Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar #2. All welcome.
About the Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar Programme:
The ‘spatial turn’ has opened up dynamic synergies – and occasional tensions - between the work of cultural geographers and researchers working in a range of fields across the humanities. As Douglas Richardson explains, ‘ideas, terminology, and concepts such as space, place, scale, landscape, geography, and mapping’ now permeate interdisciplinary academic research as ‘conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and core metaphors’. Saliently, Richardson – Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers - also points out that such tropes have become increasingly prominent within public life as evidenced, in this country, by a collective preoccupation with edgelands, psychogeography, liminal spaces, cultural cartography and so on. Moreover, the proliferation of digital geographical technologies – including Sat Navs and Google Earth - has revolutionised the practice of everyday life. Researchers at MMU have recognised the shared emphasis on geographic themes as a focus for both internal cross-disciplinary collaboration and as a means to engage wider publics with academic research; the Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar Programme is a forum where such research can be discussed, and is open to anyone.
Next seminar:
Thursday 16th January - Simon Faulkner (Art History, MMU)
The politics of here and there: Visual representations of spatial difference in Israel/Palestine
For further enquiries:
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Dr Gavin MacDonald | Senior Lecturer, New Media Theory | BA (Hons) Film & Media Studies | Manchester School of Art | Manchester Metropolitan University | Chatham Building | Cavendish St. | M15 6BR
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