[Commlist] CFP: Imagined Geographies Symposium 2/3rd October 2024 UEA

*CFP: Imagined Geographies: From Past to Future*

The New Area Studies Research Centre <https://newareastudiesuea.com/>, 
the East Centre <https://www.eastcentre-uea.org/> and the School of 
Global Development 
<https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/school-of-global-development> at the 
University of East Anglia are calling for papers between 5000-8000 words 
to be presented at a symposium on 2nd and 3rd October 2024 on the topic 
of *Imagined Geographies: from Past to Future*.

It will take place at UEA, Norwich, UK, in person and online, and will 
address the topic from a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary 
perspective.

We plan to publish selected papers from the symposium in a special 
edition of New Area Studies <https://newareastudies.com/>.

‘Imagined Geographies’ may include but are not limited to:

  * attachment to place
  * identity
  * the perceptions of homeland imagined or real
  * the idea of country, nation, borders, fronts, zones or edge lands
  * and liminal places

Papers and presentations may address, but are not limited to:

  * colonisation/decolonisation
  * the geographies of marginalisation
  * narratives and local voice, indigeneity, agency, the post-colonial
  * the intersection of colonial to contemporary knowledge
  * knowledge-making, production, and professional ignorance

We are pleased to consider proposals from any disciplinary perspective: 
Cultural, Anthropological, Geographical, Literary, Historical, Political 
Science/International Relations, Sociological, Philosophical, etc.

We particularly welcome original, cross-disciplinary topics and 
approaches, showcasing innovation, evolving, or new methodologies.

The keynote speaker at our event will be*Professor Edith W. Clowes* 
<https://slavic.as.virginia.edu/people/edith-w-clowes>, Brown-Forman 
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of 
Virginia. Her forthcoming book on /Shredding the Map: Imagined 
Geographies of Revolutionary Russia/ 
<https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Shredding-the-Map> speaks 
directly to issues of place consciousness and place-based identity.

Enquiries and proposals for papers (no more than 250 words) should be 
addressed to Professor Susan Hodgett (S.Hodgett /at/ uea.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(s.hodgett /at/ uea.ac.uk)?> by *_1st June 2024_*.

There is no fee for the symposium, online or in person.


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