Please see information below.
Call for papers:
Sites of Performance: Mapping/Performance/History
2-4 April, 2009
University of Nottingham, UK
Plenary Speakers:
Mike Pearson, Professor of Performance Studies, University of Aberwystwth
Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
Proposals are welcomed for an interdisciplinary conference on Sites of
Performance: Mapping/Performance/History. To mark the completion of the
AHRC funded project, ‘Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867’,
which has involved a collaboration between theatre history and geography,
this conference invites reflections on the multiple ways in which
considerations of space, landscape and mapping can inform and offer new
methodologies to theatre history and historiography. Moving beyond the idea
of mapping as metaphor in creating theatre histories, papers are sought which
emphasize spatial and temporal connections between different elements and
events, examine ideas of repetition and duration, and highlight the importance
of geographical, social and performative landscapes as interactive. We thus
aim to bring together academics from a range of disciplines who are interested
in the making/writing of theatre and performance histories and cultural
geographies, as well as the potential of historical GIS in analyzing spatial-
temporal patterns within a community, and to address the potentials and
problems in turning to maps rather than narratives in the making of histories.
Examples of potential areas for proposals might include:
Maps and performance
Landscapes of performance
Spatial histories of performance
Performance and site
Repetition and duration in histories of performance
Techniques for representing patterns in space and time
Capturing/representing histories/historical mapping at a local scale
The potential of digital cartography for cultural geographies/cultural histories
Proposals for both papers and research posters are welcomed. Extended
proposals of 1000 words should be addressed to the Conference organisers, Dr
Jo Robinson, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD,
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University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, [log in to unmask]
Deadline for abstracts is now 14th November 2008
Dr Robin Burgess
GRACE Administrator
Infrastructure and Geomatics
IESSG
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
Tel: 0115 8232337
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