Dear
colleague/friend/scholar/administrator
This is an interdisciplinary conference about
space, and will be of interest to a broad range of scholars and
practitioners (see subject list below). Speakers include leading
academics as well a postgraduate students, professionals, tutors, and
transdisciplinary practitioners.
If appropriate, I would be grateful if you could
post the information below (in full or in part - e-mail me back for a shorter
version) on your website, or circulate it on your institution's graduate and
staff lists or general bulletin.
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`Connected Space'
Saturday and Sunday
14th--15th May 2005, McDonald Institute, Cambridge UK.
Connected Space brings together
related but often disengaged disciplines. Scholars and practitioners
Geography, Anthropology, Fashion, Architecture, Sociology, Art,
and Archaeology will address the problem of space in seven sessions
over two days. Notes on the conference theme, a poster, and a programme
including paper titles can be downloaded at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/whatsup/index.html.
Speakers include: Matthew Barac, Emma Beadsmoore, Victor Buchli,
Peter Carl, Duncan Garrow, Jay Gort, Vedia Izzet, Mark Knight, Raymond
Lucas, Pete Manfield, Trevor Marchand, Linda McDowell, Lesley
McFadyen, Tim O'Riley, Paula Orrell, PocketVisions, Debby Ray, Jane
Rendell, Chris Scarre, Debra Benita Shaw, Elizabeth Shove, Carolyn Steel,
and Ann Varley.
Other participants include Graeme Barker, Marcial
Echenique, Caroline Humphrey, and Sir Colin Renfrew.
To register, or to
obtain further information, please e-mail Matthew Barac ([log in to unmask]) or Lesley McFadyen ([log in to unmask]). Tickets are £30 (full
rate), £20 (student rate) for both days, or £22.50 (full rate), £15 (student
rate) for one day only.
This conference is sponsored by the MacDonald Institute of
Archaeological Research, the Department of Architecture, and the
Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. We are also
grateful for support from CRASSH, John Wiley & Sons, Oxbow Books,
Phaidon Press Ltd, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Machester University
Press, and Berg
Publishers.
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