Dear forum,
The following is a call for papers at next year's (century, millennium etc)
IBG conference at Sussex, Brighton in the first week of next January. I
expect what we'll get is not offers of papers but deconstructions and
critiques of the themes and title - I look forward to them. Given the
twentieth century focus, I think it could be an interesting area of overlap
between the historial community and those who see themselves as contemporary
human geographers. Contributions from beyond the English empire gratefully
received - we may be able to tap into some limited funds for visiting
speakers.
Historical Geographies of Twentieth Century Britain
Proposals for papers are invited for a day long session at RGS-IBG 2000 at
Sussex University on Historical Geographies of Twentieth Century Britain,
organised by HGRG. The session aims to showcase the growing body of work by
historical geographers on the 20th century, and to highlight connections
between geographical studies and those in related disciplines, including
contemporary history, cultural studies and sociology.
Papers may address the following possible themes:
- Britain and modernity
- Nationhood(s) in 20th century Britain
- changing identities in 20th century Britain
- the shifting global role of Britain in the 20th century
- changing urban, regional and rural geographies
- the persistence/emergence of questions of land and environment
We particularly encourage papers which are broad in scope, addressing
developments over a significant part of the century
Proposals for contributions, consisting of a title and short abstract,
should be sent to one of the following convenors:
Dr David Gilbert
Department of Geography,Royal Holloway,University of London,Surrey TW20 0EX.
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Dr David Matless
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham
NG7 2RD
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Dr Brian Short
School of Cultural and Community Studies, Essex House, University of
Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ
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