We are pleased to announce the running order for Space Matters.
The venue for this conference is A7, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester.
Registration for this conference is Free and is now open. Just email spacemattersconf at gmail dot com with your name, affiliation and contact email.
09:00 | Registration at Samuel Alexander A7 |
09:30 Introduction | Introductory Speech Dr. Leif Jerram, University of Manchester |
10:00 Keynote | “Looking and Listening: Stonehenge and an ecological approach to the study of space.” Dr. Rupert Till, University of Huddersfield |
11:00 | Tea/ Coffee Break |
11:15 Session One | “Audible Spaces or how we need to stop worrying and learn to love our limitations.” |
Maarten Walraven, University of Manchester | |
Interpreting Space | |
“The view from Todgers and the 'good spirit': two perspectives on city space in Dickins.” Ben Moore, University of Manchester | |
“Definitions of Place (Locus) and Space (Spatium) according to Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – 1109) and Peter Abelard (1079 – 1142): The Foundations of their Physics.” | |
Alisa Koonce, University of Cambridge | |
12:45 | Lunch |
14:00 Session Two | “Contesting Memories – Forging place and landscape in Irish Pilgrimage Sites.” |
Kieran McCarthy, University College Cork | |
Landscape Space | |
“Unfolding Criollo Identity : the organisation of architectural space around conversational devices in late seventeenth century Colonial Mexico.” | |
Giovanni Raneri, University of Manchester | |
“Clean, Cultured, Civilised: Space and human quality in Urban China.” | |
Karita Kan, University of Oxford | |
15:30 | Poster Session |
Tea/ Coffee Break | |
15:50 Session Three | “The Reconstruction of Space and Place in the photography of Gordon Matta Clark.” |
Helen Wainwright, University of Nottingham | |
Representations of Space | |
“Sovran Space(s): the contested territories of the photographic image, as captured from space.” Conohar Scott, Loughborough University | |
16:50 | Closing Comments |