Well, this looks interesting, doesn’t it? The international emotional geographies conference finally comes to the US, and it’s happening at my alma mater. Of course, it’s not that big of a surprise; it’s being co-produced by my friend and former adviser Deborah Thien along with her fellow human geography star Stuart Aitken (SDSU). I’m copying and pasting the information from the EmoGeo (easily a contender with DOPE for best conference shorthand in North America) page on the CSULB website, which from what I can tell also uses WordPress based on how cleanly it copied. Hope you find this interesting and feel free to pass it along! – Tyler

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

The 6th International Emotional Geographies conference will be held in the USA for the first time.

Co-hosted by Dr. Deborah Thien, CSULB, and Dr. Stuart Aitken, SDSU, with support from Emotion, Space and Society. We look forward to a wealth of interdisciplinary presentations, presenters and attendees, in Long Beach, California, June 14-16, 2017.

We encourage sessions, papers, panels and posters that investigate the emotional intersections between people and places including examinations of feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. Questions of emotion are relevant to several different disciplines – we seek considerations of the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life, representing an inclusive range of theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

LIZ BONDI

University of Edinburgh, UK

LYNDA JOHNSTON

University of Waikato, NZ

JOIN US!

Conference registration fees and deadlines:

Registration & Abstracts

• Earlybird : $150, register between February 11th, 2017 and April 13th, 2017
• Regular: $175, register between April 14th, 2017 and May 11th, 2017
• Late: $200, register on or after May 12th, 2017
• Day Rate: $70
• Student Conference Rates: $50 (Earlybird), $60 (Regular), $70 (Late)
• Abstracts will be accepted during Earlybird and Regular registration periods

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Interested in childcare options? Please write to emogeo@csulb.edu.