Places are still available for our one-day conference in Oxford in January. We are also still accepting abstracts if you would like to present your work in a friendly and supportive environment. It would be great to see you there!
Johanna L. Waters
Associate Professor in Human Geography
Director of Graduate Studies (Continuing Education)
Fellow of Kellogg College
University of Oxford
One-day Conference on Materialities and Mobilities in Education
Monday January 8th 2018
10am – 5pm (followed by drinks reception and book launch)
School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford
Convenors: Johanna Waters (University of Oxford) & Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey)
Sponsored by the
Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster (SoGE)
Keynote speakers
Michael Donnelly (University of Bristol): ‘Spatial imaginaries’ and the transition to university:
an intersectional analysis of class, ethnicity and place
Kirsty Finn (Lancaster University): Choreographies of belonging: Reimagining 'local' students' everyday (im)mobiities in Higher Education
Call for papers
This one-day event, hosted by the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, offers an opportunity for researchers to consider the much-neglected
materialities of educational processes (both historical and contemporary) and how those materialities might intersect with an understanding of educational mobilities, space and
place. Examples of ‘materialities’ affecting education might include: infrastructure and modes of transportation, architecture and urban design, furniture, books and stationery, forests and outdoor spaces, and various ‘props’ associated with learning. They
may also include the ‘stuff’ of credentialisation (exam scripts, certificates, marketing materials and banners). Our definition of materialities is, of course, not limited to these examples. Alongside this focus on the material is a concomitant interest in
mobilities and place; how education is constituted in and through mobilities (from the smallest to the most extensive) and is also embedded in various places. Again, we welcome papers that think through mobilities and place/space in an expansive and politically
progressive way.
We welcome both theoretical and more empirically-focused papers, and abstract submissions from ECRs as well as from more established scholars. We encourage participation from those
working in sociology, education and geography as well as in cognate disciplines.
Please send abstracts of 200 words to Johanna ([log in to unmask]) by Monday 6th
November. The event is free to attend, although places are limited on a first come, first served basis. Please email Johanna ([log in to unmask])
or Rachel ([log in to unmask]) to register.