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International ConferenceNovember 29-30, 2019University of Palermo, Department of Architecture, viale delle ScienzeRoom 1.3 and 1.4, Main BuildingDeadline for proposals: November 6, 2019ArgumentThe conference aims to explore the relationships established between cinema and urban areas. We want to stress the connections woven between cities and cinema, films, fiction and documentaries &#8211; important unconventional sources for the understanding of social and cultural contexts. We intend to focus on the modalities used in films to tell stories &#8211; through images and speech &#8211; concerning cities, territories, and places, residents&#8217; lives in relation to spaces, to buildings, to landscapes, as well as to its urban culture as a whole. The perspective we have chosen for this conference is interdisciplinary and cinema will be considered as a medium to be understood and interpreted in several, possibly comparative, ways. Actually, cinema, as a specific cultural artefact, expresses both individual and collective viewpoints mirroring cultures and hybridizations that can be explored by various disciplines and comparative perspectives. This complexity, possible reflection of the contemporary world, is perhaps more tangible in cinema than in other expressive forms, making it accessible to many people and at the same time a medium in which several genres and contents meet and can be analysed and compared. We are particularly interested in comparative perspectives and interdisciplinary viewpoints. As a result, the conference aims to engage researchers from different countries and various fields of study in order to explore the multiple ways through which cinema is able to contain and manifest crucial aspects of cities and urban spaces. Anthropologists, architects, urban planners, geographers, sociologists, film critics, semioticians, scholars of aesthetics, of images, of cultural studies, as well as film directors, documentary film makers and designers are invited to share their experiences and their ideas. We intend to collect the articles and publish them in a collective volume.The Committee welcomes papers on any-related topic. Suggested topics may include:Cultural and social exchanges and/or conflicts between cultures, people and placesCultural hybridizationsUrban spaces: the concrete buildingUrban spaces: the symbolic buildingUrban spaces: beautyUrban spaces: transformationUrban spaces: relationships between peopleLiving, moving, dwellingUrban economy and the real estate marketUrban ritualsVisual imaginariesCities and comicsFilm photography and urban spacesFood and citiesPolitics, cinema and citiesGhettoes and cities as &#8220;prisons&#8221;Urban distress and marginalization, inclusion and exclusionTransforming urban spacesCentres, suburbs, gentrificationCities and dreamsUrban biographies: telling the cityEveryday life and urban infrastructuresDomestic spaces and citiesIdentity and urban configurationsOld and new methodologies of analysisImaginary horizons and citiesPerception, interaction and urban spacesUrban Resilience/ResistanceSubmission GuidelinesProposals&#160; and information should be sent to:Flavia Schiavo (flaviaschiavo62@gmail.com)Stefano Montes (montes.stefano@tiscalinet.it)Deadline for proposals and biodata: Novembre 6, 2019Proposal abstract and title: max 250 wordsTime for speech: 20 minutesLanguages used in the conferences: Italian, English, French and SpanishParticipation is free, travelling, accommodation and meals are covered by participants.Scientific CoordinatorsFlavia SchiavoStefano MontesOrganizing committeeFlavia SchiavoStefano MontesLeonardo MercatantiFederico MontanariAlessandro PratoGaetano SabatoGiusi CoppolaMassimo BonuraAlessio ArenaAdministrative organisationDepartment of Architecture, Universit&#224; di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze 90128, Palermo