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Dear All, Please find below our Call for Papers for the 2018 RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Cardiff. Best and festive wishes, Angeliki and Esther *Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff, 28 – 31 August 2018* *The Cultural Politics of Lingering* *Sponsored by: *the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group *Session convenors:* Esther Hitchen (Durham University) and Angeliki Balayannis (University of Melbourne) Lingering lengthens time and reconfigures space. In doing so it is a fundamentally geographical concept. Etymologically, to linger means to reside or dwell, but also, to delay going, to depart slowly, and unwillingly. Within cultural geography, lingering is a commonly used but taken-for-granted term. It is largely invoked as a descriptor or metaphor for crafting other thematically related concepts – in particular, haunting (Edensor, 2008), absent-presence (Wylie, 2009), trauma (Preser, 2017), residues (Krupar, 2013), traces (Hetherington, 2004), fragments (DeSilvey, 2006), ruin (DeSilvey and Edensor, 2013), and discards (Crewe, 2011; Stanes & Gibson, 2017). This session, however, aims to consider how lingering can be conceptualised in itself and be used to bring diverse literatures into conversation. This session raises questions about what lingering is, does, where it may happen, and how it unfolds: What are the temporalities of lingering – how does it endure, persist, or stretch space-times? What are its spatialities, such as within particular landscapes, sites, and institutions? What kinds of relations are formed or reconfigured through the act of lingering? How can we think about lingering politically, for example, as a mode of action, as a disruption, as a refusal to disappear? In what ways is lingering used within different methodological approaches, including ethnographic work, participatory methods, and artistic practice? And how can lingering be thought of through both the representational and non-representational? This session welcomes papers or alternative methods of representing research on a range of themes, including, but not limited to: - The affective life of lingering - Materialities of lingering - Lingering as affirmative and/or negative - Embodied forms of lingering - Racialised, gendered, and/or queer politics of lingering - Lingering across different scales - Lingering with/in infrastructures - More-than-human forms of lingering - Lingering institutions and legacies Please send abstracts (maximum of 250 words) and author details to both Angeliki Balayannis ([log in to unmask]) and Esther Hitchen ([log in to unmask]) by February 2nd 2018. Crewe L (2011) Life itemised: lists, loss, unexpected significance, and the enduring geographies of discard. *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space*, 29: 27-46. DeSilvey C (2006) Observed decay: telling stories with mutable things. *Journal of Material Culture* 11: 318-38. DeSilvey C & Edensor T (2013) Reckoning with ruins. *Progress in Human Geography *37: 465-85. Edensor T (2008) Mundane hauntings: commuting through the phantasmagoric working-class spaces of Manchester, England. *Cultural Geographies *15: 313-333. Hetherington K (2004) Secondhandedness: Consumption, Disposal, and Absent Presence. *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space* 22: 157-73. Krupar SR (2013) *Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste.* Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. Preser R (2017) Lost and found in Berlin: identity, ontology, and the emergence of Queer Zion. *Gender Place and Culture* 24: 413-425. Stanes E & Gibson C (2017) Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes. *Geoforum* 85: 27-36. Wylie J (2009) Landscape, absence and the geographies of love. *Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers* 34: 275-89. *Angeliki Balayannis* Doctoral Candidate School of Geography The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 Twitter <https://twitter.com/ABalayannis> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angeliki_Balayannis>