PhillipsUniversity of Barcelona, Spain
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Professor Myles ChiltonNihon University, Japan
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Dr Cornelis Martin RenesUniversity of Barcelona, Spain
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Dr Joseph HaldaneThe International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan -
Kiyoshi ManaThe International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
Review Committee
- Dr Aimite Jorge, University of Namibia, Namibia
- Dr Andrea Bellot, Rovira I Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
- Professor Bayez Enayati, Urmia University, Iran
- Dr Dhyan Singh, Govt. P.G. College Dharamshala, India
- Dr Diana Rios, University of Connecticut, United States
- Dr Elena Raevskikh, Centre Norbert Elias - Marseille, France
- Dr Eugenia Charoni, Flagler College, United States
- Dr Gala Maria Follaco, University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy
- Professor Hulya Yuceer, Adana Science and Technology University, Turkey
IAFOR's peer review process, which involves both reciprocal review and the use of Review Committees, is overseen by conference Organising Committee members under the guidance of the Academic Governing Board. Review Committee members are established academics who hold PhDs or other terminal degrees in their fields and who have previous peer review experience.
If you would like to apply to serve on the CITY Review Committee, please visit our application page.
CITY2017 Reviewers
IAFOR depends on the assistance of a large number of international academics and practitioners who contribute in a variety of ways to our shared mission of promoting international exchange, facilitating intercultural awareness, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion and generating and sharing new knowledge. Our academic events would not be what they are without a commitment to ensuring that international norms of peer review are observed for our presentation abstracts. With thousands of abstracts submitted each year for presentation at our conferences, IAFOR relies on academics around the world to ensure a fair and timely peer review process in keeping with established international norms of double-blind peer review. We are grateful for the time, effort and expertise donated by all our contributors.
CITY2017 Virtual Presentations
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is a research organisation, conference organiser and publisher dedicated to encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating intercultural awareness and promoting international exchange, principally through educational exchange and academic research.
Virtual presentations afford authors the opportunity to present their research to IAFOR’s far-reaching and international online audience, without time restrictions, distractions or the need to travel. Presenters are invited to create a video of their presentation, which is then uploaded to the official IAFOR Vimeo channel and remains online indefinitely. This is a valuable and impactful way of presenting in its own right, but also an alternative means for those delegates who may be unable to travel to the conference due to financial or political restrictions. The same publishing opportunities apply to virtual presenters, with final papers being included in the Conference Proceedings.
Author Information
Tina Dixson, Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Renee Dixson, University of New South Wales, Australia
Smartcities As Utopia: A Postmodern Reality and a Modern Ideal
Author Information
Didier Alessio Contadini, University of Milan, Italy
Author Information
Mohd Aquil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Ecofeminist Ethics for Sustainable Urban Public Space
Author Information
Rucha Newalkar, Iowa State University, United States
Andrea Wheeler, Iowa State University, United States
CITY2017 Grant & Scholarship Recipients
Our warmest congratulations go to Mohd Aquil, Blanca Barreto Puente, Donna Banks, Seoungin Choi and Harriet Gaffney, who have been selected by the conference Organising Committees to receive grants and scholarships to present their research at The IAFOR International Conference on the City 2018 and The IAFOR International Conference on Global Studies 2018.
IAFOR’s grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early career academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on the appropriateness of the educational opportunity in relation to the applicant’s field of study, financial need, and contributions to their community and to IAFOR’s mission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships are awarded based on availability of funds from IAFOR and vary with each conference.
The Organising Committee of the relevant IAFOR conference awards scholarships to eligible applicants who have submitted exceptional abstracts that have passed the blind peer review process and have been accepted for presentation at the conference.
Stuart D. B. Picken Grant & Scholarship Recipient
Mohd Aquil is currently enrolled in the Master of Philosophy programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and studies modern history. He has completed his Master of Arts in Modern History and Bachelor of Arts at the Center for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at JNU. He is currently researching urban history with a focus on urban and public culture, civic and municipal ideas. His current focus is on a city in North India, Allahabad, in the period of British colonialism.
City of a Nation and a Nation of Cities: Jawaharlal Nehru and the Civic Consciousness of Anti-Colonial Nationalism in India
Mohd Aquil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
IAFOR–Barcelona University Scholarship Recipient
Blanca Barreto Puente is a PhD candidate in the English Department of the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her main interest lies in the study of Renaissance Epic and the manner in which gender roles are represented in Early Modernity. Her current research is centered on the examination of the female warrior figures in Margaret Cavendish's works and the political resistance of said writer.
Cross-Temporal Icons: Amazonian Globality
Blanca Barreto Puente, University of Barcelona, Spain
IAFOR–Barcelona University Scholarship Recipient
Donna Banks is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Barcelona, Spain. She has an interdisciplinary background in art history, cultural history, and visual anthropology. She previously earned an MA in history from Temple University, Philadelphia, and an MA in art history from Howard University in Washington, DC.
A Critical Analysis of the Economic Benefit of Public Art
Donna Banks, University of Barcelona, Spain
IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
Seoungin Choi graduated from Hanyang University, majoring in politics and diplomacy, and is now studying international politics at the same university and planning to study further. Seoungin Choi’s interests are international politics, politics, theories and political sociology.
Theoretical Implications of Cosmopolitanism and Korean Textbooks Analysis
Seoungin Choi, Hanyang University, South Korea
IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
Harriet Gaffney is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Australia, with Honours and Masters degrees in professional and creative writing from Deakin University. Her research seeks to unsettle notions of place, sovereignty, and belonging in the post-colonial context. In 2015 Harriet was awarded the Varuna Eric Dark Fellowship to further this work. In 2014 she won the Writers Victoria Regional Writers Award for the short story “Recognition”, and in 2012 received The Grace Marion Wilson Award for the creative non-fiction piece “A Battered Heart”.
Romancing Theft, Writing Belonging
Harriet Gaffney, Griffith University, Australia
