The University of Bristol's Research Group theme
performativity | place | space
is hosting a day of discussion around
MOVEMENT, MAPPING AND MOBILITY
20th May 2006
9.30-6.15 followed by drinks reception
(9.00am-9.30am registration)
LR1/LT1 3 Woodland Road, University of Bristol
Please register by May 10th by emailing
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for
non-Bristol participants is £10, payable on arrival.
[Please not that a fee will be charged for
non-attendance if we are not
notified of cancellation]
Numbers are limited so please book soon to ensure a
place.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nigel Thrift (Oxford)
Turbulent Passions: Understanding Spaces of Political
Feeling
SPEAKERS
Ruth Levitas (Bristol) 'Archive of the Feet: Utopia,
Social Memory
and
Place'
Christina Ljungberg (Zurich) 'Urban Movement as
Performative
Utterance'
John Adams (Bristol) 'Fieldwork: An Audio-Visual
Exploration of
Boundaries
and Spatial Practices on Broadfield Down, North
Somerset'
Liam Harte (Manchester) 'Reading the Performative in
Irish Migrant
Autobiography'
Matthew Brown (Bristol) 'Travel and Adventure in
Columbia'
Baz Kershaw (Bristol) 'Becoming in Between: Zoological
Performance for
the
Ecological Era'
Panel 'Thinking space in place: Site-based event at
Birdcage Walk'
Groups of 3 20-minute papers are followed by 45-minute
discussion
sessions
to encourage all participants to engage with
cross-disciplinary
debates.
Speakers come from across(and beyond) the Arts and
participants are
welcome
from any
discipline or area that engages with the themes of
movement, mapping
and
mobility.
The performativity | place | space theme is led by
Martin White (Drama:
Theatre, Film, Television) and convened by Jo
Carruthers (English &
Theology and Religious Studies) and Angela Piccini
(Drama: Theatre,
Film,
Television).
The symposium is supported by the Bristol Institute
for Research in the
Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA)
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Samantha Barlow
BIRTHA Administrator
Faculty of Arts
University of Bristol
Graduate Centre
7 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
Tel: 0117 928 8892
Fax: 0117 331 7469
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http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/
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