This CFP con­tains a novel for­mat called Pecha Kucha, which I had to look up. This for­mat wouldn’t be suit­able for every aca­d­e­mic research, obvi­ously, but it’s an inter­est­ing approach to keep­ing pre­sen­ta­tions con­cise and fast-paced.

The College of Arts, University of Glasgow, is excited to announce Spaces of (Dis)location, a two-day mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary post­grad­u­ate con­fer­ence tak­ing place on 24^th – 25^th May 2012.

As national and cul­tural bound­aries are blurred in our increas­ingly global soci­ety, the ideas of space and loca­tion — whether phys­i­cal or meta­phys­i­cal, real or imag­i­nary — are evolv­ing. This notion pro­vides the stim­u­lus for a con­fer­ence that we hope will inspire cre­ativ­ity and debate across many sub­jects in the arts and humanities.

A major aim of this con­fer­ence is to fos­ter net­works and con­nec­tions across dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions and sub­jects. It is also our inten­tion to pub­lish an edited vol­ume with arti­cles from this con­fer­ence through the University of Glasgow’s inter­na­tional post­grad­u­ate research jour­nal eSharp.

Possible top­ics may include, but are not lim­ited to:

• Ideas of space: phys­i­cal and imaginary
• Spatial dichotomies (urban/rural, public/private)
• Globalization
• Localism
• Cultural and nat­ural spaces
• Adaptation (lit­er­ary, lin­guis­tic, cin­e­matic, etc.)
• Cultural dias­pora
• Immigration
• Spaces of performance
• The space of the body

We wel­come sub­mis­sions of abstracts for papers in the clas­sic 20-minute for­mat, but are also keen to accept dif­fer­ent pre­sen­ta­tion for­mats. There will be a poster ses­sion and a Pecha Kucha ses­sion on each day of the con­fer­ence and we would wel­come your sub­mis­sions in these for­mats too.

A Pecha Kucha pre­sen­ta­tion con­sists of 20 slides, each shown for exactly 20 sec­onds, so the entire pre­sen­ta­tion will there­fore last 6 min­utes and 40 sec­onds. It is an engag­ing and chal­leng­ing for­mat for researchers at every stage of their career, but pro­vides a par­tic­u­larly cre­ative for­mat for those just start­ing their research to receive feed­back on their project design and ini­tial find­ings.

The poster ses­sions will take place dur­ing con­fer­ence cof­fee breaks. Presenters will have the oppor­tu­nity to briefly intro­duce their poster and then the posters will all be on dis­play dur­ing the break. The poster ses­sion will offer a space for pre­sen­ters to intro­duce their research to other par­tic­i­pants and, like the Pecha Kucha for­mat, is par­tic­u­larly help­ful to those just start­ing their research.

In addi­tion to the poster and Pecha Kucha for­mats, we will also accept pro­pos­als for short per­for­mance pieces or films that reflect the themes of the con­fer­ence. If you wish to sub­mit such a pro­posal, please also pro­vide us with any tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions that your piece will require.

Please sub­mit abstracts or pro­pos­als of no more than 250 words as e-mail attach­ments to: arts-​pgconference@​glasgow.​ac.​uk. Please include a 50 word biog­ra­phy and spec­ify which pre­sen­ta­tion for­mat you would like to use.

Deadline for sub­mis­sions is Friday 9^th March 2012.

More infor­ma­tion regard­ing the con­fer­ence (includ­ing infor­ma­tion on accom­mo­da­tion and trans­porta­tion) can be found on the conference’s WordPress page: http://​space​sofdis​lo​ca​tion​.word​press​.com

Contact:

Spaces of (Dis)location
Graduate School
College of Arts
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom
Email: arts-​pgconference@​glasgow.​ac.​uk
Web: http://​space​sofdis​lo​ca​tion​.word​press​.com