InterPhil: CFP: Space and Place
__ Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Type: 7th Global Meeting Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 1.–3.9.2016 Deadline: 1.4.2016 __ Space and place affect the very way in which we experience, understand, navigate and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against marginalised individuals, groups and populations, constructing a lived landscape of inclusion and exclusion. Space and place are also the focus of the creation and contestation of uncontainable mobilities — be they human, identities, cultures, meanings, information, finances and objects — that are causing geographies to shift and change. Moreover, the existence of space and place are (is?) irrevocably intertwined with, and created by, technologies, communication and culture, knowledge, politics, economics, power and lived experience. Understanding spatial relationships and the tensions and dynamics that inform them enables us to gain important insights into the processes that configure the spaces and places that we move through, inhabit and live in, as well as the nature of our existence. Now in its seventh year, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues is an established annual interdisciplinary conference project that encourages critical and collegial dialogue. Recognising that different disciplines and practices express themselves through different modes, media and formats we strongly encourage the submission of proposals from creative practitioners — artists, architects, writers, photographers, painters, film-makers, performers, urban planners — as well as people from related professions, industries and activities and alternative forms of performance. Critical accounts and descriptions of problem-solving activities from ongoing projects that function to alter the nature space and place as well as from projects that are in development are also most welcome. We also strongly encourage traditional papers, panels and workshop proposals. We seek to create a dialogue amongst individuals and groups who are concerned about the complex nature of space and place. Performances, presentations, reports, works-in-progress, papers and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes: 1. Theorising space and place: How do space and place exist? What aspects of human, and non-human behaviour act upon and constitute space and place? From Deleuze to Latour to Hayles; from theories of becoming to Actor-Network Theory to New Materialism, space and place have become increasingly important dimensions to social and political thought. We welcome any and all forms of presentations that seek to participate and intervene in this critically important dialogue. 2. The situation and location of identities in space and place: How is our sense of self and our relationship to others constituted through our existence in space and place? How do space and place interpellate the subject? How do human endeavours affect the constitution of space and place and in so doing affect the nature of our sense of self? How have the gradual decline of the nation-state and the ascendance of the network state (Castells) affected the relationship between the national identities of subjects and the state within which they were born? We are moving away from rights based on presence in space to rights based on legal status. What does this mean for both national subjects and the space of the nation? 3. The space and place of the networked home: The concept and structure of the home has, and continues, to occupy a privileged position in human existence. How do the Internet, new media and the build out of connected devices, appliances and other technologies increasingly found in the home change the nature of the home as a space and our place within it. 4. The creation and contestation of existing spaces and places: How have existing spaces and places been created in the past, and how are they lived in at present. Can we say that our existence in a given space or place is ever and always without some form of contestation? If not, then how is our living in an existing space or place contested in the present? What does this mean for our existence as individuals, groups and communities in terms of the spaces and places that we inhabit? How is the distinction between the public and private ownership of space affected by this ongoing contestation? Does this distinction between private and public even make sense in a world where people are increasingly mobile, and the articulation of neoliberal property and economic rights that are attached to this mobility are attempting to extinguish the legitimacy of public spaces and the public ownership and governance of places? What is the future of public space in a world that is increasingly neoli
InterPhil: CFP: Space and Place
__ Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Type: 6th Global Meeting Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 3.–5.9.2015 Deadline: 1.5.2015 __ Space and place affect the very way in which we experience, understand, navigate and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against marginalised individuals, groups and populations, constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement, inclusion and exclusion — whether it be in terms of ideology, nationality, culture, economic status, religious orientation, gender or sexuality. Space and place, are also the focus of the creation and contestation of uncontainable mobilities — the continual movement and shifting of people, identities, cultures, meanings, information, finances and objects — that are disrupting the nature and constitution of the spaces and places that we have lived in; our homes, our neighbourhoods, our cities, countries and continents. Moreover, the existence of space and place are irrevocably intertwined with, and created by, technologies, communication and culture, politics, economics, power, knowledge and lived experience. Understanding spatial relationships and the tensions and dynamics that both exist within and inform space and place, enables us to gain important insights into the processes that configure the spaces and places that we move through, inhabit and live within, as well as the nature of our existence as it is informed by such a crucial dimension of human life. Now in its sixth year, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues is an established annual interdisciplinary conference project that encourages critical and collegial dialogue about questions of space and place. Recognising that different disciplines and practices express themselves through different modes, media and formats we welcome the submission of proposals from creative practitioners — artists, architects, writers, photographers, painters, film-makers, performers, urban planners and people from related professions, industries and activities and alternative forms of performance, who wish to discuss and showcase their work. Critical accounts and descriptions of problem-solving activities from ongoing projects that function to alter the landscape of space and place — urban