[ecrea] Call for Abstracts - SPACE, IDENTITIES AND MEMORY, Birkbeck Institutes Graduate Conference

/Birkbeck Institutes of Social Research and the Humanities Graduate
Conference____/


    CALL FOR PAPERS____


    *SPACE, IDENTITIES AND MEMORY: CALL FOR PAPERS**____*


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    Deadline for submission of abstracts:***11/03/2016**.**____*

*Contact: ***(bihbisrconference /at/ gmail.com)*
<mailto:(bihbisrconference /at/ gmail.com)>**____*


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We invite postgraduate researchers, academics, activists, artists, and
practitioners from across disciplines to contribute to the Birkbeck
Institutes’ (BIH/BISR) annual two day conference held from the 13^th to
the 14^th May 2016.____

This year’s conference theme seeks to examine the interplay between
identity, space and memory, exploring the ways in which identities may
be created, formed and informed by spatial and temporal contexts. In
particular, we seek to examine to what extent identities are performed
in response to political, social and cultural pressures, including
historical circumstances leading to the construction of acceptable and
unacceptable identities.____

The conference aims to capture the complex overlaying of identities in
time and space, and the agency of individuals and communities as they
address their own complex understandings of the temporality of identity.
Conversely, we hope the conference will highlight how space and time are
influenced and shaped by everyday life, sociabilities, mobilisations and
processes of subjectivation. In particular we are seeking papers that
engage with topics such as:____

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·The built environment: how are housing, architecture, urbanity and
concepts of public and private space harnessed in the self-fashioning of
individual and communal identity?____

·Gender, sexuality and race, the politics of becoming and the
deterritorialisation of the body;____

·’Home’, domesticity and concepts of solitude and isolation across time
and space;____

·Spaces of dissent and resistance: how is memory imbricated in public
spaces as sites of encounters, direct action and creative practices?____

·Displacements and borders: constructing or disassembling boundaries
from local to global;____

·Explorations in the use of maps, social cartography and critical
geography;____

·Exclusion and inclusion in institutional spaces: how have
institutionalised spaces cemented or challenged contemporary and past
perspectives on identity?____

·Narrating the past: memorialisation, contestation and re-enactment____

·Innovative methods and approaches in the investigation of the
intersections between space, identity and memory____

Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Andy Merrifield. The conference
will conclude with a round table bringing together activists,
practitioners and academics.____

This is an interdisciplinary conference, designed to foster creative
thinking and new research agendas. To this end, we encourage papers from
a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds that explore the
interconnections of space, identity and memory.____

We are particularly interested in receiving contributions from artists
and practitioners in education, the heritage sector or related fields to
participate in this interdisciplinary conference.____


      *Proposals**____*

We warmly welcome abstracts for 20-minute panel papers. Abstracts should
be between 200-300 words in length. Please include a short biography
with your submission.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is
the*11/03/2016*. Authors will be notified regarding the acceptance of
their paper after submissions have been reviewed and no later
than*31/03/2016*.____


      *Contact Details**____*

Please send enquiries and proposals to Beth Hodgett, Calum Wright, Eva
Lauenstein & Moniza Rizzini at:____

*(bihbisrconference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(bihbisrconference /at/ gmail.com)>*____

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