Dear all:
The following is an announcement for the meeting on the theme of mobilities
in November. I thought cgf people might be interested.
Second Annual Colloquium of the
Centre for the Study of Spaces in Modernity
"Mobilities"
At Gregynog, Newtown, Powys
November 26th-28th 1999
This colloquium is an intervention into the contemporary fascination with
all things mobile. Recent years have been marked by two, often strangely
disconnected, interests. On the one hand variations of mobility (spaces of
flows, nomadology, travelling theory) have become central metaphors for
abstract forms of understanding in cultural geography, anthropology,
cultural studies, critical theory, philosophy and the humanities in
general. Metaphors of mobility are used to bring into question the
apparent fixities of older forms of understanding. In general this has
gone hand in hand with the move against foundationalism and towards
anti-essentialism. At the same time there has been a dramatic increase in
attention paid to mobile people ranging from travellers and explorers, to
tourists, to migrants to the homeless and exiled. A central aim of this
colloquium is to bring together people interested in one or both of these
fascinations from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts.
Talks will be addressed (but not limited) to the following questions:
How does mobility get meaning?
How is mobility mobilised in contexts of domination and resistance?
How is mobility marked by gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality?
What connects mobility as a metaphor and actual experiences of mobility?
Is it possible to develop a general account of mobility that connects the
tourist and the jetsetter to the refugee and the homeless?
Is mobility in modernity different from mobility in postmodernity?
Is the centrality of mobility to contemporary humanities and social
sciences new?
What are the relations between mobility and place?
Speakers include
Tim Cresswell (Geography, Aberystwyth)
The Production of Mobilities
Ginnette Verstraete (Faculty of Arts and Culture, Maastricht)
Technological Frontiers in an Age of Travel
Georges Van Den Abbeele (French Studies, California - Davis)
Lethal Mobilities
John Allen (Geography, Open University)
'Money, movement and meaning: going with the flow'
Marcus Doel (Geography, Loughborough)
PLUG MYSELF IN (D.O.E.L. featuring D.O.S.E. and Mark E. Smith)
THE SPOONFUL OF SUGAR MIXES (PART ONE OF A 2CD SET)
1. Plug myself in (7" Nero mix): spatial fetishism and motionless trips
2. Plug myself in (12" Caligula mix):'convicts are out.and security are in'
3. Plug myself in (12" 2 Pointblanc intensive care mix):'got to go.GOT TO GO'
4. Plug myself in (missing link symphonic instrumental):burrowing
kafka@becoming deleuze&guattari
5. Plug myself in (missing link dirty instrumental): 'I just can't seem to'
6. Plug myself in (DOA mix): 'nobody around. tofix them'
Don Mitchell (Geogrpahy, Syracuse)
Violence, Mobility, and the Contemporary California Landscape
Rob Imrie (Geography, Royal Holloway)
Immobility and the incomplete citizenship of disabled people
John May (Geography, Queen Mary)
The Vagabond Mind.
Catherine Nash (Geography, Royal Holloway)
Travelling to find roots: genealogy and diasporic identities
Sara Mills (Cultural Studies - Sheffield Hallem)
Gender, Space and Mobility
Caren Kaplan (Women's Studies, Berkeley)
Transporting the Subject: Cultures of Identity in an Era of Globalization
Siole Veijola (Helsinki)
Tourism as a violent narrative? Epistemological and Methodological Inquiries
Lynda Johnston (Geography, Edinburgh)
Marching Masculinities
Iain Chambers (Cultural Studies, Naples)
Migrations, modernities and the (im)possibility of maps
The Colloquium fee is 120 pounds (90 pounds for postgraduates)
This includes accommodation and full board.
Contact me for further information.
Dr Tim Cresswell
Insititute of Geography and Earth Sciences
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DB
Tel 01970 622782
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