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Emotional Geographies conference

Program


Day 1, Tuesday 6 April 2010
 

9.00–9.30 am Welcome to country by Kaurna Elder Lewis O'Brien
  Welcome to the conference by Prof Peter Høj, Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia
9.30–11.00 am Keynote speech
Elspeth Probyn, 'Swimming with tuna: introducing some emotional geographies in South Australia'

Keynote speech

Sara Ahmed, 'Happiness as an affective geography'
   
11.00–11.30 am Coffee/tea break
   
11.30 am – 1.00 pm Day 1 Session 1
Concurrent sessions
  Creative industries
  '"Ah, the serenity": emotional geographies of outer suburban creative industries', Christy Collis and Emma Felton
'Seasonality, affect and creativity: lessons from a creative topical city', Susan Luckman
'The emotional capital of Tianjin's cultural heritage', Maurizio Marinelli
'Elation and anxiety: the spectacle of the future in Shanghai's Expo 2010', Mark Harrison
   
  Love
  '"But my heart it's all Indian": gender and the affective fictions of globalisation', Tanya Ann Kennedy
'Constructing the homo sapiens amans: love as the basis of social life in Humberto Maturana's Biology of love', Sergio Holas Véliz
'You mean the world to me? Love, space and scale in Russian doll geography', Eleanor Wilkinson
   
  Mind and body
  'The drifting body: the role of affect and practice in the production of place', Cameron Duff
'Sleep, emotions and the embodied person', Yasmine Musharbash
   
  Landscapes/architecture
  'The path of most resistance: mapping the emotional landscapes of Resistance fighters in northeast Italy during World War 2', Sarah de Nardi
'Being there and loving it: tourism and affect at the Sydney Opera House', Naomi Stead
'Landscapes of an unforgettable past: WWII memorialisation in Poland', Danielle Drozdzewski
   
1.00–2.00 pm Lunch in Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building
   
2.00–3.30 pm Day 1 Session 2
Concurrent sessions
  Education/teaching
  'Passionate politics and affective spaces of becoming in education', Deborah Youdell
'Pedagogy, affect and responsibility at the periphery of schooling', Sam Sellar
'"This school was the hardest I've ever worked in": school principals, emotional labour and haecceity', Margaret Freund
'Mapping the emotional and embodied terrain of queer classroom research: constituting student, teacher, and researcher subjectivities in a high school health class', Kathleen Quinlivan
   
  Indigenous spaces
  'Affective attachment to land tested by fire', Janice Elder
'Dialects of racism: how the interface of emotions, authority and geography impacts on the delivery of human services for Aboriginal peoples', Heidi Nietz
'Beauty and the bush: environmentalism, tourism, and images of reconciliation', Debra Dudek
'An-other space: spatial concepts in Dirt music and Indigenous art', Britta Kuhlenbeck
   
  Medical emotion I
  'In the kingdom of the sick', Kay Ferres
'Empathy and the clinic: toward an understanding of emotional geographies in general practice', George RE Marshall
'A day at a modest Bangkok cosmetic surgery clinic', Meredith Jones
'Syringe sensation', Nicole Vitellone
   
  Panel: Border panic
  'Touching bodies, touching hearts: bodily boundaries and the limits of compassion', Genevieve Berrick
'"Emotional baggage": refugees and the movement of feeling', Anna Szorenyi
'Unlocking the emotional borders of home: managing publicity, privacy and intimacy', Andrew Gorman-Murray
'Sounds of home: listening and the emotional practices of place making', Gordon Waitt and Michelle Duffy
   
3.30–4.00 pm Coffee/tea break
   
4.00–5.30 pm Day 1 Session 3
Concurrent sessions
  Cities
  'Patinas of place: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City', Marsha Berry
'Spatial enjoyment in the central square of a Yucatec Maya town (Mexico)', Denise Fay Brown
'Taste, distaste, disgust and renewal', Maree Pardy
   
  Food/consumption
  'Conflicting emotions of the backpacking food tourist', Emily Falconer
'Singapore's rebirth: re-enchanting the bland in a culture of consumption', Chris Hudson
'"Gam yafa vegam offa! [in Hebrew] She is pretty and she bakes too": Jewish-Israeli migrant mothers' foodways in New Zealand – towards understanding senses and emotions', Hadas Ore
   
  Medical emotion II
  'One last breath: death and dying in life and living', Katrina Jaworski
'The affective landscapes of antidepressant use', Kim McLeod
'I'm fine as I am! ... I'm all right! There's nothing wrong with me', Kristina Bradford and Su Upton
   
