INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
URBAN CONFLICTS
ETHNO-NATIONAL DIVISIONS, STATES AND CITIES
19 – 21 May 2011,
Queen’s University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
This multi-disciplinary conference aims to further our understandings of the nature and
dynamics of ethno-national conflicts as manifested in divided cities. Conversely, it questions
how cities and everyday urban life are used – and abused – in the containment of these wider
national conflicts, and it explores their potential for achieving the self-sustaining moderation,
constructive channelling or resolution of conflict.
The conference aims to enhance dialogue between academics and non-academic policy
practitioners and community activists. It will include plenary and parallel sessions, round table
discussions, key-note speakers – including Saskia Sassen – and a guided tour of Belfast’s
‘peacewalls’ and ‘shared spaces’.
There will be more information on our website later in the year, but Abstracts should be submitted
by 31 October 2010. For further details, see the Call for Papers.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference adopts a multi-dimensional and multi-level approach to ethno-nationally divided
cities, historical and contemporary. It incorporates questions of empire, national state and city
interrelationships, international and historical comparisons, city planning and regeneration,
political, economic and cultural developments, everyday life, violence, resistance and agonistic
urbanism.