Dear all,
It would be great to have some archaeologically flavoured contributions to the following…
Home-work: connections, transitions and the wider world
Centre for Studies of Home
One-day conference : Tuesday 24 June 2014
The Geffrye Museum of the Home
The Centre for Studies of Home is inviting papers for the Home-work conference, to be held at the Geffrye Museum in London on Tuesday 24th
June 2014. This conference seeks to examine the connections between home, work and the wider world from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing on temporality, spatiality and domestic practices in relation to paid
and unpaid work. Taking the material home as a starting point, the conference will not only explore the impact of work on the home, but will also consider the influences of the wider world on home and work. Spanning diverse homes and forms of work in the past
and present, the conference will address home-work in relation to the domestic interior and household relationships, the connections between home and non-domestic work, home-work relationships for migrants, and the migration of domestic workers, technologies
and practices.
The conference is convened as part of the ‘Home-work’ AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award programme based at the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership between Queen Mary University of London and the Geffrye
Museum of the Home. Inspired in part by the SSN Histories of Home symposium on work in and at home (2009) and the special issue of
Home Cultures on Home and Work in Britain (2011), these four cross-disciplinary PhD projects examine connections between home and work from the eighteenth century to the present through the following themes:
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Domestic space and domestic service
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Connections between domestic labour, the home and the wider world
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Relationships between home, work and migration
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Spaces and practices of home, work and family
We invite papers that address similar themes, and/or encourage critical reflection on the following questions:
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What are the relationships between home, work and the wider world?
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How is the home influenced by the wider world through work?
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How are spaces of home and work connected and/or disconnected?
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What work is involved in making home (physical, affective)?
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What is the significance of temporality in relation to home and work?
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What are the methodological challenges of researching home and work?
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How are the relationships between home and work represented in museums, historic houses and artistic practice?
Please submit proposals including title and abstract (200-300 words) by 18 April 2014 to Jacqueline Winston-Silk at
[log in to unmask]. The programme will be confirmed by early May.
Best wishes,
Alastair
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Dr Alastair Owens
Reader in Geography
Deputy Dean for Taught Programmes
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London
E1 4NS
United Kingdom
020 7882 2750
http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/staff/owensa.html