Southern African City Studies Conference 2011

From 7 to 9 September 2011 the second conference on city studies in Southern Africa was held in Cape Town.

The Southern African City Studies Conference was again convened as a joint initiative between CUBES and the African Centre for Cities (ACC). The 2011 conference was held at the University of Cape Town and was a very successful event, with 70 papers presented by academics and urban practitioners and around 130 participants attending. The two plenary sessions focused on 'City Studies in the World and South Africa' and 'Continuities and Ruptures in Urban Studies'. A roundtable discussion revolved around 'City Studies Beyond the University'.

Wits PhD candidate Obvious Katsaura received the first Urban Forum journal prize for best postgraduate student paper presented, which examined community governance and spaces for political contestations and coalitions in urban South Africa.