Mythological Panoramas: tracing distortions and fictions of landscape across time and space - 04/10/
In recent decades, the ‘spatial turn’ in critical theory has heralded an increased focus on geographical tensions across the humanities. Considering the nature of spaces and places allows us to elucidate the complex dialectics that lie beneath physical appearances, revealing how locations can become both ‘real-and-imagined’ (Soja, 1996) due to conflicting representations. Landscape is thus an important locus of ideological world creation and contestation. Likewise, mythologising is a tool for political cosmopoesis. This conference aims to analyse the two together to ask how and why a landscape becomes ‘mythological’, and what happens during this process.
FECHA /DATE/DATA: 04/10/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Senate House, University of London (London, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Elizabeth Chant; Connie Bloomfield ; Abigail Walker
INFO: web - mythologicalpanoramas@gmail.com ; elizabeth.chant.17@ucl.ac.uk ; connie.bloomfield@kcl.ac.uk; abigail.walker@kcl.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Deadline: 29/09/2018
Gratis/free/gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
9:30-10:00: Registration and coffee
10:00-10:15: Welcome from the organisers
10.15-11.30: Panel 1: Myth and the City
Sayan Skandarajah (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
Authorship and Authority – Parallel Projection and Urban Imagination in “Rakuchu Rakugai zu” Paintings of Early Modern Kyoto
Janina Schupp (University of Cambridge)
From Suburban Paradise to Threat: The Reversal of a Mythologizing Cinematic Gaze in the Parisian Suburbs
Thierry Verburgh (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
“Soaking Up the Punky-funky All-feel of Eastern Kreuzberg”: Tourism and the Mythification of Subcultural Kreuzberg, 1960-2017
11:30-11:50: Coffee break
11.50-1.30: Panel 2: Myth and Identity
Ruth Bernatek (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
Mapping the Mythical Landscape Through Sound and Voice in
Iannis Xenakis’ Polytope de Mycenae (1978)
Pauline Harding (University College London)
Mythologising Archaeological Landscapes
Samuel Agbamu (King’s College London)
The Mediterranean and the Myth of Mare Nostrum
Yuliya Suleyeva (University College London)
Geographical and Metaphysical Insecurities of Contemporary Russia and the Postmodernist Myth of Russia’s Exceptionalism: Ontological Properties of the Spatio-Temporal Mythological Construct of the ‘Russian Path’
1:30-2:15: Lunch
2:15- 3:55: Panel 3: Mythologies of Landscape
William Melaney (The American University in Cairo)
Wordsworthian Tales: Myth, Nature and History
Monica Germanà (University of Westminster)
Sublime Mindscapes: Mythologised Other Places and the Creative Imagination in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Richard Kendall (University of Birmingham)
Mythological Flatness: The Myth of Icarus
Michael Economou (University of Oxford)
Reimagining the Sacred Landscape of the Judean and Samarian Hill Country
3.55-4.15: Coffee break
4.15-5.15: Keynote:
Prof. John Wylie (University of Exeter)
The Common Line: Creating Landscape Mythologies
5.15-5.30: Closing remarks
5.45-6.30: Wine reception