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SECOND  CALL FOR PAPERS - EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES CONFERENCE

Emotional Geographies

An interdisciplinary conference on the place of emotions in everyday life,
hosted by The Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, 23rd- 25th
September 2002.

Advisory Committee: Kay Anderson, Joyce Davidson, Rosaleen Duffy, Mary Evans,
Anthony Gatrell, Christine Milligan, Mick Smith, Susan Smith, Bronisalw
Szerszynski, Carol Thomas.

Speakers / Sessions include:
Sara Ahmed - 'Affective Economies'
Liz Bondi - 'Counselling, Psychotherapy and Geographies of Care'
Erica Burman - 'Emotions in the Classroom'
Ian Craib - 'Headaches, Heartaches and Pains in the Arse'
Mike Hepworth - 'Ageing and the Emotions'
Val Plumwood - 'Sympathy and Solidarity with Nature'
Gillian Rose - 'Everybody's cuddled up and it's just really nice': talking to
mums about their family photos'
John Urry - 'The Place of Emotions within Places'
Gill Valentine - 'I just felt different though for a long time I didn't
understand why': Emotional geographies of coming out as lesbian or gay'

Second Call For Papers
Contributions to the conference will consist of 20 minute papers (15 for
presentation, 5 for discussion). Potential contributors should submit abstracts
of up to 300 words, highlighting 3 key words, to the conference organiser by
31st July 2002.
A full conference outline can be found on the linked website -
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ihr/emotionalgeographiesconference - which will be
regularly updated with information on booking, accommodation and programme
details. It is intended that a selection of papers from Emotional Geographies
will form the basis of an edited collection to be published in 2003.

Potential Themes
This list of themes and topics for discussion is intended to be suggestive
rather than exhaustive, and contributions are invited on any area of relevance
to Emotional Geographies.

The gender(ing) of emotions
Consuming emotions: The role of foods and other 'goods' in everyday life

Agony and ecstasy: Drug and alcohol use for mood alteration     Ethnicity and
emotions, cultural differences
Therapeutic Landscapes Desire, sexuality and relationships      The
medicalization of emotions
Creative passions: Emotion, aesthetics and the Arts     Memory, emotion and the
life-course
Emotional attachment to the non-human world: Environmental protection and
direct action   Institutionalised emotions: The academy and beyond
Class, poverty and emotional 'well-being'       Embodiment and emotions
Domestic bliss? Emotional geographies of 'home':        Disgust and the
maintenance of boundaries
Geographies of fear and hatred  Civilizing emotions
Senses, emotions and metaphors  Panic and postmodernity
Irrationality and emotional selves Emotional politics and the politics of
emotion The genealogy of emotions Emotional Politics and the politics of
emotion
*       Urban stress, rural tranquillity?
*       Emotions in counselling and psychoanalysis


Abstracts should be sent to:

Joyce Davidson
The Institute for Health Research
Alexandra Square
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
United Kingdom
Tel: (00 44) 01524 592238
Fax: (00 44) 01524 592401
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Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ihr/emotionalgeographiesconference







Christine Barry,
Research Fellow,
Centre for the Study of Health, Sickness and Disablement,
Brunel University,
Uxbridge,
Middlesex,
UB8 3PH,
UK.

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