Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place 2018

Papers of twenty minutes on subjects that might include, but are not limited to:

  • Experiences of place and displacement
  • Psychogeography
  • Travel writing
  • (Post)Colonial spaces
  • Politics and place: Brexit, borders, Catalan, the Archipelago.
  • Ecocriticism
  • (Dis)ability and Space
  • Gendered or queer spaces
  • The domestic
  • The unknown
  • Public and private
  • Geocriticism
  • Classed Spaces
  • Indigenous perspectives
  • The rural and/or the urban
  • Race, citizenship, nation

Papers and Creative Work.

Individual papers and creative pieces should be twenty minutes in length. Please send send an abstract of no more than 250-300 words.

Panels.

Panel presentations should be sixty minutes in length. Please send an abstract of no more than 800 words. All male panels will not be accepted.

Please email abstracts to orientations2018@gmail.com with a biography of no more than 100 words per person.

The CfP closes on the 1st of February 2018. Decisions will be made in early March. If you have any access requirements, please email us and we will do our best to accommodate you.