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The 15th Annual IASESP Conference: "Spaces and Places on the Edge: Margins, Borders, and Thresholds" Liverpool John Moores University April 24-26, 2019 Place or space identified as on the edge is often the result of a judgment from the center. But it is also along the edges that one can shape or define the center. Edge and center are clearly relational and dynamic. What is a liminal space from one perspective can be the center from another vantage point. A border or frontier can be a boundary defining a space, a frame, or a threshold to a different environment, a gateway. It can be a physical or virtual space as well as a psychological or emotional state. Where is the edge? Borders circumscribe or limit space but they also are zones of contact. How does one distinguish between a border and a threshold? How do people experience edges, borders, and thresholds (alarm, excitement, indifference)? This interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place and Liverpool John Moores University will explore questions related to spaces and places on the edge spatially, socially, politically, and metaphorically. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Barriers/perimeters Borderland(s) Boundaries Buffers/buffer zones Coastlines Dialectic of center and periphery, metropole and frontier Ecotones/ecoclines Extinction thresholds Fringe areas/movements Frontiers Horizons Interstices Liminality Marshes Mapping the edges Marginalia Marginalized people or places Midrash or Tafsir Natural or manmade borders Phenomenology of edges Suburbs Thresholds Please send an abstract and brief cv by 15 February 2019 to Troy Paddock, [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1