IV International City and Philosophy Congress: Movement(s) and identity

General information:

The fourth edition of the International Congress Philosophy and City: Movement(s) and identity. It will take place in Krakow from 19-20 September 2024 and will feature Artur Blaim, Yuk Hui and Adedoyin Teriba as keynote speakers.

Western philosophy can be argued to have originated from the cities, among other factors, as a response to the challenges that the city as a space, a technical object and as a community brought with itself. However, when facing the question about the nature of the city itself, it is difficult to provide an answer, due to the city’s heterogeneity, evading clear definition. It cannot be understood solely as an architectural model or a static political organization; rather, it is a human space, inextricably linked to the human agents on the eternal movement(s) of various kinds, where they come into interaction with human and non-human Others. Thus, both: the exploration of the human identity and the urban identity of a place is crucial to the consideration of the identity problem in the context of cities. The city can be said to be the space for exploring the self vs the Other dynamics, and for fostering empathy. It is especially important nowadays, when the cities are experiencing the dynamization of the social space caused by massive and varied migrations, whether we are talking of economic or scientific mobility, or the refugees fleeing war and natural disasters or climate change consequences. It appears that the city always has to be thought of as the meeting space of various actors and realities. In the words of Eric Corijn (Brussels Urban Summit 2023), “a good city is one that we make together”.

The aim of the IV Congress on Philosophy and the City: Movement(s) and Identity is to face the above-sketched challenges from philosophical, interdisciplinary and multicultural viewpoints.

Themes:

1 Urban philosophy: philosophy for the contemporary city.

2 Utopian and dystopian cities.

3 Approaches to identity in the context of urban space.

4 Self vs the Other in the urban space.

5 Identity of the cities in the context of the natural environment/climate changes.

6 Approaches to migrations and human geographies.

7 Managing migrations in contemporary urban spaces.

8 Artistic and literary response to migrations within cities.

9 The urban management and leadership approaches.

10 Cities as spaces of inclusion or exclusion.

11 Cosmotechnics, digital objects, AI and the city.

12 City facing a war.

For abstract submission:

-       The title, abstract and keywords should be sent in Spanish and English.

-       The abstract should have a minimum length of 250 words and a maximum of 275 words.

-       The number of keywords will be 5.

-       If the communication has been produced in the framework of a research project obtained in competitive concurrence, tise information may be indicated in the section “observations” without counting in the number of words.

-       It is compulsory to indicate the thematic line in which you want the abstract to be evaluated, and, on a voluntary basis, a subsidiary thematic line in case the evaluation committee considers that the content of the communication does not fit with the thematic line to which it has been sent.

-       The abstract must be sent to asociacionfilosofiayciudad@gmail.com

Organizing Committe

Anna Bugajska. Associate Professor and the Head of the Language and Culture Studies Department at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow, Poland.

Marek Liszka. Assistant Professor in the Language and Culture Studies Department at the Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland.

Jacek Poznański SJ. Assistant Professor and the Head of the Institute of Philosophy at the Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland

Julia Urabayen. President City and Philosophy Asociation, Professor of Philosophy, University of Navarra, Spain.

Jorge León Casero. Vicepresident City and Philosophy Asociation, Assistant Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Students that collaborate:

Nicolás de Navascués, University of Navarra, Spain.
Mikel Martínez Ciriero, University of Navarra, Spain.

https://www.filosofiayciudad.com/en/congress