  Panel: The emotional geographies of education
  'Getting emotional about "brain mobility"', Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey
'The emotional geographies of neo-liberal school reforms: spaces of refuge and containment', Karen Nairn and Jane Higgins
'Teachers' tears and the affective geography of the classroom', Megan Watkins

 

Day 2, Wednesday 7 April 2010
 

9.00–11.00 am Keynote speech
Irene Watson, 'Progress and the death wish of colonialism'

Keynote speech
Jennifer Biddle, 'Art under occupation'
   
11.00–11.30 am Coffee/tea break
   
11.30 am – 1.00 pm Day 2 Session 1
Concurrent sessions
  Gendered spaces
  'The affective politics of festivals', Lisa Slater, Gordon Waitt and Michelle Duffy
'Contested spaces: American abortion clinics', Lori Brown
'The point: surfing, geography and a sensual life of young men and masculinity on the Gold Coast, Australia', Clifton Evers
'Women, risk and resilience: the alchemy and cartography of affect', Angelique Edmonds
   
  Ethics, aesthetics and poetics
  'Awash in ideality: this is satisfactory', Dennis Leavens
'Glomping and the multicultural sublime', Paul Kingsbury
'Writing landscape/landscape writing', Linda Marie Walker
'Forgetting books', Dr Andrew Dearman
   
  Childhood and youth
  'Emotional capital? Barrier or enabler for physical activity and play in inner city children?' Christina Ergle and Robin Kearns
'Safety, pleasure and identity: reading the emotional qualities of space through the action of children', Rita Gomes Batista
'The race for space: youth subcultures and space', Clementine Hill
'Emo-culture in contemporary China and intra-East Asia cultural transnationalism', Fang Wang
   
  Panel: Sensualities and spaces of emotion
'Authentic Pontic dance: a bodily way of making absence present', Valerie Liddle
'Creating the right "vibe": exploring the utilisation of space at hip hop concerts in Adelaide', Dianne Rodger
'Sensual feasting: transforming emotions and spaces in Lihir, Papua New Guinea', Susan Hemer
'"Dancing for joy": exploring sensual links between emotion, movement and space in rural Papua New Guinea', Alison Dundon
   
1.00–2.00 pm Lunch in Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building
   
2.00–3.30 pm Day 2 Session 2
Concurrent sessions
  Emotional capitalism
  'Marketing subjectivity through the affective domains of media culture', Anne Begg
'Placing bets and paying one's dues: managers' attitudes to making music', Pearl Panickar
'Relaxation and the reaffirmation of a sense of self: the emotive role of leisure spaces for western development workers in PNG', Jack Aisbett
'The emotional geographies of the American religious right and their conservative Protestant base', Catherine Smith
   
  Sex and sexuality
  'Reconstructing "desire" in everyday spaces and practices: male sex workers in Puerto Vallarta (western Mexico)', Cristóbal Mendoza
'Emotive methodologies: reflections on the use of solicited diaries and self-directed photography in intimate geography research', Carey-Ann Morrison
'Tasteful feelings: the taste politics of emotional style as sexual style in The L word', Sarah Cefai
   
3.30–4.00 pm Coffee/tea break
   
4.00–5.30 pm Day 2 Session 3
Concurrent sessions
  Emotional labour
  'Embodiment of care, emotional labour and gender: the undervaluing of nurses' work in aged residential care', Valerie Adams
'Body, subjectivity, action and emotional labour: investigating the emotion experiences(s) of the music performer during performance', Andrew Geeves and Doris McIlwain
'Giving birth to the socially just teacher: an emotional labour', Helen Ovsienko and Marie Brennan
   
  Queer
  'Queer inhabitation in the spaces of neo-liberalism', Kyja Noack-Lundberg
'Desiring The circuit', Mary Lou Rasmussen and Vicki Crowley
'Hanging by a thread: the fine lines of emotional safety', Julia Horncastle
   
  Spaces of conflict
  '"The ground on which we live": emotional geographies of postcolonial belonging', Haydie Gooder
'Psychopathology and emotions at Cordoba's psychiatry (Argentina) in early twentieth century', Fernando Ferrari
'Righteous indignation online: China's angry/shit youth', Kaz Ross
   
6.00–8.00 pm Conference drinks with Yalumba at the Samstag Museum
Guest: Dr Cecil Camilleri, Manager, Sustainable Wine Programs, Yalumba Wine Company

 

