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> *apologies for cross-posting*
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> The University of Bristol's Research Group theme
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> performativity  | place | space
>
> is hosting a day of discussion around
>
> MOVEMENT, MAPPING AND MOBILITY
>
> 20th May 2006
> 9.30-6.15 followed by drinks reception
> (9.00am-9.30am registration)
> LR1/LT1   3 Woodland Road, University of Bristol
>
> Please register by May 10th by emailing [log in to unmask]  
> Fee for
> non-Bristol participants is £10, payable on arrival.
>
> [Please not that a fee will be charged for non-attendance if we are  
> not
> notified of cancellation]
>
> Numbers are limited so please book soon to ensure a place.
>
> KEYNOTE ADDRESS
> Nigel Thrift (Oxford)
> Turbulent Passions: Understanding Spaces of Political Feeling
>
> SPEAKERS
> Ruth Levitas  (Bristol)  'Archive of the Feet: Utopia, Social  
> Memory and
> Place'
>
> Christina Ljungberg (Zurich)  'Urban Movement as Performative  
> Utterance'
>
> John Adams (Bristol) 'Fieldwork: An Audio-Visual Exploration of  
> Boundaries
> and Spatial Practices on Broadfield Down, North Somerset'
>
> Liam Harte (Manchester)  'Reading the Performative in Irish Migrant
> Autobiography'
>
> Matthew Brown (Bristol)  'Travel and Adventure in Columbia'
>
> Baz Kershaw (Bristol) 'Becoming in Between: Zoological Performance  
> for the
> Ecological Era'
>
> Panel  'Thinking space in place: Site-based event at Birdcage Walk'
>
> Groups of 3 20-minute papers are followed by 45-minute discussion  
> sessions
> to encourage all participants to engage with cross-disciplinary  
> debates.
>
> Speakers come from across(and beyond) the Arts and participants are  
> welcome
> from any
> discipline or area that engages with the themes of movement,  
> mapping and
> mobility.
>
> The performativity | place | space theme is led by Martin White  
> (Drama:
> Theatre, Film, Television) and convened by Jo Carruthers (English &
> Theology and Religious Studies) and Angela Piccini (Drama: Theatre,  
> Film,
> Television).
>
> The symposium is supported by the Bristol Institute for Research in  
> the
> Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA)
>
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> Samantha Barlow
> BIRTHA Administrator
> Faculty of Arts
> University of Bristol
> Graduate Centre
> 7 Woodland Road
> Bristol BS8 1TB
>
> Tel: 0117 928 8892
> Fax: 0117 331 7469
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/
>
> For up and coming events in the Faculty of Arts don't forget to check
> https://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/events/
>