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<b>SIEF April 2011 Call for Papers 'Engaging Space, Performing Place'</b>
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<td>SIEF conference - People make places: ways of feeling the
world - taking place Lisbon, 17-21 April 2011<br>
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Panel title: Engaging space, Performing place: 'making place' through
expressive practice (P222)<br>
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<p>In this panel we would like to explore how people engage with
space in
performative and other expressive practices. We want to focus on how,
in these practices, reflexive (sensory) experience is used to ‘make’
meaningful places, which can be imagined or real, public or private.<br>
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<p>We take as our starting point the notion that
expressive/performative
practices are embedded in and contingent upon socio-cultural context,
and that they are brought into being through, and are dependent on, the
engagement of individuals/groups with their physical and social
environment; in short, that they are em-placed and em-bodied
expressions of ‘being-in-the-world’ (Csordas, 1999).<br>
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<p>We would like to invite proposals for papers that reflect,
theoretically and/or empirically, on current notions of space and place
in a variety of disciplines - such as geographer Doreen Massey’s (2005)
perception of space as a ‘spatio-temporal event’ or anthropologists’
Tim Ingold's (2008) notion of place as a 'meshwork of paths'
‘occurring’ through the movement of people and other organisms through
space, or Paul Stoller’s work on embodiment and sensuous scholarship -,
and that relate this reflection on space and place to the practice of
expressive performance, stressing the relationship between bodies and
minds and the materiality and sensoriality of place.<br>
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<p>Convenors:
Maria Krom, PhD Researcher, CRIA-Center for the Research in
Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa<br>
Anthony McCann, Lecturer in Contemporary Folk Culture, University of
Ulster <br>
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Maria Krom, PhD Researcher, CRIA-Center for the Research in
Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Email: <a href="mailto:marjoke.krom@gmail.com">marjoke.krom@gmail.com</a><br>
Visit the website at <a
href="http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/panels.php5">http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/panels.php5</a>
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