CFA: International Workshop: The Prison & the City. Spaces of Incarceration, Practices of Exclusion, and Public Communication

Deadline to Apply: May 15, 2019

Dates and Location

3-4 October 2019

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

The idea of this workshop is to look at prisons as a historical microcosm of urban societies and examine their contemporary re-usage.

We seek proposals that include, but are not limited to, the following themes and questions:

·         Prisons as Microcosms: What do we know about the inner social life of inmates?

·         The Prison as Incubator of Modernities: How did prison networks impact surrounding societies?

·         After the Prison: How cities dealt with the dark past of spaces of violence in their very centers?

The workshop aims to bring together scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to history, anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines, focusing on different periods and locations and exploring relationships between incarceration practices and urban settings.

Deadline: May 15, 2019

Participation is free of charge. The organizers will cover travel to and accommodation in Lviv. 

The workshop language will be English.

Details: http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferences/conferences/3021-19-10-04-prison-and-city/