In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the journal, Space and Culture, this conferences welcomes contemporary challenges to the idea of place, along with new ideas, and with a focus on the relationship between individuals and communities to place and history. The purpose of the conference will be to further develop place as a responsive concept: a tool for understanding strategic sociocultural frames such as time-horizons, cycles, and imagined geography- determined political divisions. The conference will illuminate the dynamics of how places as landscapes, ecologies and cultural topologies facilitate or buffer change. There are growing public demands for, on the one hand, innovation in place-making and, on the other hand, stewardship of the environment. These concerns around places and environments are emerging as a nexus within shared preoccupations across a multicultural society, which includes a complex range of Indigenous, settler and diasporic communities and histories.
Dates: May 5, 6 &7, 2017
Locations: Latitude 53, CCIS 1-430, CCIS 1-440, T 1-83, T 1-90, T 1-91. T 1-93, IRS, T 1-105
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Will Straw (McGill),
Sha Xin Wei (Arizona),
Rob Shields (Alberta),
Leonie Sandercock (UBC).