Event: The Alchemical Landscape, Symposium II – 7th July

THE ALCHEMICAL LANDSCAPE, SYMPOSIUM II:

Screen Media, Occulture and the Geographic Turn

Girton College, University of Cambridge

7th July 2016.

An interdisciplinary symposium presented by the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group

Following the success of our first symposium in March 2015, we are pleased to announce The Alchemical Landscape II. This second event will focus on occultural visions of the landscape across film, television, video and associated media.

We will be presenting a programme featuring a wide range of excellent speakers: academics, writers, artists and film-makers. We will also be welcoming Jo Melvin (Chelsea College of Art) and Marc Atkins & Rod Mengham (Sounding Pole Films) to deliver keynote addresses.

Do join us for what promises to be a fascinating day of talks and discussion.

Tickets are £39 and include entry to all the talks, lunch and refreshments during the day.

Full details relating to ticket purchase and venue as well as a draft programme can be found on the website:

http://thealchemicallandscape.blogspot.co.uk/

Any questions, please e-mail: thealchemicallandscape@gmail.com

Conveners

Yvonne Salmon FRSA FRGS FRAI
Lecturer (Affiliated), University of Cambridge

James Riley FRSA
Fellow of English, Girton College, University of Cambridge

Engaging in Qualitative Methods Postgraduate Workshop: Friday 22nd April at the RGS in London

The Social and Cultural Geography research group, GFGRG and GLTRG research groups are sponsoring a session at the Royal Geographical Society on Friday 22nd April 10am – 4.30pm. The session is titled ‘Engaging in Qualitative Methods Postgraduate Workshop’ which will be held at the RGS building in Central London, SW7 2AR.

Need some help working out your methodology? Want to learn more about the Royal Geographical Society and it’s research groups? Or just want to meet some other doctoral students and chat through your ideas? This workshop is designed to help those students at the beginning of their PhD or MA journeys to think critically about their methods and methodology and offer a space to meet and chat with other students in an informal atmosphere in the beautiful RGS building in central London.

Sessions:

Introduction to methodology & methods
Key Note Speaker – Dr Erin Sanders-McDonagh, Middlesex University. Erin is committed to research that has an impact and she has experience using a multitude of methods in extremely diverse contexts.
Innovative research methods & methodologies; visual, participatory, feminist approaches. This will be run as an active participatory session, encouraging students in thinking about the methods that they might use, but also to innovate and make them effective for the often unique situations encountered in ‘real life’ research.
Be Critical!- Round table exercise designed to get participants to be critical of the research methods that they use and the implications they have on themselves and their participants. When Methods Go Wrong – a session to explore flexibility, lone research safety and to pull from the organisers own experiences to share “lessons learnt”.

Travel Grants Available. Contact Eve at ab7996@coventry.ac.uk for more information.

You can find out more information about tickets by clicking here.

Carto-Cymru: The Wales Map Symposium 27th May 2016

Carto-Cymru

The Wales Map Symposium 2016

“Shaping the Nation”

27^th May 2016

10.00am – 4.30pm

An event hosted by the National Library of Wales in association with the

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Theme:

Shaping the Nation – the role of maps in both depicting and creating the nation both as an entity on the ground and also as a perception in the minds of people.

Presentations:

Mapping the Marches: Marginal Places and Spaces of Cartographic Innovation

Keith Lilley, Professor of Historical Geography, Queen’s University Belfast

Shapes of Scotland: Maps, history and national identity

Chris Fleet, Map Curator, National Library of Scotland

The Military Map Collection of George III: a cartographic record of European wars, empires won and empires lost

Yolande Hodson, Map historian; cataloguer of King George III’s Military Maps in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle

Ail-ddychmygu daearyddiaethau’r iaith Gymraeg/Re-imagining geographies of Welshness

Rhys Jones, Head of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University

Humphrey Llwyd and the map of Wales

Huw Thomas, Map Curator, National Library of Wales

Maps and mapping at the Royal Commission; putting the past in its place

Tom Pert, On-line Development Manager, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Tickets available for free, morning and afternoon refreshments provided.

For tickets phone: 01970 632 548 or visit: www.llgc.org.uk/drwm