***Reminder***
Dear all,
Please put
the following centenary seminar of the Geography Department in your diary for coming
Wednesday 5 February 1-2pm in Wallace 129 (Zoology). Dr Kieron Smith, who is now back at Swansea University, will
discuss the Literary Atlas of Wales project, and anyone with an interest in Welsh culture, the literary/fiction, memory, mapping, landscape, and digital technologies will find
this a great talk!
Literary Atlas: Plotting English Language Novels in Wales
Dr Kieron Smith, Swansea University
Literary Atlas, an AHRC-funded collaboration between academics at the universities of Cardiff and Swansea, set out to unpack the
rich connections between literature and place. The project explored new ways of 'mapping' these links in order to examine and stimulate interest in culture, people, place, and history. Through a range of research activities, including the creation of an online
resource (www.literaryatlas.wales), public focus groups, literary field trips, and a touring exhibition of commissioned cartographic artworks, the project asked a range of questions: what role does culture play
in the construction of places? What role does place play in the production of culture? How does literary culture impact on the ways individuals and communities inhabit and experience places? What role can digital mapping play in strengthening and enriching
community identity and lived experience?
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Kieron Smith is an interdisciplinary researcher working in the fields of Welsh culture and politics. He worked as Research Associate
on the Literary Atlas project at Cardiff University. His publications include John Ormond's Organic Mosaic: Poetry, Documentary, Nation (UWP, 2019) and New Theoretical Perspectives on Dylan Thomas (UWP, 2020). He is currently an Honorary Research Associate
at CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), Swansea University.
Twitter: @kieron_d_smith
Many thanks and see you there!
Diana
Dr. Diana Beljaars
ESRC Research Fellow
Department of Geography
Adran Ddaearyddiaeth
Swansea University
Prifysgol Abertawe
Wallace Building, Room 210
Adeilad Wallace, Ystafell 210
SA2 8PP Swansea, Wales, UK
SA2 8PP Abertawe, Cymru, DU
+44 (0)1792602801
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We welcome correspondence in Welsh or English.
Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg neu yn Saesneg.
Recent publications:
Beljaars, D. (2019)
Towards
Compulsive Geographies, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Drozynski, C. & Beljaars, D. (Eds.) (2019)
Civic
Spaces and Desire (Routledge)