CFP: Two-Way Way Traffic: Urban & Suburban Space (grad) (UK) (5/1/05; 6/25/05)

Two-Way Traffic: Representing Urban and Suburban Spaces

Third Annual Postgraduate Conference,
Department of English, University of Dundee

Sat 25th June 2005

We continually move between places - workplaces, homes, bars, restaurants, shops. Our relationships with these environments helps define how we organise and conceptualise our lives. Journeying to these spaces may take us from the city to the suburb and back again, but what values do we ascribe to these different localities? This conference will examine the importance of the representation of urban, suburban and sub/urban spaces in literature, art, and popular culture. Suggested themes may include; the semiology of the city, mythic images of suburbia, traffic between these spaces (both literally and in ideological terms), the liminal territory between the urban and the suburban, industrial sites, surveillance and containment, security and exclusion, the social and political implications of representing the relationship between city, suburb, and countryside, and the aesthetics of modern living in contemporary literature and artworks.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 1st May 2005.

This conference has been organised by postgraduates and staff at the Department of English, University of Dundee as part of an ongoing series of annual graduate conferences to be held in Dundee.
 
Conference fee: £5.00 This includes lunch and tea/coffee at breaks throughout the day. Please contact us if you have any special requirements (dietary, access etc). We plan to have dinner following the conference. All delegates and attendees are invited to attend. For more information please contact: Kevin Corstorphine (PG Rep) or Chris Murray, Department of English, 162 Nethergate, University of Dundee, DD1 4HN,
E-mail: k.e.corstorphine_at_dundee.ac.uk / c.murray_at_dundee.ac.uk
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/postgrads

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