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I hope of interest to some on the list. Felicity Callard Begin forwarded message: > From: "Suzanne Scuffam" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:16:42 am Europe/London > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: CFP: Location, Memory and Visuality (UK) (no deadline noted; > 11/?/03-5/?/04) > > MIRIAD > Manchester Metropolitan University > Centre for the Study of Location, Memory and Visuality > Symposia 2003/4 : Call for Papers > > Beginning in Autumn 2003, the Centre for the Study of Location, Memory > and = > Visuality will be running a series of symposia, leading up to a two > day = > international conference at Tate Liverpool in Autumn 2004. The > symposia = > and conference will be based around the core work of the Centre - the = > interrelated themes of visual representation, place and cultural > memory. > > There will be four symposia, the first in November 2003 and then > January, = > March and May 2004. There will be three papers in each session and > plenty = > of time for discussion. > > Full details of the first event in November 2003 will be posted in > early = > September. The Centre is keen to receive abstracts from researchers > and = > practitioners, areas of interest could include a wide range of > subjects = > connected to the role of the visual within notions of place and > memory. If = > you are interested in giving a paper please send an abstract (@250 * > 300 = > words) to the address below. > > If you would like to submit an abstract, request further information > or be = > added to the mailing list, please contact : > Steven Gartside, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cavendish > = > North Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BG. > E : [log in to unmask] > > www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/location-memory > > Further Infomation: > MIRIAD > > Manchester Metropolitan University > > Centre for the Study of Location, Memory and Visuality > > > The Centre concentrates its work on the interrelated themes of visual > = > representation, place and cultural memory. The intention is to open > up = > this rich area and to focus upon how visual representations and > practices = > contribute to the formation and negotiation of cultural memories and = > places, and how the combination of place and memory is manifested in = > visual form. > > The Centre is interdisciplinary in its base, though as the product of > a = > coherent set of interests it is a structured interdisciplinarity. The = > three core themes are wide ranging in possible subject matter, and the > = > overlapping of boundaries, subjects and the necessary exploration of > the = > spaces in-between all occur from the primary motivation of developing > new = > ground. > > The Centre for Location, Memory and Visuality is currently developing > a = > number of publications, conference, symposia and exhibition projects. > The = > Centre encourages interaction between subject areas, academic/practice > = > projects and institutional collaboration. As a junction for > constructive = > exchange, analysis and creative production the Centre invites > participation= > from researchers and practitioners across the range of disciplines in > Art = > & Design and the Humanities. > > Jim Aulich (MMU), Simon Faulkner (MMU), > Steven Gartside (MMU & Tate Liverpool ), Divya Tolia Kelly > (Lancaster). > John Taylor (MMU) > www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/location-memory > > Suzanne Scuffam > MIRIAD Temp > 0161 247 6225 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > =============================================== > From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List > [log in to unmask] > Full Information at > http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ > or write Erika Lin: [log in to unmask] > =============================================== > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Felicity Callard Department of Geography Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS United Kingdom t: (44) (0)207 882 5416 f: (44) (0)208 981 6276 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~