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Call for participation
Mapping Dangerous Spaces
A one day interdisciplinary
symposium for postgraduate students and new researchers
British Library Conference
Centre
Tickets now available via British
Library Box Office
We warmly invite postgraduate
students and junior researchers to participate in a day of papers by their
peers which will discuss crime and danger in social representation and the
imagination.
These exploratory and lively sessions
will be supported by presentations by an interdisciplinary panel of experts. Peter
Barber of the British Library will introduce the day by showcasing some of
the historical maps in our collections which raise questions about contemporary
representations of criminal spaces. Dr. Kate O'Brien (
The themes of the day will
include:
·
Negotiating
stigmatisation and fear
·
Global
violence and security
·
Representing
the experiential
·
Creating/policing
urban parameters
·
Bounding
vulnerability
·
Mapping
un/healthiness and aid
·
Literary
maps of danger
·
Governing
the 'dangerous' space
·
Navigating
transgressions.
Tickets are available at
£10 per person from the British
Library Box Office. If possible please purchase your ticket online so that
we can subsequently contact you by email with further information about the
event. Ticket price includes lunch and networking drinks.
For any further details
please contact Laura Hanson ([log in to unmask]) or Dr. Sarah Evans ([log in to unmask])