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Geographical Imagination: Interpretations of Nature, Art and Politics

Conference CFPs Posted on 26 Jun, 2014 20:30:40


Geographical Imagination:
Interpretations of Nature, Art and Politics
15 – 19 June 2015

TALLINN & TARTU, ESTONIA

The Nordic Geographers Meeting is a biennial meeting of originally Nordic geographers that has grown into a considerable international event and for its 6th meeting expand its geography to include Estonia. Previous meetings were held in Lund, Sweden (2005); Bergen, Norway (2007); Turku, Finland (2009); Roskilde, Denmark (2011), and Reykjavík, Iceland (2013).The meeting will thus be held in Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia on
 15 – 19 June 2015. It is jointly organised by the Estonian Geographical Society, Tallinn Univeristy, University of Tartu, and Estonian University of Life Sciences.

Estonian Geographical Society in cooperation with Estonian universities invites session proposals for the 6th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia on 
15 – 19 June 2015 on the theme “Geographical Imagination: Interpretations of Nature, Art and Politics“. Both human and physical geographers are encouraged to participate under this broad heading but the organisers aim at highlighting the connections between nature (climate) and imagination, culture contacts between East and West (across and beyond the Baltic to the Far East, the Americas and Oceania) including geographical explorations and the issues of interpretation and politics (including being lost or found in translation).

Conference information here.

http://www.tlu.ee/en/ngm2015



Will Self: has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?

Memory & Heritage Posted on 26 Jun, 2014 20:27:07

Interesting article by Will Self on English Heritage and the newly opened Stonehenge visitor centre.

The summer solstice, King Arthur, the Holy Grail … Stonehenge is supposed to be a site of myths and mystery. But with timed tickets and a £27m visitor centre, does it herald a rampant commercialisation of our heritage?…

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/21/from-heritage-to-heretics-stonehenge-making-history



New book: International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power

Film, Space & Place Posted on 26 Jun, 2014 20:23:09


New book: International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power, Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds

International Politics and Film
introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes – borders, the state of exception, homeland and distant others – the territorial and imaginative dimensions of international affairs in particular are highlighted. But this volume also makes clear that international politics is not just something ‘out there’; film helps us better understand how it is also part of everyday life within the state – affecting individuals and communities in different ways depending on axes of difference such as gender, race, class, age, and ethnicity.

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16971-4/international-politics-and-film