[ecrea] CFP - 'Mobilities, Literature, Culture' conference - Lancaster University - 21-22 April 2017

*<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lica/>MOBILITIES, LITERATURE, CULTURE:*

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*Inaugural Conference of Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and 
Culture*

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*21^st – 22^nd April 2017, Lancaster University, UK*

*Plenary speakers*

Marian Aguiar (English, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Kat Jungnickel (Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London)

*Film screening and Q&A*/with/ Director Andrew Kötting

*Roundtable on “New Directions in Mobilities Studies” featuring*

Nick Dunn (Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University), 
Ruth Livesey (English, Royal Holloway, University of London), Pete 
Merriman (Geography, Aberystwyth University)

*Call for papers:*

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This two-day conference provides a forum for scholars working at the 
intersection of literary and cultural studies and mobilities theories to 
explore the cultural representation of mobilities across geographical 
regions and historical periods. The conference offers a timely space in 
which to discuss the incisive new methodologies, frameworks, and 
theorizations that are shaping the dynamic and growing field of 
literary-mobility studies.

We invitepapers both from scholars who draw upon cultural geography 
and/or sociology to gain new insights into literary and cultural texts, 
and from researchers who make use of literary and cultural texts in 
their theorizing of space and movement. The conference will encompass a 
wide range of movements from the global and transnational to the local 
and the everyday, including journeys by foot, bicycle, motorcar, rail, 
air, and sea, at local, regional, national and transnational levels. 
Textual materials of all kinds – film, photography, digital media, and 
the visual arts, as well as fiction, poetry, and other literary forms – 
and projects engaging with non-western literatures and cultures are 
welcome. Uniting this diverse temporal, spatial and textual field, the 
conference retains a core focus on the fluid, reciprocal and often 
innovative relationship between mobility and culture.

Suggested topics might include but are not limited to:


  * mobility and globalization;
  * mobilities of (post)colonialism;
  * transnationality;
  * technologies of mobility;
  * spaces and sites of mobility;
  * embodied mobilities;
  * mobile networks;
  * gender and sexuality;
  * race and mobility;
  * the classed politics of mobility;
  * modes of transport, especially cycling.


Conference organisers Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon University), Bruce 
Bennett (Lancaster University), Charlotte Mathieson (University of 
Surrey) & Lynne Pearce (Lancaster University)

*invite abstracts of 350 words for 20-minute papers; please submit along 
with a short biographical note by 1^st December 2016 to 
**(mobilitiesconf /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(mobilitiesconf /at/ gmail.com)>***


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