Online conference "Philosophy of the City Now: Around the World in 24 Hours"

The conference will take place fully online on May 17, 2021, UTC 00:00–23:59. While only the  most dedicated might be willing to join us for 24 hours, we hope that everybody will have a  chance to participate in the event for a while in accordance with your local time zone. In  addition, we would like to facilitate collaboration in our global community by organizing the  event in a jointly manner. Since this event is organized by time zones, it means that  Johannesburg and Amsterdam will share the same conference time. Also, we aim to create  overlap in the time zones in this program so that it will cross continents, so for instance London  and New York will share a session.  

We will have one main video stream with lectures and panel discussion, which will form the  center stage and the backbone of the event. We will leave it to our co-hosts to add additional  (hybrid) elements to the event. 

Theme and scope 

We especially invite scholars to reflect on the role of the city in the current pandemic and how  our relationships to cities may change in a Post-COVID situation. This may include but is  certainly not limited to topics such as urban resilience, architecture and public health, and  sustainable development in time of crisis. 

But the conference will also be open to non-Covid related research. We particularly encourage  submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers. 

Presentations should be approx. 20 minutes long. Q&A will be enabled via chat function or  according to the moderator’s instructions. By default, all presentations should be in English, but we are open for variations.