The next Space/Place/Culture seminar at MMU has been postponed until the 8th May. Other details as below.
Thursday 8th May, 5.15pm-7.00pm (approx end time)
Room 315, MMU Business School. NB use the North Atrium lifts/stairwell.
Simon Faulkner (Art History, MMU)
The Politics of Here and There: Visual Representations of Spatial Difference in Israel/Palestine
This talk considers some examples of both Israeli and Palestinian visual practices that have attempted to represent partitions of space established by the Israeli occupation. These practices respond to these partitions in different ways and from very different perspectives. Sometimes the images that result from these practices are made from the perspective of life in the so-called Tel Aviv ‘bubble’, separated off from the occupation, but conscious of its presence not far away. Others are made from the spatial heart of the occupation. The talk explores these differences in perspective, through the work of David Reeb, Avi Mograbi, Emily Jacir, and Yazan Alkhalili, and the ways that they are enmeshed with the sensible order of the occupation.
About the Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar Programme:
The ‘spatial turn’ has opened up dynamic synergies – and occasional tensions - between the work of cultural geographers and researchers working in a range of fields across the humanities. As Douglas Richardson explains, ‘ideas, terminology, and concepts such as space, place, scale, landscape, geography, and mapping’ now permeate interdisciplinary academic research as ‘conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and core metaphors’. Saliently, Richardson – Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers - also points out that such tropes have become increasingly prominent within public life as evidenced, in this country, by a collective preoccupation with edgelands, psychogeography, liminal spaces, cultural cartography and so on. Moreover, the proliferation of digital geographical technologies – including Sat Navs and Google Earth - has revolutionised the practice of everyday life. Researchers at MMU have recognised the shared emphasis on geographic themes as a focus for both internal cross-disciplinary collaboration and as a means to engage wider publics with academic research; the Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar Programme is a forum where such research can be discussed, and is open to anyone.
The Space/Place/Culture cluster at MMU hope to run more public events next academic year, we will publicise these through the usual lists and networks.
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Dr Gavin MacDonald | Senior Lecturer, New Media Theory | BA (Hons) Film & Media Studies | Manchester School of Art | Manchester Metropolitan University | Chatham Building | Cavendish St. | M15 6BR
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