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Call for Papers:
Researching Cultural Spaces: An interdisciplinary post-graduate conference.
A FREE one day conference hosted by Queen Mary and Royal Holloway University of London and
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. With guest speakers Professor Tim Cresswell
(Geography, Aberystwyth) and Dr. Jane Rendell (The Bartlett, UCL).
Held on Saturday 3rd June 2006 at the Royal Holloway premises at 11 Bedford Square,
Bloomsbury, London.
This conference is based in 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 here terming “cultural spaces,” an interdisciplinary nexus of
common concerns resulting from differing approaches, experiences and epistemologies.
The aim of this one day event is to provide an informal environment where postgraduates from a
range of disciplines can present their research and exchange their ideas and methodological
approaches regarding the study of these cultural geographies and their meanings.
Potential themes include:
• 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).
We invite abstract submissions from postgraduates researching these themes across disciplines
and encourage participation from students at all stages of postgraduate work. Papers should be
15 minutes long. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent for consideration as part of
the registration process. Abstracts should be received no later than Friday April 7th 2006 with
acceptance decided by Friday April 14th 2006.
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 [log in to unmask]
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