Dear CGF - details of a conference on Field-Work in Geography follow.
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Field-Work in Geography
Cultures, Practices, Traditions
Royal Holloway, University of London
Wednesday 5 May 1999
Day conference sponsored by the History & Philosophy of Geography Research
Group
and the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Fieldwork has long been regarded as integral to the production of
geographical knowledge, requiring a training in particular kinds of skills.
Yet there has been surprisingly little reflection on the historical
development and contemporary role of fieldwork within geography. The aim of
this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for discussion of
the practices and cultures of fieldwork from a range of perspectives,
reflecting recent work in both the history of science and the history of
geography.
The conference will include formal papers and video presentations, and will
be accompanied by an installation on the theme of Fieldwork by the artist
Perdita Phillips.
A full programme is provided below. Registration fees are £25 (waged) and
£10 (unwaged, including postgraduates), plus £7.50 for lunch if required.
Booking forms are available from: Dr Felix Driver, Fieldwork Conference,
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham,
Surrey, TW20 0EX, U.K. ([log in to unmask]).
Cultures of Fieldwork
Dorinda Outram (University of Rochester, New York)
Is fieldwork manly, important or reliable? Early nineteenth-century debates
Discussant: Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham)
Passages and Encounters
Luciana de Lima Martins (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Voyages and visions: ways of knowing the tropics
Kapil Raj (University of Lille)
Mapping paces, mapping places: the nineteenth-century Indo-British survey of
Tibet and Central Asia
Seeing and Knowing
Laura Cameron (Cambridge University)
Open minds/disturbed fields: A. G. Tansley and ecological field practice in
interwar England
Michael Bravo (University of Manchester)
The haptic and the panoramic: visions of Arctic fieldwork
This paper will be accompanied by a two video films: Ugjuq (produced by
Zaccharias Kunnuk, Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, 1988) and The Polar Star
(footage by Michael Bravo, in conjunction with the Swedish Polar
Secretariat, 1997)
Teaching and Learning
Teresa Ploszajska (Liverpool Hope University)
Fieldwork in the geography curriculum: an historical perspective
David Matless and Paul Merchant (University of Nottingham)
Geographical field cultures
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David Gilbert
Department of Geography,
Royal Holloway,
University of London,
Surrey TW20 0EX.
Tel (01784) 443653
Fax (01784) 472836
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