Dear all:
There are still a few places left at the following conference. PLease
ignore the deadline and get in touch with Pyrs if you want to come.
Symposium:
TECHNOLOGY AND THE SPACES OF MODERNITY
Gregynog, near Newtown, mid Wales
October 9th - 11th
FRIDAY 9th October
3.30 onwards Arrival and registration
4.00 Tea
4.30 Welcome and opening remarks
Technologies in history
4.45 - 5.30 Ulf Strohmayer (Lampeter)
The invention of seeing: technology or ideology?
5.30 - 6.15 Simon Naylor (Oxford)
Imperialism, science and hygiene: the ambivalent technologies of Britain's
imperial food networks in the early twentieth century
7.00 - 8.00 Dinner
8.00 - 9.00 KEYNOTE 1: Paul Rabinow (Berkeley)
Epochs, Presents, Events
SATURDAY 10th October
Communication technologies
9.30 - 10.15 Nick Bingham, Gill Valentine (both Sheffield) & Sarah Holloway
(Loughborough)
Integrating the Internet: the practice of technology in everyday life
10.15 - 11.00 Rhys Evans & Scott White (Bristol)
Escaping regulation: hate business, the internet and the limits of control by
nation states
11.00 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 KEYNOTE 2: Christoph Asendorf (Viadrina University)
Parabolic curves and the iconography of modernity
1.00 Lunch
Applied Technologies
2.00 - 2.40 Jeremy Stein (Birmingham) & Christine MacLeod (Bristol)
Making waves: the Royal Navy and technological innovation, 1815-1832
2.40 - 3.20 David Matless (Nottingham)
Vehicles of modern life: landscapes of mobility in early 20th century England
3.20 - 4.00 Matthew Gandy (UCL)
Technological modernism and the urban parkway in New York City
4.00 Tea
Theorising the Technical
4.30 - 5.15 Maria Kaika (Oxford)
Commodity fetishism and urban technological myths
5.15 - 6.00 Steve Hinchcliffe (Open University)
Performance and play in the 'material world'
7.00 Dinner
8.0 KEYNOTE 3: Andrew Leyshon & Nigel Thrift (Bristol)
Lists come alive
SUNDAY 11th October
Time, Space and Technologies of the Present
9.30 - 10.15 Vicki Belt (Newcastle)
New communications technologies, modernity and the ideal of community
10.15 - 11.00 Eric Laurier (Glasgow)
Nokia, or the distrust of technology
11.00 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 KEYNOTE 4: Leo Marx (MIT)
The technologised landscape, pastoralism, and the doctrinal schism
within environmentalism
12.30 Concluding Remarks
1.00 Lunch and depart
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COST
stlg125.00 for staff, stlg90.00 for Postgraduates. This includes
accommodation and
all meals. This figure includes only a nominal fee. (We greatly regret
that these
figures are higher than those initially publicised, but prices at Gregynog have
increased substantially since then and we have been obliged to pass on the
increase.)
Please note that space is limited, so early booking is recommended.
ACCOMMODATION
Gregynog is the University of Wales's educational and conference centre.
It is a
large country house set in landscaped grounds and an estate of about 750 acres
some 5 miles from the nearest town (Y Drenewydd/Newtown). The house was
given to the University in 1960 by the Davies sisters, well-known as art
collectors and patrons. The bulk of their collection is now in National Museum
of Wales, but the house retains some fine paintings and sculptures, as well as
much antique furniture.
Depending on numbers, it *may* be necessary for some delegates to share the
large
(and very characterful!) twin rooms in the main house. Please indicate on the
booking form if you are willing to do this. Apart from a few rooms in a newer
annexe all rooms have sinks but share bathroom facilities.
TRANSPORT
Details of how to get to Gregynog will be sent with confirmation of booking.
Transport will be provided to and from the railway station at Newtown.
INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS
Please contact Dr Pyrs Gruffudd, Department of Geography, University of
Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP; [log in to unmask] ;
Tel: 01792 295146; Fax 01792 295955
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Dr Pyrs Gruffudd
Yr Adran Ddaearyddiaeth, Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe
Parc Singleton, Abertawe SA2 8PP, Cymru
Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales
Ffon/Tel 01792 295146
Ffacs/Fax 01792 295955
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Tim Cresswell
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