> Emotional Geographies
>
> An interdisciplinary conference on the place of emotions in everyday
> life, hosted by The Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University,
> 23rd-
> 25th September 2002.
>
> Advisory Committee: Kay Anderson, Joyce Davidson, Rosaleen Duffy, Mary
> Evans, Anthony Gatrell, Christine Milligan, Mick Smith, Susan Smith.
>
> Speakers / Sessions include:
> Sara Ahmed - 'Communities that Feel: Intensities, Difference and
> Attachment'
> Liz Bondi - 'Counselling, Psychotherapy and Geographies of Care'
> Erica Burman - 'Emotions in the Classroom'
> Ian Craib - 'Headaches, Heartaches and Pains in the Arse'
> Mike Hepworth - 'Ageing and the Emotions'
> Val Plumwood - 'Sympathy and Solidarity with Nature'
> Gillian Rose - 'Everybody's cuddled up and it's just really nice':
> talking to mums about their family photos'
> Carol Thomas - 'Disability and the Emotions'
> John Urry - 'The Place of Emotions within Places'
> Gill Valentine - 'I just felt different though for a long time I didn't
> understand why': Emotional geographies of coming out as lesbian or gay'
>
> Call For Papers
> Contributions to the conference will consist of 20 minute papers (15
> for presentation, 5 for discussion). Potential contributors should submit
> abstracts of up to 300 words, highlighting 3 key words, to the conference
> organiser by 31st January 2002. All proposals will be reviewed by members of
> the advisory committee, and notification of the outcome will be given by 31st
> March 2002. A full conference outline can be found on the linked website
> -http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ihr/joyce.conference - which will be regularly
> updated with information on booking, accommodation and programme details. It
> is
> intended that a selection of papers from Emotional Geographies will form the
> basis of an edited collection to be published in 2003.
>
> Potential Themes
> This list of themes and topics for discussion is intended to be
> suggestive rather than exhaustive, and contributions are invited on any area
> of
> relevance to Emotional Geographies.
>
> * The gender(ing) of emotions
> * Consuming emotions: The role of foods and other 'goods' in everyday
> life
> * Ethnicity and emotions, cultural contrasts
> * Therapeutic Landscapes
> * Desire, sexuality and relationships
> * The medicalization of emotions
> * Emotional politics and the politics of emotion
> * Emotions in counselling and psychoanalysis
> * Creative passions: Emotion, aesthetics and the Arts
> * Memory, emotion and the life-course
> * Emotional attachment to the non-human world: Environmental protection
> and direct action
> * Institutionalised emotions: The academy and beyond
> * Class, poverty and emotional 'well-being'
> * Embodiment and emotions
> * Domestic bliss? Emotional geographies of 'home'
> * Disgust and the maintenance of boundaries
> * Geographies of fear and hate
> * Civilizing emotions
> * Senses, emotions and metaphors
> * Panic and postmodernity
> * Irrationality and emotional selves
> * The genealogy of emotions
> * Urban stress, rural tranquillity?
> * Agony and ecstasy: Drug and alcohol use for mood alteration
>
> Abstracts should be sent to:
>
> Joyce Davidson
> The Institute for Health Research
> Alexandra Square
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster LA1 4YT
> United Kingdom
> Tel: (00 44) 01524 592238
> Fax: (00 44) 01524 592401
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ihr/joyce.conference
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sheryl Coultas
> Secretary
> Institute for Health Research
> Lancaster University
> Alexandra Square
> Lancaster
> LA1 4YT
>
> Tel: 01524 592127
> Fax: 01524 592401
>
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