9.30am
Registration and coffee
10.00am – 10.40am: Keynote Speech
Rachel Lichtenstein: Contemporary British Women Exploring, Writing and Researching Place
Based on three decades of experience as ‘one of the few prominent female figures operating within the fuzzily defined field of contemporary psychogeography’ (The Guardian), Dr Rachel Lichtenstein will give an illustrated talk on her own research and unique multi-media creative practice, alongside celebrating the work of other female place writers and discussing how the field is changing for women today.
10.45am – 11.45am: Session One
Women Walking
Anna Chilvers (chair)
Julia Bennett (Chester) – Lockdown Scrapbook
Mary Pearson (Plymouth) – Mapping by Walking
Sonia Overall (Canterbury) – Boxed Walking Festival
12.00pm – 1.00pm: Session Two
The Spirit of Place
Jess Edwards (chair)
Joe Fenn – In Place of Worship
Rachel Andrews (NUI Galway) – Recovering: Mapping the Spatial Presence of Ghosts at an Unmarked Burial Site in Co. Cork
Sharron Kraus – Real and Imagined Places
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Three film presentations running will be shown during the lunch break – details below
2.00pm – 3.15pm: Session Three
Words, Water and Belonging
Sarah Jasmon (chair)
Sarah Butler (MMU) – Place and Prepositions
JLM Morton – Wool and Water: Power and Place
Sarah Jane Butler – Writing Away from the Self
Jodie Matthews (Huddersfield) – A Fluid Place
3.45pm – 5.00pm: Session Four
Place and Community
Sarah Butler (chair)
Jenna Ashton (Manchester) – Our Green and Pleasant Land
Annie Lord (MMU) – The Neighbouring Orchard
Claire Boardman (York) – Communities within Communities
Elaine Speight (UCLAN) – FEED: A Public Baby Feeding Chair
Films (will be shown at lunch time in the main hall)
R M Francis – The Chain Coral Chorus: a geopoetics filmpoem
Nirmal Puwar/Adele Reed – In Memoriam: Tree Felling at the Plaza
Mark Goodwin – 3 film poems: Earth Acceleration, Situation and Moor
To book your place for Day One of the symposium, click here
5.30pm – 7.30pm
The event space and bar at the IABF will be open for relaxed conversation and networking
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