Taking Place

Alternate Mondays, 17.15-19.00 in term time
CRASSH, Seminar room, SG2 Ground floor
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT


Programme 2011-12

For further information click the individual event title.

 Easter Term 2012

Layering Territories, Making Place: The Case of Maxwell Street, Chicago
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Tim Cresswell (Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London). NB Thursday 10 May at 5.00pm
England's Silent Places: Landscape, Photography and Identity Formation
Monday, 21 May 2012
Ingrid Pollard (Artist and Photographer)
Title TBC
Thursday, 7 Jun 2012
NB Different date
 

 Lent Term 2012

Four Maps and a Wedding: Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples and Contested Notions of Landscape and Territory
Monday, 30 Jan 2012
Dr Sarah Radcliffe (Reader in Latin American Geography, Cambridge), Respondent: Dr Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge)
Place, Belonging and Language in North-West Greenland: Some Initial Thoughts
Monday, 13 Feb 2012
Dr Stephen Pax Leonard (Research Fellow in Linguistics, Cambridge)
From Preserving Sites to Restoring Nature in the Landscape
Monday, 27 Feb 2012
Brian Eversham (Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough)
Roundtable: Place and the Museum: Landscape, Heritage and Conservation
Monday, 12 Mar 2012
Dr Dacia Viejo Rose (Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identities after Conflict, Cambridge), Bryan Lintott (Exhibitions Officer, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) - other speakers tbc
 

Michaelmas Term 2011

Giving Time, Taking Place: Inheriting Landscape on a Dynamic Planet
Monday, 17 Oct 2011
Nigel Clark (Senior Lecturer of Human Geography, The Open University)
Technologies, Territories, and Mobilities
Monday, 31 Oct 2011
David Morley (Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
Monday, 14 Nov 2011
David Matless (Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham)
Learning From Detroit: The Aesthetics of Urban Decay
Monday, 28 Nov 2011
Christopher Woodward (Director, The Garden Museum, London).