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>>>GEOGRAPHIES OF HOME
>>>8-9 November 2000, UCL (University College London)
>>>Convenors: Alison Blunt (Queen Mary, London) & Ann Varley (UCL)
>>>
>>>'Geographies of Home' will explore the imaginative geographies and lived
>>>experiences of home on domestic, national and transnational scales. Key
>>>conference themes include the spatial politics of home, home and identity,
>>>dwelling and mobility, and belonging and exclusion. Many papers will be
>>>located at the interfaces of feminist, postcolonial and development
>>>theories as they explore revisionings of home and the broader connections
>>>between place, space, identity and power.
>>>
>>>* Registration: (£45 or £30 for postgraduates) via conference web site:
>>>http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/geographies_of_home.stm
>>>Deadline 15 October 2000
>>>
>>>* Speakers and brief titles (abstracts available on conference web site)
>>>
>>>Jorella Andrews (Historical & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, London)
>>>Moufida Tlatli's The Silences of the Palace: A cartography of servitude
>>>
>>>Katharine Arntz (Geography, Birmingham) Images and representations of
>>>house and home in inter-war Germany.
>>>
>>>Hannah Avis (Geography, Edinburgh) Always the child? (Dis)placing memories
>>>of childhood in the establishment of adult homes.
>>>
>>>Alison Blunt (Geography, Queen Mary, London) Anglo-Indian women and the
>>>spatial politics of home
>>>
>>>Inga Bryden (Cultural Studies, King Alfred's Winchester) The haveli as
>>>home in Jaipur
>>>
>>>Alison Clarke (Royal College of Art, London) Ideal and actual homes in
>>>North London
>>>
>>>Tracey Coates and Maureen Fordham (Geography, Anglia Polytechnic
>>>University) 'You can't replace memories.' What disasters reveal about home
>>>and identity.
>>>
>>>Renate Dohmen (Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, London) A place
>>>called home
>>>
>>>Inge Daniels (Anthropology, UCL) The 'untidy' Japanese house: an
>>>ethnography of the home
>>>
>>>Lisa Doyle (Cultural and Community Studies, Sussex) Women's experiences of
>>>home and homelessness
>>>
>>>Adam Drazin (Anthropology, UCL) Wood and domesticity in urban Romania
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>>>James Duncan (Geography, Cambridge) Home alone? Masculinity, discipline
>>>and erasure in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon
>>>
>>>Nancy Duncan (Geography, Cambridge) tba
>>>
>>>Becky Ellis (Geography, Sheffield) Performance, performativity and the
>>>(re)constitution of home space - two Norfolk case studies
>>>
>>>Becky Elmhirst (Geography, Brighton) Domesticating difference: home and the
>>>politics of identity in an 'out-of-the-way place'
>>>
>>>Nick Fyfe and Margaret Greene (Geography, Dundee & Strathclyde) Fear,
>>>forced migration and the meaning of home
>>>
>>>Janet Floyd (Cultural Studies, King Alfred's Winchester) Revisiting the
>>>'small dark workshop of the house'.
>>>
>>>Graciela de Gary (Instituto Mora, Mexico) Who's in charge when Mummy is at
>>>work? The Multifamiliar Miguel Alemán (1949-2000)
>>>
>>>Kate Gough (Geography, Copenhagen) Home as a place of work:
>>>income-generating activities in urban homes in Ghana
>>>
>>>Maggie Gregory (City and Regional Planning, Cardiff) Improving spaces:
>>>influences on homeowner investment in the home
>>>
>>>Craig M. Gurney (City and Regional Planning, Cardiff) All the home's a
>>>stage? Privacy, performance and the myth of the back region.
>>>
>>>Fiona Hackney (Goldsmiths College, London) Home-making and identity in
>>>women's magazines, 1919-39.
>>>
>>>Julienne Hanson (Architecture, UCL) Learning from experience: morphology
>>>and meaning in older people's home lives.
>>>
>>>Jenny Hockey (Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, Hull) Boundaries of
>>>home/Limits of self
>>>
>>>Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine (Geography, Loughborough & Sheffield)
>>>Children at home in the wired world
>>>
>>>Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe (Sociology & Anthropology, East London) Township tours
>>>as spectacles of domesticity and spectres of apartheid in Cape Town, South
>>>Africa
>>>
>>>Andrea Kilgour (Geography, Liverpool) Economic transformation and its
>>>consequences for the marginalised in Vietnamese society
>>>
>>>Mark Llewellyn (Geography, Swansea) British domestic architecture and the
>>>reconceptualisation of gendered space, 1934-44
>>>
>>>Jean-Sébastien Marcoux (Anthropology, UCL) Inhabiting a succession of
>>>places: house moving in Montreal
>>>
>>>Sallie Marston (Geography, Arizona) A long way from home: domesticating the
>>>social construction of scale
>>>
>>>Paula Meth (Environment & Development, Sheffield Hallam) Ideas of home:
>>>domestic violence, violence and gender
>>>
>>>Daniel Miller (Anhropology, UCL) Estate agency
>>>
>>>Katharyne Mitchell (Geography, Washington, Seattle) Monstrous homes and
>>>relations of power
>>>
>>>Robina Mohammad (Geography, KCL) State feminist literatures and the project
>>>for the development of gender equality in contemporary Spain
>>>
>>>Alastair Owens (Geography, Luton) Gender, property and the social
>>>reproduction of domesticity in early nineteenth-century England
>>>
>>>Geraldine Pratt (Geography, British Columbia) Feeling at home in
>>>transnational space.
>>>
>>>Deborah Ryan (History, Ulster) Ideas of home in the life and pageants of
>>>Frank Lascelles, 1875-1934
>>>
>>>Ann Schlyter (Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden) Meanings of home and home
>>>ownership in Southern Africa
>>>
>>>Rob Stone (Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, London) Made you
>>>feel at home, did they? Domestic acoustics in the 1930s
>>>
>>>Nicola Thomas (Geography, Oxford) Mary Curzon, Vicereign of India
>>>1898-1905: negotiating the boundaries of 'home'
>>>
>>>Dvya Tolia-Kelly (Geography, UCL) Cultures of identity-making: diasporic
>>>negotiations of 'home'
>>>
>>>Ann Varley and Maribel Blasco (Geography, UCL) Exiled to the home?
>>>Masculinity and ageing in urban Mexico
>>>
>>>Emma Wainwright (Geography, St Andrews) Home, philanthropy, and the place
>>>of the female jute worker
>>>
>>>Wendy Webster (History, Central Lancashire) 'Home' and 'away' : gender,
>>>empire and adventure in Britain, 1934-59
>>>
>>>Teresa Young (Science Studies, Lancaster) 'It would kill me to go, it
>>>would kill me to stay.' Houses, bodies and homes on a Lancaster housing
>>estate
>>>
>>>
>>>***************************************************************
>>>Dr Ann Varley
>>>Department of Geography
>>>UCL (University College London)
>>>26 Bedford Way
>>>London WC1H 0AP
>>>Tel +44 (0)20 7679 5519
>>>Fax +44 (0)20 7679 7565
>>>http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~avarley/
>>>
>>>Geographies of Home Conference
>>>8 and 9 November 2000, UCL
>>>http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/geographies_of_home.stm
>>>
>>>
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Dr Jane Wills
Department of Geography
Queen Mary and Westfield College
University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
0207 7882 5414
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