The Performance of Place
26-27th May 2001
An interdisciplinary graduate conference at the University of Birmingham, hosted by the Departments of English and French.
Concepts of performance and location are increasingly pervasive
in many different disciplines. This conference will seek to bring
together and explore these terms in a provocatively
interdisciplinary environment.
20 minute papers are invited on topics such as:
Mapping
The everyday
Staging the place/ Placing the stage
Postcolonial space
The politics of cartography
Performing frontiers
Topographies of gender
International cinema
Technology
Identity
Migration
Literature
An abstract of no more than 200 words should be sent to the
following address by 30th January 2001.
J. Holmes & E. Jones
Postgraduate Office
School of Humanities
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT