Intro

This October, The Philosophy of the City Research Group will meet in the City of Bilbao, Spain. We hope that you can join us. While the call for papers is open to any relevant topic, we encourage submissions that address the areas below.

Suggested Topics

• Philosophy of (and in) Urban Planning
• The City in the History of Philosophy
• New Governances and Urban Policies
• Productive, Sustainable Cities: Technology, Infrastructure, Environment and Urban Mobility
• Urban Regeneration, Segregation and Gentrification
• Urban Peripheries: Social Institutions, Policies, and Territories
• The Social Production of the Habitat and the Urban Commons
• Urban Justice and Right to the City
• Political Antagonism, Social Movements, Urban Conflict and Urban Resilience
• Public Space: Identities, Heterotopias and New Public Spaces
• Art and Music in the City
• Neighbourhood & Domesticity
• Urban Tourism Challenges
• Big Data and Smart Cities
• The City and the Mind
• Urban Aesthetics

Keynotes

• Richard Sennett (London School of Economics)
• Paula Cristina Pereira (Universidade do Porto)
• Francisco Colom González (Centre for Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council)

Submissions

Submissions can be in English or Spanish. Submission of abstracts (350 words, prepared for anonymous review) via EasyChair by June 1, 2019.

Submissions in Spanish should arrive by April 1, 2020.

All abstracts will be evaluated in three aspects:

1. Is the abstract about cities?
2. Is the abstract about Philosophy (broadly understood)?
3. Is it good and likely to stimulate an interesting debate at the conference?

Send questions to Shane Epting, Conference Chair: shane.epting@mst.edu