Spaces of (Dis)location University of Glasgow
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Exploring how ideas of space and location -- whether physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary -- are evolving. Subjects include globalisation, localism, cultural and natural spaces, cultural disapora, immigration, spaces of performance and the space of the body. Conference 24-25th May 2012, in the College of Arts Graduate School, University of Glasgow.
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Time is the Locus of Art
Ryan Lewis, University of Dundee, uses readings of Bergsonian/Deleuzian philosophies of becoming/difference and with a view toward Kandinskian theories of abstraction, presents a conceptual account of art claiming that it is the temporal and qualitative nature of art which is the force of its indefinite and inexhaustible abstraction.
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The Black Press & Press Forms as Constitutive of Early African American Feminism
Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta, Canada, delivered a keynote address at the Spaces of (dis)Location conference. Professor Zackodnick studies many aspects of American Literature including African American literature, Asian American fiction and black feminisms.
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Understanding the Fourth Dimension
Vanja Malloy of the Courthauld Institute of Art, speaking on Understanding the Fourth Dimension: Physical and Imaginary Space in Avant-garde Art at the Spaces of (dis)Location conference organised by Philosophy postgraduates at the University of Glasgow May 2012.
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An Affirmation of Diversity and Transcultural Writing
Dr Bashabi Fraser, Edinburgh Napier University, delivered a keynote address at the Spaces of (dis)Location conference. Dr Fraser specialises in postcolonial literature and theory with a particular interest in diasporic themes.
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Road Tripping
Rebecca Birch, Loughborough University, proposes the car as a vessel for a dialogical and site-responsive artwork, in which the work is the act of ‘being with’ another in a shared encounter in space and time.
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Imaginary Space
Maryam Mirsepassi,University of Carleton (Ottawa, Canada), speaking on the metaphorical qualities of imaginary space which opens the door to our human understanding.