Spaces of (Dis)location
About this eBook
Over the two days of the conference, around 60 papers were delivered, and this volume aims to showcase some of the most engaging and innovative research which was presented. 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 provided the stimulus for a conference that encouraged creativity and debate across many subjects in the arts and humanities. Topics of essays include: ideas of space (physical and imaginary), globalization, localism, cultural and natural spaces, adaptation, cultural diaspora, immigration, spaces of performance and the space of the body. Most of the essays included in this volume address more than one of the above issues.
Disciplines including visual art, literature, cinema, theatre, philosophy, and education are represented in Spaces of (Dis)location, and all of the essays put into practice ideas of interdisciplinarity by examining how different areas of practice and study inform and engage with each other.
About the author
Allison Macleod is a PhD Candidate in Film and Television at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis is titled “The Queer Negotiation through Homosocial Spaces and Male Homoerotic Desire in Irish Cinema.” Her research interests include Irish cinema; space and movement on film; debates around national and cultural identity; queer theory; gender studies and cultural geography on film.
Jenny Munro is a PhD Candidate in French at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis is titled “Riffaterrean Ungrammaticality and Ricoeurian Discourse as Performance in the Work of Claire Denis.” Her research interests include contemporary European cinema, film music and performance and casting as intertextual.