Day 3, Thursday 8 April 2010
 

9.30–11.00 am Day 3 Session 1
Concurrent sessions
  Media
  'Enthusiasm, magazines and an event-based conception of the scene', Glen Fuller
'Emotion, sociality and documentary film', Belinda Smaill
'Films, friends and place: the emotional geographies of Australian rural cinema attendance', Karina Aveyard
'Shooting affect: emotion as documentary film form', Simon Wilmot
   
  Urban spaces
  'Keeping effective and affective dimensions of transport on the rails: passenger experiences of crowding in carriages and on platforms in the Australian rail industry', Lily Hirsch, Kirrilly Thompson and Mathew Thomas
'American masculinity in the context of grief', Jessica Merrick
'Hope as an emotional landscape', Peter Bishop and Alison Mackinnon
   
  Panel: Emotional geographies and histories of Tokyo
  'Negotiating the physical and emotional geographies of twenty-first century urban Japan in Tokyo sonata', Romit Dasgupta
'Street kids: Japanese popular culture fantasies of homelessness', Alisa Freedman
'Queer streets in Tokyo: counter-hegemonic memory and subjugated knowledge', Katsuhiko Suganuma
'Memories and memorials of protest in central Tokyo', Vera Mackie
'Mis-performing and misbehaving in Chikatetsu Hiroba (Underground Plaza) 1970', Peter Eckersall
   
11.00–11.30 am Coffee/tea break
   
11.30 am – 1.00 pm Day 3 Session 2
Concurrent sessions
  Human and non-human
  'Emotion, space, animality', Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach
'Intercorporeal and interpenetrative human–animal relations: technological mediation of the human–horse–bull network in the bullfight from horseback (rejoneo)', Kirrilly Thompson
'Whaling: affect and meaning in the context of an industrial museum', Janice Baker
   
  Transnational emotions/migration
  'Spaces of belonging amongst tertiary-educated migrants', Rosie Roberts
'Mapping Africa in Mile End: Injera and forgiveness', Jean Duruz
'Refugee support organisations in Britain and their construction of asylum seeker vulnerability', Sophia Rainbird
   
  Panel: Pleasure, travel, affect
  'Emotional places, emotional experiences: tourists' experiences at screen-tourism locations', Sangkyun Kim
'"He made me rondon soup": food, appetite, and carnal tourism in Costa Rica', Susan Frohlick
'Holiday "marriage": intricate relatedness and new heteronormativitities', Ana Dragojlovic
'At the junction of the aesthetic and erotic: towards an anthropology of pleasure', Tom Selwyn
   
  Panel: Media technologies and affect
  'Mobile emotions: the affects of network listening', Kate Crawford
'Technologies of sound and affect in domestic spaces', Jo Tacchi
'Mobile media and the affordance–affect relation', Ingrid Richardson
'Private grieving, informal memorials and appropriating public space', Gerry Bloustien
   
1.00–2.00 pm Lunch in Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building
   
2.00–3.30 pm Day 3 Session 3
Concurrent sessions
  Religion/spirituality
  'The ordering of emotions: religious ecstasy, gender and "race" in colonial India', Margaret Allen
'Making space for stillness: experiencing places of retreat in contemporary Britain', David Conradson
'Post-secular urban culture and sacred space', Peter Nynäs
'A meditation on virtuous spaces', Elaine Stratford
   
  Travel and tourism/self and place
  'The colonial gaze and its other: travel writing on India and England', Shvetal Vyas
'Sentient spaces, intimate encounters: emotional tensions between "hosts" and "guests" in Sydney's tourist/leisure/residential geographies', Fiona Allon
   
  Panel: Mediated feeling generating affect across distance
  'Emotion, performative affect and male stars in contemporary Hollywood', Hannah Hamad
'Mediatised affect: feeling across the small screen', Misha Kavka
'"Touching from a distance": affective geographies in distanced fandom', Scott Wilson
   
  Panel: A palpable absence: affect, space, story
  'Barrow and cart: keeping life, keeping love', Vicki Crowley and Lisa McDonald
'Affective pedagogy: art and the re-imagining of youth at risk', Anna Hickey-Moody
'Animal synonyms: fauna, creatures, beasts, wildlife and us', Julie Matthews
   
4.00–6.00 pm Keynote speech
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 'Consuming the revolution: humour, friendship and the shaming of politics in the work of Liu Dahong'

Keynote speech
Sophie Watson, 'Public affect effects: enacting in/civilities in public space'
   
6.00 pm – Concluding remarks by Prof Elspeth Probyn

 

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