Deadline for papers submission - Monday 4th May 2009

The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics is pleased to announce the second annual interdisciplinary graduate student Writing Cities Workshop, co-hosted on alternate years with MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard Law School. This year's topic is 'How do views shape words, how do words shape cities?' The aim of the Writing Cities Workshop is to provide a forum for graduate students to present papers within a peer review process, which allows for developing different ways of writing about the city. The workshop will be structured around approximately 20 papers, and the discussion panel will include Professor Richard Sennett, Professor Gerald Frug and Doctor Fran Tonkiss. We welcome papers that explicitly focus on the city in response to the call outline, from students in the following research centres:

London School of Economics (PhD candidates)

MIT: School of Architecture and Planning, Science Technology and Society Department (PhD students, as well as Masters students who have taken a seminar with Professor Richard Sennett in the past)

Harvard: Harvard Graduate School of Design (PhD students), Harvard Law School (Graduate students)

A travel stipend including accommodation costs will be available to students travelling from outside of the UK. Abstracts of between 200-300 words, together with a brief biography of 100 words that includes your affiliation should be sent to: writing.cities@lse.ac.uk by Monday, 16th February 2009. Timetable Deadline for abstract submission - Monday 16th February 2009 Notification of acceptance - Friday 27th February 2009 Submission of final papers - Monday 4th May 2009 Pre-circulation of papers - Friday 8th May 2009 Conference - Monday 1st June - Wednesday 3rd