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Some list members might be interested in the conference below. Apologies too for cross posting. Call for Papers Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement The Australian National University 3-4 February 2014 This two-day conference casts its net wide to examine the roles of sense and movement in contemporary cultural geographical and sociological thought. It builds on the success of the New Critical Theory Group's workshop Enculturating Forces in 2013, a joint venture of geographers based at UNSW Canberra and the University of Bristol, and sociologists at the Australian National University. Cultures of Sense, Cultures of Movement develops the synergies between geography, sociology and cognate disciplines, recently explored in the Institute of Australian Geographers Cultural Geography Study Group conference Bodies In Situ-Bodies Ex Situ in 2011 and numerous CGSG sponsored sessions at IAG conferences, together with affect themed sessions at The Australian Sociological Association conferences. From debates that show how the sense of a place can be most critically grasped through its myriad complex movements, to debates on how these movements are themselves are constituted through sense, relations of sense and movement have been at the heart of cultural geographical and sociological thought. Sustained interest in relations of sense and movement over the past two decades have sought to remedy the cognitive tendencies in geography, sociology, cultural studies and cognate disciplines by exploring how knowledge is generated through the immediacy of sensuous experiences of movement rather than distanced cogitation. In doing so, much research has sought to show how the human body is a locus of sense making, focusing on how we come to know and understand the world through the senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, sound, and their interrelationships. Yet questions of knowledge are only part of the story. Recent work in has sought to explore how it is through relations of sense and movement that human and non-human bodies, objects and places are created and transform. From the sensing and moving body at the heart of the 'affective turn', to the role that sense and movement play in the aesthetic appreciation of spaces, cultures and cultural activities, our lifeworlds are beset by relations of dynamism and adynamism, sense and nonsense that demand our critical attention. In the context of the pressing need to more sensitively understand the processes, durations, technologies and experiences of social transformation, we welcome contributions that speak to the broad themes of cultures of sense, cultures of movement. These could include, but are not limited to, work on the ideas of mobilities; corporeality; materiality; affect; emotion; vitalism; becoming; belonging. Specific themes might include: migration and place-making; bodies and resistance; art and therapeutics; urban and rural mobilities; the porosity of private and public space; affect and knowledge production; nostalgia and the exotic; memory, imagination, anticipation. This conference is jointly organized by the Australian National University School of Sociology, the Canberra New Critical Theory Group and the IAG Cultural Geography Study Group. This event is sponsored by the ANU School of Sociology and the Institute of Australian Geographers. Abstracts Please forward enquiries and abstracts (no longer than 250 words) to David Bissell ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Maria Hynes ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Scott Sharpe ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by COB Friday 20 December 2013. Please register your attendance by clicking the following link http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultures-of-sense-cultures-of-movement-tickets-9434439663.