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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 [log in to unmask]
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