Landscapes And Politics
>From 23rd - 25th March 2001 Landscapes and Politics, a three day
cross-disciplinary conference, will be held at the University of Edinburgh
. It will be hosted in association with the Department of Architecture,
University of Edinburgh, and the Department of Geography, Open University.
Speakers
Speakers include:
Stephen Bann (School of Arts and Image Studies, University of Kent at
Canterbury)
Barbara Bender (Department of Anthropology, University College London)
John Dixon Hunt (Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning, University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth Lebas (School of Arts, Design and Performing Arts, Middlesex
University)
Patricia Macdonald (independent artist and writer)
Kate Soper (School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London)
Call for Papers
The conference will seek to respond to the increasing interest in this
topic which is evident across a wide variety of disciplines and it will
provide a significant contribution to current debates by acting as an
important point of focus. The work that is being done in this area is
extremely heterogeneous, and the conference will embrace and reflect this.
In particular, it will be concerned to encourage innovative critical
approaches and to extend and deepen the field by opening up new themes for
investigation. Proposals for papers which attempt to do this will be
particularly welcome.
Potential speakers are free to submit abstracts that pertain to any aspect
of the general subject area but suggested themes include:
* landscape as event
* landscape and the 'trace'
* landscapes in film
* moral landscapes
* personified landscapes
* landscapes and the body
* landscapes and social policy
* utopian landscapes
* contemporary landscape representation
* landscape and the ideology of improvement
* landscape, identity, estrangement
* landscapes and war
* the new aesthetics of landscape
* landscapes and theatricality/performance
* somatic landscapes
* macro/global to micro/domestic landscapes
* landscapes and the politics of the past
It is assumed that the conference will focus on material from the
Renaissance to the present, but submissions dealing with earlier periods
will be considered.
Abstracts are to be 500-words long and should include the name of the
speaker, postal and email addresses, and details of their current
university or professional affiliation. The deadline for the receipt of
abstracts is 31st December 2000. It is hoped that most correspondence will
be able to take place by email and therefore potential speakers are
encouraged to submit abstracts to the conference assistant at the following
address: landscapes@caad.ed.ac.uk.
The postal address for the conference is:
Landscapes and Politics
Department of Architecture
University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
Edinburgh
EH41 4PL
Scotland.
Tel. +44 131 650 2338
Fax. +44 131 650 8019
A conference website is at http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk /events/landscapes/
It is intended that selected papers from the conference be published as an
edited collection.
Advisory Panel
An advisory panel for the conference has been set up. It includes:
Stephen Bann (School of Arts and Image Studies, University of Kent at
Canterbury)
Barbara Bender (Department of Anthropology, University College London)
Denis Cosgrove (Deaprtment of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles)
Elizabeth Ermarth (Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
John Dixon Hunt (Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning, University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth Lebas (School of Arts, Design and Performing Arts, Middlesex
University)
Patricia Macdonald (independent artist and writer)
Doreen Massey (Department of Geography, Open University)
Kate Soper (School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London)
Abstracts received will be refereed by members of the advisory panel.
Personnel
The conference organisers are Mark Dorrian (Department of Architecture,
University of Edinburgh) and Gillian Rose (Department of Geography, Open
University). The conference assistant is James How (Department of English,
University of Edinburgh).
Dr Mark Dorrian
Department of Architecture
University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH1 1JZ
Tel. +44 131 650-2338
fax. +44 131 650-8019
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