renewal, housing development, the development of new forms of mobility, to name just three — as well as from projects that are in development, are also most welcome. We also welcome traditional papers, panels and workshop proposals. We seek to create a dialogue amongst individuals and groups who are concerned about the nature of space and place, the complexities found in both space and place and the relationship of space to place, along with their meaning. Performances, presentations, reports, works-in-progress, papers and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes: 1. The Situation and Location of Identities in Space and Place: How is our sense of self and our relationship to others constituted through our existence in space and place? How do human endeavours affect the constitution of space and place and in so doing affect the nature of our sense of self? 2. The Space and Place of the Networked Home: The concept and structure of the home has, and continues, to occupy a privileged position in human existence. How do the Internet, new media and the build out of connected devices, appliances and other technologies increasingly found in the home change the nature of the home as a space and our place within it. 3. The Creation and Contestation of Existing Spaces and Places: How have existing spaces and places been created in the past, and how are they lived in at present. Can we say that our existence in a given space or place is ever and always without some form of contestation? If not, then how is our living in an existing space or place contested in the present? What does this mean for our existence as individuals, groups and communities in terms of the spaces and places that we inhabit? 4. The Repurposing of Existing Spaces and Places: Tobacco curing facilities in Durham, North Carolina, have become chic niche stores for the wealthy and educated; warehouses in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, have become live-work spaces for artists, entrepreneurs and small start-ups; a church in New York City has become one of its landmark performance spaces. What are the processes — local, national, global — that lead to the repurposing of existing spaces and places? How do these processes, and the restructuring that they lead to, affect the existence of individuals and groups who have made use of these spaces and places prior to their repurposing? What do they foretell for future acts of repurposing? 5. Theorising Space and Place: How do
InterPhil: CFP: Space and Place
__ Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Type: 5th Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 3.–5.9.2014 Deadline: 4.4.2014 __ Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate. We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following: 1. Theorising Space and Place - Philosophies and space and place - Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life - Space and place as realms of becoming - Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a “meshwork of paths” (Ingold: 2008) - The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005) - The language and semiotics of space and place 2.The situation and location of Identities - Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres - Work spaces and hierarchies of power - Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism - Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space - Disabled spaces/places - Queer places and spaces - Alterity and its relationship to the production of space and place - Spatialities in Rural areas of nature - Queer Ruralities - Dangerous Nature vs. Civilisation 3. The Contestation of Existing Spaces and Places - Contemporary local and global political insurgencies and the politics of occupation in urban spaces and places, including the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the London Riots and the incursion by M23 into the DRC - The economic, political, social and cultural contestation of urban space and its effect upon the production of place - The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism, class politics, or ethnic and cultural heterogeneity - The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space - Territorial wars, both real and imagined - The relationship between the global and the local and their relationship to space and place - Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces - Space and place from colonisation to globalisation - Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place - Transnational and translocal spaces and places 4. Representations of place and space - Embodied/disembodied spaces - Lived spaces and the places of the architecture of identity - Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces - Set design the construction of space and the representation of place in film, television and theatre - Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts - Technology and developments in the representation of space and place including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing - Future cities/futurology and the future of urban space and place - Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts - The spaces and places of and within digital gaming and digital games 5. Networks of Mobility and the Relationship to Movement and Space - The spaces of flows - Mobility, movement, and their effects upon the production and ontology of space and place - Non-spaces and their relationship to mobility and movement - The space of Immobile mobiles (Urry, Castells) and their effects upon the nature of place - The places of mobility Presentations on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our
InterPhil: CFP: Space and Place
__ Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Subtitle: Exploring Critical Issues Type: 4th Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 9.–12.9.2013 Deadline: 22.3.2013 __ Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate. We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following: 1. Theorising Space and Place ~ Philosophies and space and place ~ Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life ~ Space and place as realms of becoming ~ Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a “meshwork of paths” (Ingold: 2008) ~ The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005) ~ The language and semiotics of space and place 2. The situation and location of Identities ~ Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres ~ Work spaces and hierarchies of power ~ Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism ~ Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space ~ Disabled spaces/places ~ Queer places and spaces ~ Alterity and its relationship to the production of space and place ~ Spatialities in Rural areas of nature ~ Queer Ruralities ~ Dangerous Nature vs. Civilisation 3. The Contestation of Existing Spaces and Places ~ Contemporary local and global political insurgencies and the politics of occupation in urban spaces and places, including the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the London Riots and the incursion by