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Dear All NATURE AND SUPER-NATURE: Geographies of the Natural, Post-Natural and Super-Natural A conference organised by the Nature-Society Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Exeter 20th-21st September, 2007. Please find below programme details for this hopefully not-too-carboniferous event!! Attendance is free - to register please contact Prof Henry Buller ([log in to unmask]) - full postal details at bottom. All welcome! best wishes john Programme Thursday 20th September Opening sessions 11.00-11.30 John Dupre : Philiosophy of Nature in the Genomic Age 11.30-12.00 Steve Hinchliffe: Spaces of Nature Natures and Post Natures 12.30-13.00 Nick Bingham: Can we live with coexistence? GM, STS, Europe and the spaces inbetween 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-14.30 Lewis Holloway and Carol Morris : Agricultural biopower and Domestic livestock: boosting bodies through genetic knowledgepractices. 14.30-15.00 Catherine Johnston: Dwelling, Dogs and the Dope-on-a-rope 15.00-15.30 Jamie Lorimer: Hunting the 'king of beasts': Elephant sport in mid-19th century Ceylon as a mode of engaging with nature 15.30-16.00 Amanda Claremont: Close encounters of the natural kind: the ordinary natures of the domestic garden 16.00-16.30 Tea Super-Natures 16.30-17.0 Paul Sharman: God is Dead - Long Live the Green King! 17.30-18.0 Liz Roberts: Photographing the Invisible: Images, Spirits and Imponderables in the mid to late Nineteenth Century 18.00-18.30 Mick Mangan: Dionysos in the Barbagia: men, monsters and carnival games. Bodies, Nature and Technology 18.30-19.0 Tim Brown and Morag Bell: "[A] clothed man lives in a tropical environment as far as his body is concerned" (Young, 1920): humannature interaction and the scientific search for thermal comfort. 19.00-19.45 Reception 20.30 Dinner / Pub ... Programme Friday 21st September Bodies, Nature and Technology (continued) 09.00-9.30 Ruth Holliday 'Fake Beauty: Women, man and aesthetic surgery' 9.30-10.0 Sebastien Abrahamsson: A fleshy experiment: approaching and performing bodily surfaces, limits and boundaries 10.00-10.30 Coffee 10.30-11.00 Becky Morris: Bloody Geographies: Series 1 11.00-11.30 Beth Greenhough and Emma Roe: Frankenstein's descendents? Conceptualising the post-natural identity of experimental subjects 11.30-12.0 Gail Davies: Locating species identity: Towards a biogeography of transgenic life 12.00-12.30 Ian Cook: Citizenship, kinship, thingship: hydrocortisone relatedness 12.30 Close Contact: Henry Buller Department of Geography, University of Exeter Amory Building, Rennes Drive Exeter EX4 4RJ Tel: 01392 263846 Email: [log in to unmask]