[Discussion] EXPLORATIONS IN AFFECT: PRIVATE LIFE, MEMORY & THE SENSES

[gonul@bilkent.edu.tr]

Call for papers: Session at the Association of American Geographers 
conference 
March 14-19, 2004, Philadelphia 

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EXPLORATIONS IN AFFECT: 
PRIVATE LIFE, MEMORY & THE SENSES 
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We wish to connect up with work in geography and elsewhere that explores the 
links between affects and spatialities. The session will thus seek to 
capitalise on recent interest in the notion of affect, furthering 
understandings of the links between affect, experience and place. To this 
end, this session will include geographies that explore ideas of intimacy, 
emotions, the role of private life, memory and the senses in the 
construction of patterns or networks of interaction with places and/or 
objects. It seeks to further the connections between life and place by 
considering the multifarious ways that objects and practices foster 
explorations in geographical thinking, experiences of place, and spatial 
imaginations. 

The definition of 'affect' that we are working with is not limited to the 
psychoanalytic. It includes work in areas such as Deleuzian philosophy, 
cultural studies, aesthetic theory, gender studies, as well as 
methodological explorations of affect. 

Alphonso Lingis, Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, 
author of works such as The Imperative and Abuses, and translator of 
numerous works including Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, will be giving a paper 
in this session. 

We hope for interest from people in the areas of: 

Therapeutic spaces; 
The place(s) of objecthood and memory; 
The practices of everyday life; 
Phenomenology of place; 
Sensuous geographies; 
Emotional geographies; 
Psychoanalysis, memory and place; 
Consumption and corporeality 
Intimacy, sexuality; 
Sonority; Rhythmanalysis; 
Non-visual geographies 
Visual geographies 

For further information and expressions of interest, email us at the 
addresses below. Abstracts of 200 words to be sent by September 15th, 2003 
(N.B.: conference registration must take place by end of August).