Please see below details of two Historical Geography events taking place
in Edinburgh next week. Please do circulate information to anyone who
might be interested in attending.
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH GROUP (of the RGS-IBG) *
'PRACTISING HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY'
14TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER, 09.15-17.00
*INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Keynote lectures:
“Historical geographies of geographical practice” Professor Charles
Withers (University of Edinburgh)
“Subaltern space” Dr Daniel Clayton (University of St. Andrews)
Presentation:
“Work, wages and women: researching the capitalisation of employment in
agriculture” Ann-Therese Farmer (HGRG Undergraduate Dissertation prize
winner 2007)
Workshops:
“Reading resistances in the archive: agency, intention, interpretation”
Dr Carl Griffin (Queen’s University, Belfast)
“Archival research: investigative impulses and instincts” Dr Stephen
Legg (University of Nottingham)
Roundtable Q & A: "Postgraduate Voices"
The conference is free to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be served.
To register for the conference and for further information please
contact Heidi Scott (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth University) at [log in to unmask] or 01970 622647.
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*SPACES OF, AND FOR HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY *
*Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 6th November, 10.00am-5.00pm *
A day symposium of historical geography presentations for academic
staff, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students, supported by
the Art and Humanities Research Board
*Books and Textual Spaces*
Innes Keighren (University of Edinburgh): ‘Humboldt's disciples or a
capitalist vanguard? The written accounts of nineteenth-century British
travellers to South America’
Louise Henderson (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Print spaces
and the literature of travel: John Murray and the making of Missionary
Travels’
*Landscapes and Sensual Spaces*
Veronica Della Dora (University of Bristol): ‘Gazes from a frontier
tower: the intertwining biographies of a war heroine and a holy mountain’
Hayden Lorimer (University of Glasgow): ‘A life in nature’s surfaces and
beauty’s secrets’
*Museums as Spaces of Practice*
Merle Patchett (University of Glasgow): ‘Putting animals on display:
geographies of taxidermy practice’
Geoff Swinney (University of Edinburgh): ‘What do we know about what we
know? – the museum register as museum object’
Chris Philo (University of Glasgow): Discussant’s Remarks
The symposium is free to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be served.
To register please e-mail Merle Patchett at: [log in to unmask]
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