Posted on behalf of Catherine Brace (University of Exeter)
The Understanding Landscape Project
www.uec.ac.uk/conferences/understandinglandscape
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
This project consists of a series of events, including two symposia,
innovative writing workshops, and an international academic conference,
bringing together writers and scholars in disciplines across the arts and
humanities.
Symposium 1
Writing Landscape
An Inter-disciplinary Symposium for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities
Monday, 19 March 2007, Stewart House, University College London
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN; SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS
Keynote speakers: Dr. James Kneale (Geography, University College London),
Dr. Ella Westland (English, University of Exeter)
This first symposium is the launch event for the project. This symposium
will explore the relationship between landscape and creative writing, paying
particular attention to the process of writing and reading. The symposium
would appeal to scholars from a range of disciplines, including literary
studies, geography, cultural studies, history, gender studies, creative
writing and philosophy.
We seek to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and to reassess current
theoretical and methodological issues. How does landscape inform identity
and reshape textual practices, as literary constructions of landscape are
disseminated, received, and loop back into the writing process? How can
creative auto-ethnography be used as a tool for exploring the relationship
between landscape and identity?
The symposium will be followed by a series of writers; workshops in which
participants will be producing and reflecting on their own creative writing.
The participants in these writers; workshops will be invited to participate
in and discuss examples of their work at the second symposium.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN; LATE REGISTRATION FEES APPLY AFTER 16th FEBRUARY 2007.
The registration form can be downloaded from the project website:
www.uec.ac.uk/conferences/understandinglandscape
Symposium 2
Written Landscape
An Inter-disciplinary Symposium for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July 2007, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
This symposium follows on from the March 2007 event and the writers;
workshops. Taking a methodological turn, this symposium focuses on the
challenges of researching creative writing and the writers who produce it.
This innovative two-day symposium seeks to bring together scholars from a
range of disciplines with the workshop participants. On the first day,
writers and academics will have the opportunity to explore in depth the
processes and practices of creative writing about landscape and self using
the creative writing produced in the workshops. There will also be a
hands-on workshop in which we will explore the manuscripts, letters,
notebooks and artefacts of several prominent writers from the Southwest.
On the second day, a series of academic papers will explore the
methodological issues that surround researching landscape, creative writing,
and the self.
International Academic Conference
Text Landscape Identity
An Inter-disciplinary Conference for Scholars in the Arts and Humanities
September 13th-15th 2007, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Timothy Fulford, Nottingham Trent University, UK Professor Donna
Landry, University of Kent, UK Professor Kenneth Olwig, SLU, Sweden
For the call for papers for this conference, see our project website:
www.uec.ac.uk/conferences/understandinglandscape
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ANY OF THESE EVENTS, VISIT THE WEBSITE OR CONTACT
PROFESSOR CATHERINE BRACE ([log in to unmask]) OR DR ADELINE JOHNS-PUTRA
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