Emotional Geographies conference
The Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies
Tuesday 6 April - Thursday 8 April 2010
Hawke Building, UniSA City West campus, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide
Jointly presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Hawke Research Institute
Invited Speakers include:
- Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
- Jennifer Biddle (UNSW)
- Pal Ahluwalia (University of South Australia)
- Michael Dutton (Griffith University & Goldsmiths College)
- Stephanie Hemelry Donald (University of Sydney)
- Irene Watson (University of South Australia)
- Sophie Watson (Open University)
Call for papers - now closed
Enquiries: CPCSGlobalisation@unisa.edu.au
We invite papers that interrogate emotion, society and space from diverse disciplinary and multidisciplinary backgrounds. We are interested in specific case studies as well as theoretical examinations of the nature of connections among these terms. The conference will be an exciting place to think about new ways of studying the natures, cultures and histories of emotional life. We welcome individual papers as well as panel proposals. We are happy to receive papers that engage in experimental as well as traditional formats.
Possible topics include:
- Embodiment and emotions;
- Dynamics of affect;
- Affective attachment and the other-than-human
- Emotional labour and management;
- Affective spaces and the transnational;
- Migration, postcolonialism and emotions;
- Indigenous knowledges and emotion;
- Emotional architectures and landscapes of emotion;
- Affect, sense, sensation;
- Emotional publics and passionate politics;
- Semiotics and poetics of affect/emotion;
- Theories of affect, emotions, feelings;
- Affect and tourism;
- Queer spaces of affect;
- Emotion and political reform.
One special theme of the conference is Consuming and Producing Affective Spaces of Taste. Focusing on the relations of production and consumption we want to examine how spaces of tastes are being refigured within the cultural economics of transglobalisation. We are especially interested in specific studies of the changing geographies of food, tourism, and other material commodities, as well as more general theoretical investigations of the connections between production, consumption, emotions and space.
The conference organizers welcome proposals for further special themes.
Enquiries: CPCSGlobalisation@unisa.edu.au
The venue
The University of South Australia is an innovative institution with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary and collaborative research with industry. It is located in Adelaide; a vibrant cultural capital surrounded by four of Australia's premier wine growing regions. With close proximity to the outback and in the driest state in Australia, Adelaide compels us to think about the emotions of land care, Indigenous culture, food production and transglobal economic and cultural connections.
Chair of the Organizing Committee
Professor Elspeth Probyn FAHA
Research SA Chair & Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies Co-Director The
Centre for Postcolonial and Globalisation Studies
The Hawke Institute
The University of South Australia
While the views presented by speakers within the Hawke Centre public
program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University
of South Australia or The Hawke Centre, they are presented in the interest
of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of:
strengthening our democracy - valuing our cultural diversity - and building
our future.