1st Global Conference
Wednesday 14th September – Friday 16th September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.
Final Conference Programme
Wednesday 14th September
From 12.30
Conference Registration
13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Shilinka Smith & Shona Hill
14.00
Session 1.: Places of Dwelling
Chair: Matthew Melia
Homeward Bound: Mediating Place in Artists’ Journey
Jenny Fitzgibbon.
Crossing the Threshold: the domestic house/home as a site for contemporary Irish art installations.
Jane Humphries
Exploring Space, Creating Place: depictions of Dublin in the art of Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
Kathryn Milligan
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 2a: Experiencing Space as it becomes Place
Chair: Jane Humphries
Ruins of the British Country House: Sutton Scarsdale and the reinterpretation of national identity
Miriam Cady
Painting Facades: A Strategy to becoming a ‘place in the map’
Veronica Conte
The Role of Place as a Potential Determinant for the Experience of Presence in Virtual Environments
Thierry Plante
Session 2b: Using Space
Chair: Ann Holt
‘See it all small’ – Collective Place and Space in Public Spatial Models
Yael Padan
Music-halls and Mirrors – Walter Sickert and Pictorial Space c. 1890
William Rough
Making Space Visible: Walking on Walls
Larraine Nicholas
17.30
Notices and Announcements
17.40
Wine Reception
Thursday 15th September 2011
09.00
Session 3: Realising Places
Chair: Shona Hill
Door and other Passages: a semiotics of Place
Dalila Honorato
Nomadism and Coffeehouses: the Effects of Space and Place on Ottoman Storytellers
Defne Cizakca
Imagining the Space and Place of the Imaginary
Amir Ameri
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 4a: Re-presenting Spaces and Places
Chair: Kenneth Poulsen
Contested Burial Space: Kuala Lumpar Chinese Cemetery
Yat Ming Loo
The Production of Place in East Asian Spaces
Simone Shu-Yeng Chung
Session 4b: Power and Place
Chair: Mee Kam Ng
Politics of Dress: An analysis of critical issues in dress semiotics with special reference to the king’s dress during 16-17th century Sri Lanka
Nimal De Silva & Priyanka Medagedara Karunaratne
Political power and Ideas on Space and Place Embodied in Albanian Painting
Fjoralba Satka & Aleksander Moisiu
From Bar to Far Perveza: Political Geography and Geographical Poetry in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements
Adam Goldwyn
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 5a: Structuring Space
Chair: Sarah Castille
Theoretical Perspectives on Space and Place: construction of meaning in Archaeology
Gloria Everson
Monastery – a synthesis of Triad Space- territory -place
Violeta Puscasu
Monastic Space and Identity in Southern Languedoc
Taylor Zaneri
Session 5b: Planning Space and Place
Chair: Thierry Plante
Delayed Amendment of an Outdated town Planning Ordinance: evolving politics of place governance in Hong Kong
Mee Kam Ng
The Role of Alternative Interpretations and Practices in the Construction of Public Space
Silvano A. De la Liata
Giving up on Great Plans? Transformation of representations of space in city plans
Zhanna Kravchenko and Lisa Kings
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 6: Exploring Spaces
Chair: Simone Shu-Yeng Chung
Shifting Geo/Graphies: between production and reception of imagined spaces
Antje Ziethen
Mandalising the American Landscape: The construction of Buddhist spaces through English Verse
Enrique Galvan-Alvarez
The political subject in the Neo-Medieval Space-Time: conceptualising 21st century politics through the 12th century romance
Sarah Castille
17.30
Session Ends
Friday 16th September 2011
09.00
Session 7: Title: Space and Identity
Chair: Harris Breslow
Quake, Place and the End of the English: The New Zealand Christchurch Cathedral as symbolic of Christchurch Identity
Duncan Harding
Redefinition of Identity of Host Space according to translation models in Space: Case study: Tehranto (Canada) and Tehran (Iran).
Razieh Rezazadeh, Mostafa Abbaszadegan & Maryam Mohammadi
‘Tehran’ City of Nonspaces
Majid Mansoor Rezaee & Rezaei Rad Hadi
10.30
Coffee
11.00
Session 8a: Political Space
Chair: Duncan Harding
Secular Spaces and Geopolitical Theologies: the sanctification of the Golan Heights in Israel’s Geopolitical Discourse.
Moriel Ram
The Changing Space of the Arab Subject: vision perspective and flow in the Arab urban environment.
Harris Breslow
Arabs and Jews Theatrical Co-Performance as Third Space
Naphtaly Shem-Tov
Session 8b:Illustrating Space
Chair: Kathryn Milligan
The Sensation of Place: translating the experiential sensation of a space into a work of art.
Ann Holt
I don’t know what I’m looking for but I’ll know it when I see it.
Andrew Sneddon
Figure and Field: Space, Place and the Situation of Visual Artists
Duncan McKay
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Session 9a: Title: Determining Space
Chair: Razieh Rezazadeh
Role of Food Activities in Shaping Urban Space: from colonisation to globalisation a case of Nigeria
Timothy Seyi Odeyale, Behzad Dodagar, Nick Temple & Carl O’Coill
Space and the Dynamics of identity contests in Benue State, Nigeria
Comfort Erima Ugbem
Finding Neverland: nomadic space-time and ethnic minorities
Frida Buhre
Session 9b: Theorising Space and Place
Chair: Jenny Fitzgibbon
Earth, Land and Economics: a Heideggerian Account of space in Economics
Todd S. Mei
Space for Difference: A Response to Doreen Massey’s critique of Derridean deconstruction
Astrid Nordin
15.30
Coffee
16.00
Session 10. Fictional Space
Chair: Shilinka Smith
Space, Place and Reconstruction in British Post War Science Fiction
Matthew Melia
Sky-high Sci-fi: Vertical urbanism in Science Fiction literature
Lucy Hewitt
The Convent as Inquisition – Anti-Catholic Space in English Gothic Fiction
Kenneth Poulsen
17.30
Development Meeting and Closing Remarks
18.00
Conference Ends
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