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ArgumentThe aim of this two-day conference is to bring together young researchers to explore the city and its ideologies from a fully interdisciplinary perspective. We would like to combine approaches from the fields of literature and the arts, sociology, philosophy, law, science and engineering in order to create a dialogue between disciplines and methodologies.This conference would also establish a dialogue between the 18th and the 19th centuries. We will seek to highlight the individual specificities of these two periods, but also to understand the echoes, continuities and breaks between them. From the Enlightenment to the late nineteenth century and before urbanism was fully established as a discipline, the city was constantly being configured and reconfigured by the joint influences of architects, civil engineers, political organizations, associations and the informal &#8216;practices&#8217; of inhabitants. Writers and artists also play a major part in this process, both picking up on these developments and changing them through the aesthetics they deploy.The conference will shed light on the city as a topography of struggle, a site of conflicting and interpenetrating layers, changing yet also persisting through time and space, and continually shaped by tensions between authority and resistance.Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:Authority, ideology, urban planning and everyday &#8216;practices&#8217;Coherence or fragmentation of the urban space (home and workplace, centre and slums, etc.)Geographical juxtapositions / temporal superimpositions of spacesPopulation, mobility and living conditionsTechnological developments and urban networks18th/19th century continuity and breaks18th-century ideas persisting and materializing in the 19th centuryComparisons between / specificity of London and ParisSubmission guidelinesPapers will last for 20 minutes and will be followed by 15-minute discussions.Abstracts no longer than 300 words should be sent toClemence Follea (clemence.follea@gmail.com) orClement Martin (clemm.martin@gmail.com)by October 13th, 2013along with a brief biographical note, which should not exceed 50 words.The conference will take place at Paris Diderot University (Paris, 13e arrondissement) on the 12th-13th December 2013.Our two keynote speakers will be:Lynda Nead&#160;(Birkbeck College)St&#233;phane Van Damme&#160;(Sciences Po Paris)This event is supported by the Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Cultures Anglophones (Universit&#233; Paris Diderot).Scientific committeeThe scientific committee examining the papers is composed of doctoral students from Paris Diderot University:Claire DelignyCl&#233;mence FolleaCl&#233;ment MartinRoisin Quinn-LautrefinEstelle MurailMarie Ruiz