Narrating Space And Place: Meeting Across Disciplinary Boundaries

When?

Thursday 7 April 2005, 09:30 to 16:30

Where?

Trinity College, Oxford

Open to:

Staff, Public, Students

Speaker:

Prof Wesley Kort (Duke University) and Dr Judy Giles (York St John College)

This informal one-day, inter-disciplinary colloquium, supported by the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (Surrey) and the Centre for Travel Writing (Nottingham Trent), will focus on the differing ways in which observers construct space and place in different contexts and at different times. This year the colloquium will be led by Prof Wesley Kort (Duke University), who will develop themes from his recent book, Place and Space in Modern Fiction (Univ Press of Florida, 2004) and Dr Judy Giles, who co-edited Writing Englishness 1900-1950 (Routledge, 1995).

As in previous years we (J. Eade, Carl Thompson and Jonathan Skinner) invite papers which explore this broad theme from such disciplines as English literature, history, geography, social anthropology, sociology, cultural studies. The spaces and places can range from territories in which people live, to imaginary places existing in people's minds.