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Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, 30 August - 1 September 2006 "Landscape, mobility and practice" A series of sessions organised by Peter Merriman and George Revill on behalf of the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Call for papers: In this session we aim to bring together geographers and academics from related disciplines who are concerned with human movement in the landscape. In the past few years there has been a resurgence of work on mobility in disciplines such as sociology and geography, while over the past decade geographers, anthropologists and others have been increasingly drawing upon non-representational theories and phenomenological writings in an attempt to cultivate more performative and practice-oriented accounts of the way people encounter, move through and inhabit landscapes. This session aims to juxtapose these more recent conceptual engagements with the dynamism of landscape with studies of the long and varied historical geographies of attempts by writers, artists, travel writers, landscape practitioners and others who, along with academics, have developed and expressed sensibilities to movement in the landscape, whether by providing critical commentaries on the experiences of travel, or developing artistic techniques for representing the dynamism of movement. This session will provide a forum for papers which explore a range of sensibilities to movement, embodied movements and mobile practices in the landscape, bringing together researchers who use a diverse array of methodologies and theories from across geography and related disciplines. We welcome papers on a diverse array of themes. These might include, but are not limited to, papers which engage with: . Embodied human movements in and through the landscape, from railway travel and walking, to rock climbing or parachuting. . Aesthetic styles or techniques for representing or expressing the dynamism of landscape. . Historical and cultural geographies of travel and transportation. . Technologies of visualising and sensing, from perspective drawing and cinema to CAD. . Practices of landscape design, gardening or engineering the landscape. . Different sensibilities to stillness, materiality and the knowable, and their relation to sensibilities to movement, flow and the sublime. . Theoretical engagements with the dynamism of landscape, using approaches from phenomenology and Marxist-humanism, to performance and non-representational theories. Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to both of the convenors by Friday 13th January 2006. Convenors: Dr Peter Merriman, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, e-mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Dr George Revill, Open University, UK, e-mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Details of the 2006 RGS-IBG Annual Conference are available at: <http://www.rgs.org/AC2006> http://www.rgs.org/AC2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Peter Merriman Lecturer Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DB United Kingdom Telephone (Direct): +44 (0) 1970 622574 Telephone (Secretary): +44 (0) 1970 622606 Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622659 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------