LSPRG
The Landscape Space Place Research Group

Forming Ruins: an interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop

 
Date(s)
Wednesday 2nd July 2014 (09:00-17:30)
Contact
All are welcome to attend this free event, although places are limited. If you wish to attend, please email by Wednesday 18th June: forming.ruins@nottingham.ac.uk
Description
Forming Ruins Workshop

Forming Ruins Workshop

Ruins are multivalent; the term itself can be used to indicate both a process and an object. Ruins are also a palimpsest onto which many, often differing, interpretations and understandings can be projected. This interdisciplinary workshop explores the different forms ruins can take, and the way these formations are realised and written as ruins are explored as both material ‘things’ and intangible process. It is concerned with when, where, by and for whom, ruins are formed and how this formation relates to social, political and cultural forces. It aims to use the ambiguity of ruins to enrich the enquiry into their meaning, asking how ruins can be read productively and what might be the significance and implications of the recent academic interest surrounding them.

This workshop sought to offer postgraduate students an opportunity to present related work at any stage of their research within a friendly, supportive and stimulating environment. Papers were followed by a keynote speech from Amy Concannon, assistant curator of Ruin Lust at the Tate Britain (4th March - 18th May 2014).

Organised by Alice Insley, Philip Jones, Xiaofan Xu, and Emma Zimmerman.

Funded by the AHRC Landscape & Environment Programme and the School of English.

More details can be found in the links below.

Download the Call for Papers.

Download the event Poster and Programme.

Centre for Regional Literature and Culture

Trent Building
University of Nottingham
University Park

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5910
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5924
email: crlc@nottingham.ac.uk