Call for Paper Proposals (New Deadline)

[Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup]

[PLEASE CIRCULATE]
If you would like to present in one of the CityGroup's Graduate
symposiums
for 2008-2009, please send us a working title and/or a couple of lines
about your topic along with the following info:

Name
Academic standing (e.g., 2nd year PhD)
Institutional/departmental affiliation
Preferred time to present (fall, winter, spring)

We don't need fully developed proposals or papers at this point. The
new
date to express your interest is: Monday, October 20, 2008. Please
send an
email to: berkeleystan...@gmail.com. Below please find the
call
for proposals.

Regards,
The Berkeley Organizers


CityGroup 2008-2009: Call for Papers

Thanks to the generous support of the Stanford Humanities Center and
UC
Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities, we are happy to
announce
that the Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup will continue throughout the
upcoming
academic year. We are now looking for graduate students interested in
discussing their research during our interdisciplinary workshop
sessions
planned for 2008-2009.

CityGroup aims to provide a space in which researchers from a variety
of
fields and across university campuses can share their own work,
collaborate on projects, and discuss critical shifts in urban studies.
The group welcomes geographers, planners, anthropologists, historians,
sociologists, architects, and anyone else with a strong interest in
the
social, cultural, material, and political dimensions of cities and
urban
space. Each workshop session contains short presentations by three
graduate students followed by critical commentary from a faculty
discussant and conversation with the audience. CityGroup alternates
between Stanford and UC Berkeley on a regular basis.

We especially encourage advanced graduate students currently working
on
their dissertations to consider presenting a chapter draft or a
recently
completed paper. Those interested should send an email to
berkeleystan...@gmail.com no later than Monday, October 20,
2008
with the following information:



Name

Academic standing (e.g., 2nd year PhD)

Institutional/departmental affiliation

Title of presentation

Preferred time to present (fall, winter, spring)



Feel free to widely distribute this call for papers amongst
potentially
interested colleagues and e-mail distribution lists. To continue to
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