M23 into the DRC ~ The economic, political, social and cultural contestation of urban space and its effect upon the production of place ~ The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism, class politics, or ethnic and cultural heterogeneity ~ The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space ~ Territorial wars, both real and imagined. ~ The relationship between the global and the local and their relationship to space and place ~ Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces ~ Space and place from colonisation to globalisation ~ Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place ~ Transnational and translocal spaces and places 4. Representations of place and space ~ Embodied/disembodied spaces ~ Lived spaces and the places of the architecture of identity ~ Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces ~ Set design the construction of space and the representation of place in film, television and theatre ~ Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts ~ Technology and developments in the representation of space and place including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing ~ Future cities/futurology and the future of urban space and place ~ Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts ~ The spaces and places of and within digital gaming and digital games 5. Networks of Mobility and the Relationship to Movement and Space ~ The spaces of flows ~ Mobility, movement, and their effects upon the production and ontology of space and place ~ Non-spaces and their relationship to mobility and movement ~ The space of Immobile mobiles (Urry, Castells) and their effects upon the nature of place ~ The places of mobility What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the con
InterPhil: CFP: Space and Place
__ Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Type: 3rd Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 3.–6.9.2012 Deadline: 16.3.2012 __ Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructed a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate. We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following: 1. Theorising Space and Place ~ Philosophies and space and place ~ Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life ~ Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a “meshwork of paths” (Ingold: 2008) ~ The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005) ~ The language and semiotics of space and place 2. Situated Identities ~ Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres ~ Work spaces and hierarchies of power ~ Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism ~ Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space ~ Disabled spaces/places ~ Queer places and spaces 3. Contested spaces ~ The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism ~ The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space ~ Territorial wars, both real and imagined ~ The relationship between the global and the local ~ Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces ~ Space and place from colonisation to globalisation ~ Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place ~ Transnational and translocal places 4. Representations of place and space ~ Embodied/disembodied spaces ~ Lived spaces and the architecture of identity ~ Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces ~ Set design and the construction of space in film, television and theatre ~ Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts ~ Technology and developments in the representation of space including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing ~ Future cities/futurology and space ~ Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts ~ Space in computer games Papers on any other topic related to the theme will also be considered. This project will run concurrently with our project on Reframing Punishment – we welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing issues on Reframing Punishment and Space and Place for a cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed panels on any aspect of Space or Place or in relation to crossover panel(s). 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords E-mails should be entitled: SP Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyber
InterPhil: CFP: Space and Place
__ Call for Papers Theme: Space and Place Type: 1st Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) List-Post: interphil@polylog.org Date: 14.–16.9.2011 Deadline: 22.4.2011 __ Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructed a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate. We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the following: 1. Theorising Space and Place * Philosophies and space and place * Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of contemporary life * Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a “meshwork of paths” (Ingold: 2008) * The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005) * The language and semiotics of space and place 2. Situated Identities * Gendered spaces including the tension between domestic and public spheres * Work spaces and hierarchies of power * Geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism * Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space * Disabled spaces/places * Queer places and spaces 3. Contested spaces * The politics and ideology of constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism. * The relationship between power, knowledge and the construction of place and space * Territorial wars, both real and imagined. * The relationship between the global and the local * Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces * Space and place from colonisation to globalisation * Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place * Transnational and translocal places 4. Representations of place and space * Embodied/disembodied spaces * Lived spaces and the architecture of identity * Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces * Set design and the construction of space in film, television and theatre * Authenticity and the reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts * Technology and developments in the representation of space including new media technologies and 3D technologies of viewing * Future cities/futurology and space * Representations of the urban and the city in the media and creative arts * Space in computer games 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd April 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd July 2011. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract E-mails should be entitled: SP Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith Conference Leaders Inter-Disciplinary.Net New Zealand E-mail: s...@inter-disciplinary.net Colette Balmain Inter-Disciplinary.Net London, United Kingdom E-mail: c...@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher Network Founder and Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net Oxfordshire, United Kingdom E-mail: s...@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the ‘Ethos’ series of research
