RGS/IBG Annual Conference, 31 Aug - 2 Sept 2011, London UK

Session Proposal: Art, Science and Geographical Imaginaries

Sponsored by Historical Geography Research Group.
Convenors: Mrill Ingram, University of Arizona; Libby Straughan, Harriet Hawkins, Aberystwyth University.
 

The tragedy of modern institutional compartmentalization has been its dissolution of the epistemological linkages between the arts (and broader humanities) and the natural sciences. Yet, however disparate their imaginaries, science and art have shared histories that inaugurate many key geographical modes of enquiry. Geographical knowledges and practices today retain a lively sense of the connectedness of the arts and sciences, characterized by negotiation, mutual learning and symbiosis, and explorations of relational difference. In the context of thinking about the geographical imagination, this session poses broad questions about the discipline’s historic and ongoing relationships with art and science, their consequences for our ways of knowing and imagining the world, and for our understandings of the discipline and practice of geography.

We invite papers, and other forms of contribution for this session, from geographers and artists, but also from a spectrum of interested parties including, but not limited to, historians of science and theorists of art and visual culture.

Please send abstracts/ expressions of interest to Mrill Ingram on mrilli@email.arizona.edu, by Friday 11th February.

When submitting proposals please include the following information: 1) name; 2) institutional affiliation; 3) contact e-mail; 4) title of proposed paper; 5) abstract (no more than 250 words); and 6) any technical requirements (e.g. video, data projector, sound).

More details are on the proposal website.