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Apologies for cross posting: WGSG and SSQWG Reading Weekend Geographies of Fear/ Geographies of Hope in the Academy The Nightingale Centre 30th March – 1st April 2007 Geographies of fear have permeated many realms of geographic research (Valentine 1989, Koskela 1997, 1999, Pain 2000, 2001) and in recent years have been turned on the geographical academy in considering the geographies of power and exclusion that people who work within academic Geography negotiate to varying degrees and at different stages of their academic careers (Valentine 1998, Kobayashi 2001, Peake and Kobayashi 2002, Mahtani 2006). Loosely related to emotional geographies, and particularly inspired by Liz Bondi’s open and honest reflection of her emotions around her PhD research (Bondi 2005) and Bronwyn Davies et al’s (2005) piece discussing embodiment in academic work, the Women and Geography Study Group and the Space, Sexuality and Queer Working Group are running a reading weekend to examine more closely the way emotions are negotiated within the variously experienced terrains of academic geography. It is hoped that this weekend will allow greater consideration of broader discussions currently taking place concerning the neoliberalisation of academia, the anxieties and fears experienced throughout the working life of academic geographers and that from collaborations and creative discussions further projects will develop. Key texts: Bondi, Liz (2005) The place of emotions in research: from partitioning emotion and research to the emotional dynamics of research relations, in Joyce Davidson, Liz Bondi and Mick Smith (Eds.) Emotional Geographies (Ashgate: Hampshire). Davies, Bronwyn; Browne, Jenny; Gannon, Susanne; Honan, Eileen and Somerville, Margaret (2005) Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places, Gender, Work and Organisation 12(4): 343-362. Mahtani M (2006) Challenging the Ivory Tower: Proposing anti-racist geographies within the academy. Gender, Place, Culture 13(1): 21 – 25. Location The reading weekend will take place in the village of Great Hucklow in the Peak District at The Nightingale Centre (http://www.great-hucklow.org.uk/index.asp). The nearest train station is in Hope (Derbyshire), about four miles from the village. Cost The Reading weekend will cost £89 (plus £15 supplement for en-suit room allocated on a first come first served basis) this covers full board accommodation for two nights. For postgraduate students: The WGSG and SSQWG have been awarded money from the RGS to help towards supporting postgraduate attendance to this weekend. Once it is established how many postgraduate student are attending this money will be divided accordingly. Therefore it is asked that postgraduates pay the full amount to be refunded an amount at or just after the meeting. Please download booking forms from the WGSG website at http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/~kstraus/wgsg/ For more information please contact Ruth Healey at [log in to unmask] To receive details of the full reading list for the weekend or to suggest additional reading please contact Jo Norcup [log in to unmask]