The Global Urban Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce a call for papers on the theme of Urban Pilgrimage. Urban Pilgrimage will be published as a special issue of the UC Berkeley architecture journal Room One Thousand and will examine the historical and contemporary connection between cities and the itineraries of those who pass through them.
Trying to map out the diverse issues and imaginaries around the concept of urban pilgrimage, this project constructs an itinerary that re-assembles conversations among several preexisting intellectual clusters on the Berkeley campus. The final issue will be made available on a unique website, in print, as well as through eScholarship. Working around the theme of urban pilgrimage, we will also undertake a series of related working group-meetings, museum and archival tours, and experimental labs, which will contribute to the content of the issue.
The call for papers is available here.
More information on Urban Pilgrimage is available here.