Call for Papers: Researching Cultural Spaces: An interdisciplinary
post-graduate conference.
Visit our website at www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/cultspaces
A FREE one-day conference for post-graduate students, hosted by Queen
Mary and Royal Holloway, University of London and funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council.
Saturday 3rd June 2006 at the Royal Holloway premises at 11 Bedford
Square, Bloomsbury, London.
Guest speakers: Professor Tim Cresswell (Aberystwyth) and Dr. Jane
Rendell (The Bartlett, UCL).
This conference is based on the recognition that the central tenets and
questions of cultural geography - questions around place, space,
landscape and environment - now exceed disciplinary boundaries and are
being investigated in research across the arts, humanities and social
sciences. This is reflected in what we are terming “cultural spaces,” an
interdisciplinary nexus of common concerns resulting from differing
approaches, experiences and epistemologies.
We invite abstract submissions of 250 words from postgraduates across
disciplines who are researching the following themes by Friday April 7th
2006.
· Re-presenting landscape (Landscape and aesthetic practices; embodied
engagements with the natural environment; human movements within and
across landscape; “encountering” landscape through theory).
· Exploring im/materialities (Virtual, technological and unconscious
worlds; the ordering, collection and display of objects; the im/material
fashioning of spaces, places and bodies; changing, unwanted or
disorderly materialities).
· Mobilising identities (The negotiation of identity in relation to
nation states and empires; rooted and routed identities; activist or
resistant spaces of identity; identity transgressions of spatial and
conceptual boundaries).
· Placing performance (The use of space, cities and architecture in
artistic performance; travelling forms of performance; constructing
subjectivity, bodies and identity through art; imaginative geographies
of performance).
For more information, to register, or to submit an abstract, please
visit our website at www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/cultspaces or email us at
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