Call for Papers

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An international conference organised by the CES research group on Urban Cultures, Sociabilities and Participation to critically and pragmatically explore the concept of ‘creative resilience’ and its application in academic research, civic society, and public policy. The conference aims to foreground the agency of cultural actors and practices, and the essential need for equitable and inclusive civic participation in collective transitions and transformations towards regenerative and resilient strategies and actions. It acknowledges the need to reexamine culture-nature relations in our lives, renew urban-rural cultural connections, and inform public dialogue on resilience, which guides contemporary public policies and interventions such as the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan (2023-2026). 

A call for sessions opened among the members of CULTURS sets out a framework for a series of discussions and research exchanges. Municipalities and other local and regional institutions will be invited to present their projects or contribute to roundtables and debates.

The call for papers is now open. We invite contributions from a wide array of disciplines, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations – and projects and practices – to enrich and extend the conference themes in their conceptual and pragmatic dimensions.

Languages: Portuguese and English

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We accept proposals for individual and collective presentations. Proposals should be submitted using the e-form available through this link.

Each proposal must include the following:

• Title
• Author(s) (up to 5)
• Email for the corresponding author
• Biographical note (max. 100 words) or link to CV(s) for the author(s)
• Organisational affiliation(s) of author(s)
• Country(ies) of organisation(s)
• Abstract of paper or project (300 words maximum)
• Session to present paper (select in the list)

PUBLICATIONS

Cescontextos - all papers accepted - 3.000 words
RCCS - special dossier organised by CULTURS, with 4 selected papers (10.000 words)
Other publications may be organised once CFP submissions are reviewed.

TIMELINE
1 July – Call for papers/presentations open
30 September  – Call for papers/presentations closes 
11 October – Results from CFP announced
11 October – Registration opens
4 November – Registration closes
13 November – Pre-conference masterclass “Where Cultural Mapping Meets Cultural and Social Planning: Exploring and Critiquing Selected Models of Community-University Collaboration”
14-15 November – Conference live in Coimbra!
16 November – Post-conference workshop “Making Sense of Community-Engaged Research Methods: Stories from the Field, For the Field”
14-15 November – Conference live in Coimbra!
15 February – Submit full paper CESCONTEXTO (all papers 3.000 words) / RCCS (4 selected papers - 10.000 words)

FORMAT
2 days in-person
Bring together research and public institutions in co-learning and dialogue 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Carlos Fortuna, Claudino Ferreira, Eliana Sousa Santos, Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Kátia António, Lorena Sancho Querol, Mehmooda Maqsood, Nancy Duxbury, Paula Sequeiros, Paulo Lemos, Rui Lobo, Sílvia Silva

PARTNERS

Projects
TRANS-Lighthouses
INSITU
Phoenix
Nets4Dem
CONVENTUS. New perspectives on the former Convent of São José in Lagoa (Algarve-Portugal)
Greenarts

Observatories
CREATOUR Observatory on Culture and Tourism for Local Development

Networks
NBS Portugal HUB

With the support of
Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra
Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra