Emotional Geographies Conference, UniSA, Adelaide, Australia

Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies

April 6-8, 2010, The University of South Australia, Adelaide

Hosted by the Hawke Research Institute and the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre.

Invited Speakers:

Sara Ahmed (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Jennifer Biddle (UNSW)
Stephanie Hemelry Donald (University of Sydney)
Irene Watson (University of South Australia)
Sophie Watson (Open University)

Foci:

• Embodiment and emotions;
• Dynamics of affect;
• Affective attachment and the other-than-human
• Emotional labour and management;
• Affective spaces and the transnational;
• Migration, postcolonialism and emotions;
• Indigenous knowledges and emotion;
• Emotional architectures and landscapes of emotion;
• Affect, sense, sensation;
• Emotional publics and passionate politics;
• Semiotics and poetics of affect/emotion;
• Theories of affect, emotions, feelings;
• Affect and tourism;
• Queer spaces of affect;
• Emotion and political reform.

For registration, program and travel details see:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/emotionalgeographies/default.asp