Call for Papers: V International Congress on Spatialities – “Spaces, Times and Social Nights”

In-person event in Spanish | Puebla, Mexico | 2–4 September 2025
The College of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), in collaboration with academic institutions from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, invites scholars, researchers, artists, urban practitioners, and the general public to submit paper proposals for the V International Congress on Spatialities, under the theme:
Spaces, Times and Social Nights
This edition proposes an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary exploration of the cultural, social, and symbolic dimensions of nighttime. Against the backdrop of dominant capitalist daytime logics, the event seeks to examine how darkness, anonymity, and play give shape to collective forms of nocturnal life. The congress encourages theoretical and methodological approaches that consider the night as a plural, historic, and situated phenomenon—marked by practices, imaginaries, conflicts, and sociabilities.
Main themes include:
- Night and nocturnality, time and space
- Imaginaries and perceptions of the night
- Nighttime subjects, places, and practices
- Private nocturnalities
- Relationships, affects, and nocturnal sociability
- Everyday life and nighttime inhabitation
- Nighttime economy, labor, and tourism
- Memory and urban intervention at night
- Gentrification and nocturnality
- Bodies, genders, and night
- Media representations of the night
- Public spaces and nighttime uses
- Nighttime soundscapes
Submission guidelines:
- Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should include: title, author(s), institutional affiliation, a short bio (maximum 150 words), email address, and the thematic area of the proposal.
- A maximum of three authors per proposal is allowed.
- Only one submission per author will be accepted.
Deadline for submissions: 16 June 2025
Send proposals to: espacialidades.antropologia@correo.buap.mx
Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2025
Presentation time: 15 minutes per paper
Registration fees:
- General presenters: $300 MXN
- Attendees with certificate: $400 MXN
- BUAP community members: $150 MXN
Venue: College of Social Anthropology, BUAP, Ciudad Universitaria, Puebla, Mexico
For more information and registration:
espacialidades.antropologia@correo.buap.mx
OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (June 5, 2025). Call for Papers: V International Congress on Spatialities – “Spaces, Times and Social Nights” International Night Studies Network. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/147qg
