LANDSCAPE SURGERY
AUTUMN TERM, 2022-23
Landscape Surgery is a fortnightly meeting of graduate students, staff, visitors and guests of the Social, Cultural and Historical Geography (SCHG) research group. The convenors are Aya Nassar and Philip Crang.
Unless otherwise stated, meetings run from 3-5pm on alternate Tuesdays in Room 1-03, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RF. (Online participation on MS Teams may be arranged where in person attendance is impossible.)
Tuesday 4th October: Introductions by ‘surgeons’ old and new; and discussion of Sasha Engelmann’s AHRC Fellowship ‘Advancing feminist and creative methods for sensing air and atmosphere’.
Thursday 6th October, 1-2pm, Room 136 Queens Building: (joint seminar with GDSJ research group): Francisco Klauser, Université de Neuchâtel, ‘Spatialities of surveillance: Kandinsky, Foucault and the drone’.
Tuesday 18th October: Sage Brice (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Durham), creative workshop on ‘Viral ecologies: COVID-19 and the transindividuation of identity’.
Tuesday 1st November: Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi, Katherine Griffiths and Beth Williamson, panel-led discussion on ‘Archives, participation, digitisation’.
Tuesday 15th November: Kirsten Greer (Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies, Nipissing University), Caroline Cornish, Christina Hourigan, Innes Keighren and Michelle Payne: Author Meets Surgeons, ‘Red Coats and Wild Birds’ (2020, University of North Carolina Press).
Tuesday 29th November: The ‘Think Deep’ project team (Eva Barbarossa, Wayne Chambliss, Harriet Hawkins, Una Helle, William Jamieson, Flora Parrott), panel-led discussion on ‘Practice and research: the arts and beyond?’
Tuesday 13th December: The ‘OHEM’ project team (Barbara Brayshay, Toby Butler, Chris Church, Felix Driver, Jeremy Iles, Oli Mould) leading discussion of AHRC project on ‘An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK, 1970 – 2020’
Previous Programme
LANDSCAPE SURGERY meets on Tuesdays 2:00 – 4:00pm, with some exceptions (see below)
In 2021-2022, Landscape Surgery will take place online. Details on how to join LS seminars will be circulated via email two weeks before each session by Sasha Engelmann. If you wish to join a specific seminar please write to: sasha.engelmann@rhul.ac.uk
3rd May – ‘Machines in Flames: a screening and discussion with Andrew Culp and Thomas Dekeyser’ (4-6pm)
17th May – ‘Intimate Evictabilities and Home (Un)making in Urban Sri Lanka’: a seminar with Asha Abeyasekera (RHUL).
31st May – Year 1 PhD Presentations
Jasmine Joanes
Viveca Mellegard
14th June – Year 1 PhD Presentations **To occur in person (Senate House Room 102) and online**
Eva Barbarossa
Wayne Chambliss
Indira Lemouchi
Beth Williamson
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