CFP, "Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia", Feb 2017, Hong Kong
Introduction
What will the future city be like in the Asian context? Globalization has brought profound changes and uncertainties to Asian cities, and has led to the transformation of communities in terms of their physical, social, and cultural space. While some groups are beneficiaries of change, often specific communities are marginalized, due to such factors as ethnicity, gender, age, and family and religious status. In an era of change, cultural diversity and traditional capital, together with eminent vicissitudes are important resources and are critical in stimulating more creative energies. This conference seeks to ask: What are some of the new tensions as society integrates and/or diversifies? How do individual agency and community innovation contribute to a new urban existence? What are the institutional and cultural reservoirs that foster social resilience? Are there alternative modernities? This international conference provides an interdisciplinary forum on which scholars critically examine and imagine the future city together.
Date
Conference: 23-24 February, 2017 (Thursday-Friday)
Optional fieldtrip: 25 February, 2017 (Saturday)
Venue
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Themes
Conference subthemes include:
- Built Environment
- Conservation and construction of heritages
- Dis/integrating neighborhoods
- Public/private space and urban life
- Leisure, play, and recreation
- Cultural Practices
- Media and cultural identities
- Art and social engagement
- Religions and rituals in an intercultural city
- Food and health as cultural resource
- Social Groupings
- Forms of migration and marginality
- Ethnicity and gender frameworks
- Youth/ageing communities as innovators
- Family and parenthoods
Other topics relevant to the theme of the conference but not included in the above list are also welcome.
Organizer
Centre of Urban History, Culture and Media, Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Call for Papers Deadline
Individual papers or panel proposals should be sent to cuhcmconference@cuhk.edu.hk by 15 November 2016. For details, please visit http://iofc.cuhk.edu.hk/cuhcmconference/call-for-papers/
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