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***WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING*** Dear all, Due to some last minute cancellations, we have two spaces left for our upcoming event on Friday (detailed below). If anyone would like to attend, please just send a short email to myself ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Jenny ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) We would also be really grateful if you could share details of this event with anyone else you feel may be interested in attending. All the best, Nina and Jenny Making diaries, making archives, making blogs: accounting for everyday life online and exploring the spaces and practices of social media Friday May 24 2019, 13:00-17:00 11 Bedford Square, Room 2-05 Royal Holloway, University of London The purpose of this interdisciplinary afternoon workshop is to bring together scholars from the UK and overseas with a shared interest in methodologies for exploring social media, specifically blogs, vlogs and blog/vlogospheres and the opportunities and challenges involved in both their production and their examination. A further focus of the workshop is understanding these activities and spaces, as spaces where women can, and are, writing their own history. Here there is a multitude of questions that can be explored - such as: Why do women create such spaces of memory? In what ways do these creative spaces matter? How can we understand and approach these spaces? How do women’s pre-digital-era detailed accounts of everyday life – such as travel diaries, pocket diaries and photo albums – compare and contrast with their online equivalents? Are we in need of new tools and perspectives? How can we balance our understanding of the personal elements of such constructions with their professional and commercial aspects? The workshop will include a talk by Dr. Sally Bayley (Oxford University), based on her recent study of the diary and journal as a form of literary and social self-construction. Her book The Private Life of the Diary From Pepys to Tweets: A history of the diary as an artform (2016) explores diary making as a form of private and public identity as it is constructed across history. This will be followed by a round table discussion. During the workshop, we also aim to identify and discuss the current state of knowledge and research gaps in order to develop a future research agenda for how we can better use and approach social media data, blogs and blogospheres from a feminist perspective. We hope this workshop will provide an opportunity to serve as the foundation for establishing a network of scholars working on such issues in the geohumanities and beyond. Hosting institution: Centre for the GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway University of London In collaboration with: Department of Geography University of Portsmouth Department of Geography Stockholm University Organisers: Jenny Sjöholm Centre for the Geohumanities RHUL Nina Willment Department of Geography RHUL Taylor Brydges Department of Geography Stockholm University Carol Ekinsmyth Department of Geography University of Portsmouth Refreshments will be served There is no fee for participation ######################################################################## 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