T9: social dimensions of streets: collective memory-ies, migrant communities, performances, and events

The recent acceleration of the world’s mobility has no doubt affected city streets. This is manifested in the increased rate of transactions, communication channels, trans-nationalism, and the unprecedented influx of refugees within ‘new’ contexts. The conference seeks to highlight their status quo and examine embedded stories reflecting realities, potentials and possibilities for conviviality, and addresses scholars in all disciplines with the question: how can the evolution of streets be traced in an era when their transition swings between regression and progression witnessed socially, economically, culturally, technologically and educationally? Read more at the conference website starting 1 September 2017