Dear Colleagues,
For your consideration:
Centre for Studies in Literature
University of Portsmouth
*Thursday 29th May 2014*
*The Poetics of Space in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Culture.*
*Keynote Speaker: Professor Ben Highmore (Sussex)*
In *The Poetics of *Space (1958), Gaston Bachelard asserts that 'setting'
is more than 'scene' in works of art; that it is often the armature around
which the work revolves. At this conference we will examine what happens
within the cultural space and assess its relationship with place. We aim
to investigate the physical and conceptual boundaries of the artistic form
and determine where art and literature takes place. This conference seeks
postgraduate researchers who are exploring the significant and dynamic
relationships between the co-ordinates of space, place, movement and
thought in twentieth and twenty-first century culture. In addition to work
questioning aesthetic and fictional constructions of space in literature
and literature in space, we also welcome papers that discuss how visual
media challenge conventional uses of space and manipulate our conceptions
of inclusion and exclusion. This conference encourages papers that approach
the text from inside and outside challenging traditional disciplinary
boundaries.
We invite submissions of 250 word abstracts for original academic papers
of twenty minutes on the conference theme. We encourage participation from
graduate students of any discipline, including but not limited to
literature, film studies, visual culture, gender studies, and cultural
studies. Topics might address but are not limited to:
- Heterotopia and the Third Space
- National boundaries & the formulation of national identities
- Fantastic or otherworldly spaces
- Gendered spaces: domestic space and female interiority
- Designed spaces: architecture; the landscape of the city; maps and
cartography
- Imperialism, exploration, navigation, and colonization
- Transgressive spaces and Liminality
- Materiality of the text
- Sacred and religious spaces
- Historical conceptions of space
- Psychogeography
- The aesthetics /theory of space: the 'spatial turn' in literature and
cinema.
Please send submissions and a brief bio to *[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> *by 1st March 2014
Many thanks.
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Centre for Studies in Literature
University of Portsmouth
Park Building
King Henry I Street
PORTSMOUTH
PO1 2DZ
United Kingdom
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