Forwarded message from Hilary Geoghegan <[log in to unmask]>:
[Hilary writes that paper proposals from postgraduates in archaeology are
particularly welcome. DH]
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 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 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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