CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

Original and unpublished abstracts are accepted from individuals from various fields, including students, academicians and industry experts.

The abstract can align with (but not limited to) the following sub-themes:

• Urban Narratives

  • Literature on and around Cities, including memoirs

  • Memory and its contestations in Cities as discursive node

  • Fantasy/ Utopian and Dystopian Cities in Literature

  • Cityscape as Literary Character

  • Cities as Epicentres of Culture and Heritage construction

  • Metropolitan Chronotypes in Literature

  • Urban Palimpsest in writing

• Urban Linguistics

  • Languages and Semiotic Resources in Urban Centres

  • Cultural Meanings created through Urban Accents and Dialects 

  • Sound and Language in shaping the metropolitan 

  • Translating the Urban Space 

• Urban Architecture and Advertising

  • Tourism and Advertisements

  • Mobility and Accessibility 

  • Monuments and Governmental Strategies, Civic Commons 

• Cities as Sites of Political Action

  • Revolution and resistance stemming from urban spaces

  • Cities as vulnerable sites for external aggression

  • Urban Resilience

  • Grassroots movements and initiatives

• Cities and Popular Culture

  • Cinematic representation of Cities

  • Depictions of the urban in music/ art

  • Urban pop culture and cosmopolitan trends

  • Fandoms and other subcultures in city spaces

• Cities and Hybridity

  • Cosmopolitanism

  • Self and communal identity

  • Socio-economic intersectionality

  • Migrant Integration and Social Adjustment

• Re-imagining Cities and Sustainable City Planning

  • Sustainable City Planning

  • Ecological Urbanism

  • Gentrification and Cultural Shifts

  • Spatial chaos and Urban Sprawl

  • Critical Urban Theories

• Postmodern Anxieties

  • Postmodern Urbanism

  • Means of Production in the Capitalist Economy