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kye
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Subject: Re: ESRC seminar: engaging geography
Hi Kye,
I'm planning to attend the seminar - can you send me the application form?
Thanks!
Muki
Kye Askins wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting
Apologies to those not
in/near/able to get to the UK
And sorry for the
relatively short notice …
‘Engaging Geography’ is a seminar
series (funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council) that
aims to explore and respond to key challenges facing geography in 2008 and
beyond: the ‘state’
of the discipline, its disciplinary identity and public face; a lack of
interaction between academic, school, and other geographers; the perceived
inability to engage with and influence the world and public(s) ‘out there’ (see Castree et al, 2007); and the increasing
calls for academics to play more prominent public roles, at a time of
developing growth in ‘public’ variants of many social science disciplines (see Attwood, 2007).
Our first seminar will be
held on Friday and Saturday January 23rd and 24th, 2009
at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (see www.starandshadow.org.uk ):
‘How did that
happen?’ The creation of time and space for public geographies
This introductory event
will be held over a 24-hour period, with the aim of identifying common themes
and issues about ‘new public geography’ through panel discussion and open floor
debate, presentations and interventions of varying types focused on exploring
‘how did that happen?’
We wish to encourage anyone
with an interest in ‘engaging geography’ to participate – academics,
researchers, students, practitioners, and, of course, members of ‘the public’.
We hope to facilitate the inclusion of as wide a constituency of ‘geographers’
as possible, by creating time and space for discussion around stories of
engagements, the initiation of enduring relationships and research, issues of
communication/translation, engaging geographical work beyond academic
publication, successes and failures, and perceptions of those on ‘the receiving
end’ of geographical engagements, with a particular focus on exploring how
publics value the time and expertise of geographers.
PLEASE FORWARD TO
ANYONE YOU THINK MAY BE INTERESTED…
The seminar will include:
Friday 23 Jan
·
Arrivals, lunch, informal
conversations …
·
‘How did that happen?’: panel discussants and open floor
debate
o
Susan Buckingham (Middlesex
University)
o
Ian Cook (Exeter University)
o
Rachel Pain (Durham
University)
o
Tom Wakeford (Director,
Beacons of Public Engagement)
·
‘Conversations I’: small group debate and feedback,
drawing on people’s wider experiences and thoughts on public geography*
*Participants
are encouraged to do some ‘homework’ for the seminar, asking students,
colleagues, research contacts, family and/or friends relevant questions around
‘what is public geography?’ – and to bring their ‘findings’ with them
·
Evening meal … in
honour of Dr. Duncan Fuller,
who was the driving force behind this seminar series before his unexpected
death early in October
Saturday 24 Jan
·
Film screening: collaborations between
geographers/academics and ‘publics’
o
Matthew Gandy (UCL)/PUKAR:
water issues in Mumbai
o
Neil Percival (Northumbria
Uni): community film making - experiences of racism in the north east of
England
·
‘public geographies in
action’ -
presentations of (local) case studies with Q&A
o
Neil Denton (Newcastle City
Council): ‘Perceptions of safety at the neighbourhood level’
o
New Line Graffiti Promotions
o
Participatory Evaluation and
Appraisal in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (PEANuT)
o
John Woodward (Northumbria
Uni) Antarctic research / schools education work
·
‘Conversations II’ – round up of emerging themes,
‘where do we take this’, discussion around dissemination and outputs etc
·
public-orientated intervention
in Newcastle city centre, around the issue of ID cards…
All participants are
encouraged to bring posters/leaflets/info about specific projects/research they
feel is relevant to debate: space will be made available to present any such
material.
We hope to also show the
photographic exhibition that resulted from the ‘Rescue Geographies’ project,
recently installed at MADE gallery in Birmingham, throughout the event: see
http://www.rescuegeography.org.uk/default.htm
The seminar is FREE TO
ATTEND, and being run midday Friday to Saturday afternoon in order to enable
those outside academia with work commitments Mon-Fri to attend for at least
part of the conference – please indicate on the application form (available
from [log in to unmask] or phone 0191 227 3743) which days
you intend to participate.
Later seminars in this
series will include:
Geographers, artists and
their publics.
Activist Geographies:
developing collaborating research priorities with social movements.
Geographies and policy.
Border crossings –
geographies in schools.
Communicating public
geographies…
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Dr. Muki Haklay: Senior Lecturer in GIS |
Department of Civil, Environmental &
Geomatic Engineering |
T: +44 20 7679 2745 |
Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres - www.sstc.ucl.ac.uk |