CONVEGNO: "SPACE, CULTURE, POWER"
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
10-11 APRIL 2001

CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2000

"Space, culture, power" - these three terms have become
"keywords" in the liturgies of most interpretative disciplines
over recent decades. Space and power define cultures; and yet
they often remain embedded, hidden elements of the cultural
topographies of social groupings. Spatial structures frequently
reflect the political dynamics of a social context while
recursively shaping and influencing those same political
processes. Like the much-contested notion of culture itself,
space and power are shifting categories, often inseparable
and almost impossibly broad, and yet perhaps undeniably relevant
to the interpretation of social contexts.

Anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, sociologists,
geographers, architects, and social and cultural critics broadly
defined are invited to contribute papers which discuss, apply,
or interrogate the terms above in theoretically-informed ways.
Topics might includes (but are by no means limited to):

- discipline and governance, resistance and subversion;
- consumption and exchange;
- production (economic, social, cultural, architectural,
and so on);
- body and mind;
- gender relations;
- race and ethnicity;
- urban and rural landscapes;
- language and representations;
- sacred spaces;
- change and mobility (social, physical);
- archaeologies and technologies;
- communities, place, and identity.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We invite 300-400 word abstracts for the conference. Please
include a cover sheet providing your name, institutional
affiliation, address, phone number and email address.
Submissions may be posted or emailed - email submissions are
preferred.

Email submissions: pwk20@cus.cam.ac.uk

Postal submission: Dr Phil Withington
Lecturer in Cultural History
Old Brewery
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 2UB
(email: p.j.withington@abdn.ac.uk)