Call for papers 32 Academia XXII - COEXISTENCE: Archaeological and Historical Sites in Urban Contexts

Posted on 2025-03-18

 

 Call for papers 32

Deadline:

August 31, 2025

 

 ACADEMIA XXII invites submission of unpublished, original academic papers—research articles and technical reports—for Issue No. 32 (December, 2025), on the following topic:

COEXISTENCE: Archaeological and Historical Sites in Urban Contexts

The permanence of archaeological and historical sites in contemporary urban contexts is currently a critical aspect that reveals the importance of the relationship between archaeology, as a social scien­tific discipline, and urban or architectural development, as part of the current concept of “progress”, where public utility, or the common good, may become a source of confrontation, debate, and even of open antagonism. While pitting urban growth and architectural development against archaeological/ historical sites, this temporal dichotomy might provoke fraught, conflicting interests, each component considered individually and collectively may complement each other in significant ways as well. When considering coexistence and the archaeological dimension to urban spaces, city planners and develo­pers must make more informed choices about how to integrate diachronic urban constituents, particu­larly when the past provides artistic, cultural, or historical threads in the fabric of contemporary urban environments. Successful integration honors, preserves, and cherishes a rich heritage that highlights our roots’ legacy.

Academia XXII strives to address this intimate relationship between archaeology, architecture, and urba­nism and related themes beyond physical contemplation, construction, and development, to embrace current urban lives’ social and cultural antecedents. Multiple temporal and architectural city compo­nents provide platforms for community participation, education, and heritage resources tourism. Un­derstanding and incorporating earlier contexts within urban environments not only enhances historic preservation, but also provides an opportunity to foster a sense of ownership, identity, and connection among contemporary urban dwellers.

 

Some thematic options include:

  • Change and permanence in areas with archaeological and historical monuments
  • Sites, landmarks and historical urban nodes in contemporary settlements
  • Extinct cities perpetuity in contemporary urban contexts
  • Historical and archaeological sites as chaotic tourist destinations
  • Historic centers integrity and contemporary urban coexistence
  • Heritage resources preservation, common good and public utility: a frank debate
  • The major issues of heritage preservation in overcrowded destinations

 

Please send submissions to:

https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/aca/about/submissions

Contact:

academiaxxii@unam.mx

Website:

https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/aca