CFP: Affective Landscapes

From: Neil Campbell <[email protected]>

Call for Papers: Affective Landscapes
May 25th / 26th 2012,
University of Derby, UK
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

-       Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas Austin, author of Ordinary
Affects (2007) and A Space on the Side of the Road (1996)

and

-       Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, author of Ordinary Lives.
Studies in the Everyday (2011) and Everyday Life and Cultural Theory (2002)

 This conference seeks exciting disciplinary and transdisciplinary
proposals from scholars working in fields such as cultural studies,
literary studies, cultural politics/history, creative writing, film and
media studies, Area Studies, photography, fine art, interested in examining
the different ways in which human beings respond and relate to, as well as
debate and interact with landscape.
 In 2009, the one-day symposium 'Land and Identity', held at the University
of Derby, brought together a diverse body of academics to discuss themes
and intersections across multiple areas of research interest.  This
follow-up event, hosted by the Identity, Conflict and Representation
Research Centre at the University of Derby in collaboration with the Centre
for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth, aims to develop
inter-disciplinary debates around the idea of 'Affective Landscapes'. The
conference has been inspired by the work of theorists whose work examines
points of intersection between ordinary life and extraordinary encounters
and exchanges with the world around us. It asks how do we 'feel', 'sense',
'know', 'cherish', 'memorise', 'imagine', 'dream', 'desire', or even 'fear'
landscapes? How do its 'intensities' register, flow and circulate? What
forms do we use to articulate, debate and record these affects?
 The Conference will include a related film screening and panel discussion
to take place at the QUAD Arts Centre in Derby.
 We are particularly interested in proposals examining the following:


-       psychogeography

-       critical regionalism

-       cultural politics on identity and landscape

-       national identity

-       suburbia

-       edgelands

-       the rural / urban

-       responses to landscape by creative practitioners (writers /
photographers / artists / filmmakers)

-       phenomenology

-       the body in landscape

-       Ecocriticism

-       landscapes of trauma and memory

-       theories of affect and landscape

 Please send proposals of not more than 250 words by 16 December 2011 to
Dr. Christine Berberich at [email protected]<mailto:
[email protected]>


Further details about the conference, the venue, travel, accommodation,
registration etc can be found at the website:
http://www.derby.ac.uk/affectivelandscapes




Neil Campbell
Professor of American Studies
Faculty Research Manager in Arts, Design and Technology,
University of Derby
Kedleston Road
Derby
DE22 1GB
United Kingdom

Tel:  01332 591481
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>