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Date:
Wednesday 24th June 2009
Time:
12.30-3.30pm
Venue: L/T B (Room 1057) Shackleton Building (Building 44), University of Southampton
Speakers:
Dr Michael Crang, University
of Durham and Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London
Organisers:
Dr
Roberta Comunian, School of Geography, & Dr Paul Sweetman, School of Social
Sciences, University of
Southampton
Despite
growing interest in and use of visual methods across the social sciences and in
geography, such methods are not always utilised as fully or in such an informed
way as more ‘traditional’ methods of research. This seminar, sponsored by the
National Centre for Research Methods, is an opportunity to learn more about the
use and scope of visual methods in contemporary social science and their
potential for developing innovative research within the disciplines
concerned.
Attendance is free but spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email Roberta Comunian [log in to unmask] by the 20th of June if you wish to attend the seminar.
All academic staff and postgraduate students from the University of Southampton are welcome. Students and academics from other institutions should contact Roberta Comunian to see if spaces are available.
Dr
Michael Crang
is Reader in the Department
of Geography,
University of Durham.
His interest in visual methods began with on the one hand thinking of urban
heritage and photography in memorialisation. He has continued to work on both
the visual as topic, in terms of landscape and identity and more lately with
photography, aesthetics and waste. The two approaches recent collided in
work on the consumptions of Kefalonia as a touristed and filmic
landscape.
Professor
Les Back
is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths.
He is the author of The Art of Listening (Berg Publishers, 2007) and the
convenor of the 'Live Sociology programme' an ESRC funded project to train
researchers in the use of multimedia.