Will Hasty wrote:
> Apologies for cross posting
>>> _*Call for papers*_
>>>
>>> _**_
>>> _*RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester: 26-28 August 2009*_
>>> _*
>>> *_** <https://gesmail.physics.gla.ac.uk/webmail/www.rgs.org/AC2009>_**_
>>> Session Title:* Certain subjects? Constructing identities,
>>> personalities and personas from the archive.*
>>> Sponsored by the *Historical Geography Research Group*
>>> //Session Organisers:/ *Isla Forsyth, Will Hasty, Cheryl McGeachan
>>> and Jo Norcup*/* (University of Glasgow)*
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>>> ‘I have become a collector of shards. Shards of memory, things
>>> passed down: told to me at the end of this long line of telling. I
>>> want to catch these shards, these half-lit, often, paste jewels. I
>>> don’t know how authentic they are, does it even matter? For me it
>>> doesn’t matter. I am making anew, building something from the
>>> remains. Wanting to honour the fleeting; the fragment, fractured
>>> histories and stories. Not passed down, but dredged up.’ (Terri-Ann
>>> White, 2004)
>>>
>>> For the historical geographer the site of the archive has always
>>> been one of significance, a treasure trove of wonderments, and often
>>> deep frustrations. In its many guises, the archive provides the
>>> researcher with the opportunity to explore the terrains of worlds
>>> past through the /lives/ of real people. Lives can be
>>> (re)constructed through (geo)biographical research, fragments of a
>>> life pieced together from the texts, memories and artefacts of the
>>> archive; and, if only momentarily, that life has an afterlife, a
>>> second opportunity to exert an affect upon the world.
>>>
>>> This session aims to critically engage with the archival encounter,
>>> the interaction between researcher and subject, and ask questions
>>> about the different types of identities, personalities, and personas
>>> which can emerge through archival investigation. What types of
>>> identities are being constructed by the researcher and in doing so
>>> what is inevitably being left hidden? What different types of
>>> archives are being used to construct these identities, personalities
>>> and personas? In what ways are we implicit in the creation of
>>> identity, personality and persona attributed to our certain
>>> subjects, indeed in what ways are our subjects certain at all?
>>>
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>>> Potential topics that papers could focus upon include (but are not
>>> limited
>>> to):
>>> · The alternative types of archives being sought out by the
>>> historical geographer
>>> · The different types of stories/narratives emerging from these
>>> alternative sources
>>> · Questions arising from the ‘incomplete’ archive and what
>>> challenges this can pose for the historical researcher
>>> · The role of the researcher in constructing the different
>>> identities, personalities and personas of their chosen subjects
>>> · The implications of absence in the archive
>>> If you are interested in submitting a paper, please contact Cheryl
>>> McGeachan ([log in to unmask]).The deadline for
>>> submission of abstracts is February 3rd 2009. Please include the
>>> following information when you submit your abstract:
>>>
>>> Name
>>> Affiliation
>>> Contact email
>>> Title of proposed paper
>>> Abstract (no more than 250 words)
>>> Any technical requirements (video, data projector, sound, etc.)
>>>
>>>
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