*apologies for cross-posting*

The University of Bristol's Research Group theme

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
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http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/

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