I’m very happy to be able to announce the details of the RGS-IBG sessions I am co-organizing with Peter Adey (RHUL) and Damien Masson (Cergy-Pontoise) this year. We have 3 sessions in the programme, 2 sponsored by the HPGRG and the 3rd independent. We had a great response to the call we sent out and it looks like it will be a great set of papers, mixing geographers and non-geographers, UK-based academics but also international contributions also…
I’m also presenting in one of Gail Davies, Jamie Lorimer, and Steve Hinchliffe’s sessions on ‘Immunitary Geographies’ (speaking about intersubjectivity and the work of Roberto Esposito) so it’s going to be a busy conference for me this year!
Full details of each of our Ambiance/atmospheres sessions are below.
Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers (1)
Convenor(s): Paul Simpson (Keele University), Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London), Damien Masson (Cergy Pontoise University):
Chair(s): Paul Simpson (Keele University)
Sponsored by: History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group
- Ambiance and Atmospheres
Paul Simpson (Keele University), Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London) - Creating ambiance and atmosphere as an artist-geographer
Candice Boyd (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Cutting-through of the urban milieu
Nicolas Tixier (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble) - The Affective Atmospheres of Nationalism: the case of the London 2012 Olympic Games
Angharad Closs Stephens (Durham University) - The sounds of our listening: ambiances of voices and commons
Anja Kanngieser (Royal Holloway University of London)
Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers (2)
Convenor(s): Paul Simpson (Keele University), Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London), Damien Masson (Cergy Pontoise University):
Chair(s): Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Sponsored by: History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group
- Material events: art, activism and spatialities of affect
Michael Buser (University of the West of England) - Atmospheric Things
Derek McCormack (University of Oxford) - Motion capture, movement and apprehending atmospheres
James Ingham (University of Central Lancashire), Nigel Simpkins (University of Central Lancashire) - Atmospheres of progress in a data-based school
Matt Finn (Durham University) - Towards an ‘ambiance-grounded’ critique?
Damien Masson (Cergy Pontoise University), Rachel Thomas (CNRS, France)
Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers (3)
Convenor(s): Paul Simpson (Keele University), Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London), Damien Masson (Cergy Pontoise University):
Chair(s): Damien Masson (Cergy Pontoise University)
- Reimagining the Margins – Creative Practice and the Infrastructural Landscapes of the Lower Lea Valley
Rupert Griffiths (Royal Holloway University of London) - “The double-faced challenge of translating affective atmospheres”
Michele Lancione (UTS-CMOS, Australia) - Methodological considerations for evaluating affective atmospheres of mobile environments
Ilze Dziedataja (Manchester Metropolitan University), Steven Rhoden (Manchester Metropolitan University), Amanda Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University), Shobana Nair Partington (Manchester Metropolitan University) - ‘Shaped by familiarity’: Memory, Space, Materiality and Atmosphere at Imperial War Museum North.
Angela Loxham (Lancaster University) - Architectural atmospheres: the role of the senses in digital visualization practices
Monica Degen (Brunel University), Clare Melhuish (Open University), Gillian Rose (The Open University)
Paul Simpson Geography 