Royal Geographical Society, London
Only just back from Cologne and about to head off for another conference. I haven’t really had chance to reflect much on the trip since returning, although I rather wish I had presented something (anything). As it turned out, at one session the speakers nearly didn’t show, for a session on Deleuze & Ethnography, and I was half-ready to give an impromptu talk with Joe…
On Tuesday I shall be travelling to Manchester for the Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) annual international conference; this year the theme is ‘Geography, Knowledge and Society’. The online programme looks great and I’m particularly excited that one whole day is devoted to ‘Art and Geographical Knowledge’.
Art and Geographical Knowledge explores the relationship between geography and art
A look at recent publications, conference programs and exhibition titles indicates the growing scope of the inter-relationship between art and geography. As the works in the exhibition and under discussion in the papers makes clear, this relationship between geography and artistic practice has a long history and takes a range of forms as boundaries between geographers, artists and curators blur. Bringing together critics, collaborators, creators and curators the aim is to explore the scope, methods and potential of art as a form of geographical knowledge.
It’ll be a good chance to meet geographers (and artists, or anybody else for that matter) who are working in a similar area to myself. Other potential highlights include a paper by Sarah Whatmore, Andrew Barry and Bruno Latour, as well as a session on ‘Urban Imaginaries’. I shan’t be speaking at this event either but I do hope to be this time next year!
[The photo was taken earlier on in the year, when I visited the RGS for the inaugural Doreen Massey lecture]
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