Projecting
the Regions:
People, Identity and Place
Thursday 17
September 2009
A day conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
How does visual image contribute to the shaping, making and redefining of regional identities? How have still and motion picture technologies and broadcasting influenced the perception and portrayal of twentieth and twenty-first century urban and rural place identities? Have the iconographies and symbolisms of literary and aesthetic representations been replicated, challenged, or diversified by changing approaches to how we make, take and communicate about the particularities of people and places? Who produces and consumes these ways of seeing regional lives and landscapes differently and what are the underlying motives and messages of such imagery? How may past ways of constructing and construing visual identities inform contemporary perspectives on attempts to invent or re-invent regional identities?
This one day multi-disciplinary conference invites any one with interests in any of the above questions to join us in what should be a stimulating and visually rich exploration of the relationships between place identities and still and moving image. If you have interests in landscape, photography, film, television and media history, cultural and social studies, the history of leisure and tourism, regional change, historical geography, or just a curiosity to find out more, we would like to hear from you.
Booking
form
The
event will take place in Geoffrey
Manton building, All Saints campus, Oxford Road, Manchester M15
6LL, within
easy walking distance of stations with rail network connections to
Manchester airport and all parts of the UK. For accommodation queries
please contact Craig Horner
Poster
Slots are still available and details
of proposed submissions and brief CVs should be sent to Heather
Norris Nicholson. Suggested guidelines on poster presentation
are available from the conference organisers. We encourage
you to consider presenting your work and ideas in this format.
Details of presentations will be published in early September.
Conference
organisers: Craig
Horner and Heather Norris Nicholson
Enquiries and bookings
to Craig Horner
This
event is hosted by the Manchester
Centre for Regional History; Manchester
European Research Institute and the North
West Film Archive
Key
words: regional
identities, visual representations, place, identities
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