FW: African Urbanisms Conference, Wits University, October 2024 - Call for session proposals
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International Conference “African Urbanisms. Critical Engagements, Transformative Practices, Alternative Futures”, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23-25 October 2024
The Wits-TUB-UniLag Urban Lab is pleased to announce the “African Urbanisms” conference that will be hosted by Wits University from October 23 to 26 2024. The call for session proposals is now open! Session proposals can be submitted until January 21 2024. If you consider submitting a proposal please make sure to check the detailed information on the conference theme and the submission modalities on our website.
Conference Theme
The conference explores the multiplicity of interlinked African urbanisms as a starting point to question the status quo of urban policies and planning paradigms, to seek transformative practices that present alternatives to “business as usual” urban development, and to imagine alternative urban futures. Therefore, the conference aims to bring together work at different scales, exploring urbanisation experiences and relating these to each other. This may range from contributions on local phenomena and challenges, work that explores experiences shared across various cities on the continent, to research on the ways in which African urbanisms influence and/or are impacted by the world beyond the continent. The conference will address these issues in three different thematic streams: Critical Engagements, Transformative Practices and Alternative Futures.
Please find the full concept note on the conference website: https://www.urban-sdg-school.org/african-urbanisms/theme
Conference Details
The conference will take place from October 23 to October 26 and will be hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning on Wits University’s East Campus, Braamfontein, Johannesburg. The conference will be in-person and participation will be free of charge. Each paper session will be 90 minutes long, 30 minutes should be reserved for discussion.
The Wits-TUB-UniLag Urban Lab is organising the conference. The project is collaboration between Wits University’s School of Architecture and Planning, TU Berlin’s Habitat Unit (Institute of Architecture) and the University of Lagos’s Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development focusing on graduate education in the urban disciplines across the African continent funded by DAAD/BMZ.
Key dates
Closing date for session proposals: 21 January 2024
Issuing of the call for abstracts under approved sessions: 12 February 2024
Closing date for abstract submissions: 21 April 2024
Information on the acceptance of submissions for presentations: 24 May 2024
Conference: 23-26 October 2024
For more information and updates please check our website: https://www.urban-sdg-school.org/african-urbanisms
How to submit a session proposal
We invite session proposals under the conference’s three thematic streams (Critical Engagements, Transformative Practices, Alternative Futures) that initiate discussions that contribute to advance the respective discourse. Sessions may focus on theoretical, methodological, empirical or pedagogical aspects. In order to convene a session, you must be able to participate in the conference in person.
In the template we provide for submission of proposals, please provide us with the following details of your session:
- session title
- name, affiliation and email of session organiser(s) and a discussant (if applicable)
- abstract (up to 250 words) and three to five keywords
- One of the three conference themes it contributes to
You can submit your proposal (using the template) and an academic CV of at least one convenor to Africanurb...@wits.ac.za until January 21 2024.
Please carefully read the full instructions for the submission of proposals on our website, https://www.urban-sdg-school.org/african-urbanisms/call.
Lucas-Andrés Elsner
He/him – er/him
Researcher & Doctoral Candidate
Habitat Unit, Chair of International Urbanism and Design, www.habitat-unit.de
Technische Universität Berlin, School VI Planning Building Environment, Department of Architecture
Office A064
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