Recharging the urban mind. Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers. 2nd Global Conference Monday 16th May – Wednesday 18th May 2011 Warsaw, Poland The programme for the conference is available below.
Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation. Final Conference Programme Monday 16th May 2011 from 12.30 Registration 13.30Welcome and Opening Words Sorcha Ní Fhlainn 14.00Session 1: Love Will Keep Us Together…NOT! “No More America?” Love will Tear Us Apart … Again: The Endurance of the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth in Goth Subculture Kathryn Franklin Postmodern and Gothic Hybridity in Nick Cave’s “And the Ass Saw the Angel” Joanna Babicka 15:30 Tea 16:00Session 2: King and Company Chair: Victoria Amador Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism, and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King Kevin Corstorphine 17.30 Notices and Announcements Wine Reception Tuesday 17th May 2011 09:00 10:30 Coffee.
Monuments. Untitled. Main Source: de Certeau, Michel.
The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1984, 2002. See de Certeau's "Spatial Stories" in The Practice of Everyday Life Michel de Certeau argues that "space is a practiced place". What does this mean? It refers to the kinds of stories we tell about "where" "Stories thus carry out a labor that constantly transforms places into spaces or spaces into places. " (118) Tours and Maps If we are trying to describe where we are, we might give a story which is like a map. A tour is different from a map in that it involves action.
Marking Out Boundaries Stories also mark out boundaries. 1. And there are spaces of transgression. 2. Certeau quotes a poem: One time there was a picket fenceWith space to gaze from hence to thence.An architect who saw this sightApproached it suddenly one nightRemoved the spaces from the fenceAnd built of them a residenceThe senate had to interveneThe architect, however, flew What's the point? Space. Space_Lect5. Goodchild_01. Spatial theory, cultural geography, and the 'spatial turn' I'm currently working on various seminar papers, and the mood among many historians is that we need theory back in history.
James Vernon made an impassioned plea for a return to theory in his plenary lecture for the 2011 Social History Society conference. Basically his message was 'what are we afraid of? ' A focus on empiricism has meant we have lost sight of the big ideas, and the big frameworks that shape history. The SHS used to have a theory strand for its conference, but we dropped it a few years ago because the number of papers offered was in decline.
In response to Joyce, however, the SHS has reintroduced the 'theory and methods' strand for the next conference. I too have neglected theory for the past few years. Now historians seem to be taking the 'spatial turn'. So here's a quick cribsheet for the three modes of space, and a hint at where I fit. 1. 2. 3. So what lessons can we learn from spatial theory? Further reading: Sociology of space. The sociology of space is a sub-discipline of sociology that examines the social and material constitution of spaces.
It is concerned with understanding the social practices, institutional forces, and material complexity of how humans and spaces interact. The sociology of space is an inter-disciplinary area of study, drawing on various theoretical traditions including Marxism, postcolonialism, and Science and Technology Studies, and overlaps with various academic disciplines such as geography and architecture. Definition of space[edit] Space is one of most important concepts within the disciplines of social science as it is fundamental to our understanding of geography.
The term "space" has been defined variously by scholars: In general terms,the Oxford English Dictionary defines space in two ways; 1. In short, "space" is the social space in which we live and create relationship with other people, societies and surroundings.