CALL FOR PAPERS
MAPPING, MEMORY AND THE CITY
University of Liverpool, 25-26 February 2010
School of Architecture / School of Politics and Communication Studies
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Iain Sinclair, writer and filmmaker.
Professor Robert C. Allen, Department of History, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Mark Neumann, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University
This conference invites a re-evaluation of the role of maps and
mapping practices in cultural explorations of urban space and
memory. We invite contributions from across a broad
interdisciplinary field, drawing together scholars and practitioners
working in film and cultural studies, geography, architecture, urban
studies, as well as those with interests in social and cultural
memory, archival practice and urban heritage. Of special interest
are contributions addressing the role of film and film
historiography in relation to place, landscape and urban memory.
While the trope of 'mapping' has remained a prominent fixture in the
lexicon of recent cultural criticism and debate, studies which seek
to go beyond exclusively metaphorical applications of maps and
mapping, and which engage more actively with cartographic practices
and resources (such as, for example, Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) technology) remain comparatively under-developed. This
conference will draw on current developments in this and other areas
of research and practice. Suggested themes include:
* GIS & digital mapping in urban cultural studies
* Psychogeography, memory and urban form
* Cinematic and moving image cartographies
* Landscape and memory in amateur film practice
* Maps, memory and pedagogic practice
* Maps, memory and archival practice
* Movie Mapping: film, place-marketing and urban tourism
* Urban geographies of film production
* Mapping audience and film reception
For enquiries and further details contact Dr Les Roberts
(<mailto:(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)) or
Dr Ryan Shand
(<mailto:(r.shand /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>(r.shand /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)). Please
submit proposals for papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to
<mailto:(cityinfilm /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>(cityinfilm /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) . We
also welcome proposals for panels and exhibits.
Final deadline for
proposals: 15 September 2009
Notification of
acceptance: October 2009
Date for
Registration:
December 2009
Final submission deadline for full papers: 7
January 2010
Information on booking and registration will be posted to the
website shortly:
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cityinfilm>www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cityinfilm
Selected papers and abstracts will be published in the conference programme.
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Dr Les Roberts
Research Associate
School of Architecture
University of Liverpool
Leverhulme Building
Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 3BX
T: +44 (0)151 794 2631
F: +44 (0)151 794 2605
<mailto:(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>(les.roberts /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cityinfilm/
