call for papers AFFECTIVE LANDSCAPES CONFERENCE MAY 25-26, 2012
DERBY, UNITED KINGDOM
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2012-05-25
Date Submitted: 2011-10-11
Announcement ID: 188804
Call for Papers:
Affective Landscapes
May 25th / 26th 2012,
University of Derby, UK
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
- Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas Austin, author of Ordinary
Affects (2007) and A Space on the Side of the Road (1996)
and
- Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, author of Ordinary Lives.
Studies in the Everyday (2011) and Everyday Life and Cultural Theory
(2002)
This conference seeks exciting disciplinary and transdisciplinary
proposals from scholars working in fields such as cultural studies,
literary studies, cultural politics/history, creative writing, film
and media studies, Area Studies, photography, fine art, interested in
examining the different ways in which human beings respond and relate
to, as well as debate and interact with landscape.
In 2009, the one-day symposium ‘Land and Identity’, held at the
University of Derby, brought together a diverse body of academics to
discuss themes and intersections across multiple areas of research
interest. This follow-up event, hosted by the Identity, Conflict and
Representation Research Centre at the University of Derby in
collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Literature at the
University of Portsmouth, aims to develop inter-disciplinary debates
around the idea of ‘Affective Landscapes’. The conference has been
inspired by the work of theorists whose work examines points of
intersection between ordinary life and extraordinary encounters and
exchanges with the world around us. It asks how do we ‘feel’, ‘sense’,
‘know’, ‘cherish’, ‘memorise’, ‘imagine’, ‘dream’, ‘desire’, or even
‘fear’ landscapes? How do its ‘intensities’ register, flow and
circulate? What forms do we use to articulate, debate and record these
affects?
The Conference will include a related film screening and panel
discussion to take place at the QUAD Arts Centre in Derby.
We are particularly interested in proposals examining the following:
- psychogeography
- critical regionalism
- cultural politics on identity and landscape
- national identity
- suburbia
- edgelands
- the rural / urban
- responses to landscape by creative practitioners (writers /
photographers / artists / filmmakers)
- phenomenology
- the body in landscape
- Ecocriticism
- landscapes of trauma and memory
- theories of affect and landscape
Please send proposals of not more than 250 words by 16 December 2011 to
Dr. Christine Berberich at [log in to unmask]
Further details about the conference, the venue, travel,
accommodation, registration etc can be found at the website:
http://www.derby.ac.uk/affectivelandscapes
pROPOSALS TO: Dr. Christine Berberich at [log in to unmask]
Further details about the conference, the venue, travel,
accommodation, registration etc can be found at the website:
http://www.derby.ac.uk/affectivelandscapes
Email: [log in to unmask]
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