Kent's Interdisciplinary Centre For Spatial Studies

Prof. Nicholas Blomley (Simon Fraser, Geography) will be visiting KISS and KLS as well as giving a talk in the Spring (13th February).In anticipation of his seminar and overall visit we are reading some of his work over 3 sessions (2 in the Autumn and 1 in Spring):

Session 2
Friday 9th November
16.00-17.30
Brian Simpson Room (Eliot Extension, Kent Law School)
Reading: Blomley (2017) “The territorialization of property in land: space, power and practice, Territory, Politics, Governance” [email Thanos for it]

No prior knowledge needed, All welcome! Feel free to circulate but note that the room has a limited capacity and we will operate on a first come first served sort of basis please.

Any questions email: [email protected]

New website of the Centre launched and live! https://research.kent.ac.uk/kiss/

Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies – Dedicated to a holistic study of spatial patterns and phenomena KISS is the UK’s only research Centre dedicated to a holistic study of spatial patterns and phenomena through an interdisciplinary and integrative approach that brings together the Arts, Anthropology, Ecology,

Prof. Nicholas Blomley (Simon Fraser, Geography) will be visiting KISS and KLS as well as giving a talk in the Spring (February). In anticipation of his seminar and visit we shall read some of his work over 3 sessions (2 in the Autumn and 1 in Spring):

Session 1
Tuesday 2nd October
15.00-16.30
Brian Simpson Room (Eliot Extension, Kent Law School)
Reading: Nicholas Blomley (2005) “Flowers in the Bathtub: Boundary Crossings at the Public-Private Divide”, 36 Geoforum [request if you cannot locate]

Session 2
Friday 9th November
16.00-17.30
Brian Simpson Room (Eliot Extension, Kent Law School)
Reading: Nicholas Blomley (2017) “The territorialization of property in land: space, power and practice, Territory, Politics, Governance” [available upon request]

email: [email protected]

We are now breaking for the summer season but will be back in early September with further news and an exciting programme of events that we hope will meet your interests. Enjoy the rest of the Summer and see you in the Autumn!

The second distinguished visitor in the new academic year is Prof. Derek Gregory. Have a taster here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0nYjF_GepQ

Derek Gregory - Precarious Journeys On September 15, 2016 the Peter Wall Institute presented 'War Stories' from Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones told by foreign correspondents, combat...

Exciting news to announce! In the new Academic year we are going to have two exceptional visitors who will speak at the Centre and whom we will read in reading sessions prior to their visits. First Prof. Nick Blomley, distinguished geographer. Have a taster here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLn23dYCwBo

Nicholas Blomley: Property, territory and the right not to be excluded Legal geographer Nicholas Blomley presents “Property, Territory and the Right not to be Excluded” at the Contested Property Claims conference, hosted at Aarh...

Glenn Bowman Eleanor Jupp Ptx Rm Kat Peddie Abraham Avi Khalil Mia Tamarin Gian-Giacomo Fusco Vince Miller Jessica Smith Helen Carr Robert Fish Naomi Woods Rocio Jungenfeld Aki Pasoulas David Ayers Thank you so very much for participating and presenting at the KISS internal workshop this year. It was a most enjoyable and meaningful event thanks to all of you! Let's keep this conversation going, get in touch with your ideas for events and meetings anytime you like. (I hope I did not forget anyone, forgive... the tiredness!)

Kent's Interdisciplinary Centre For Spatial Studies Kent's Interdisciplinary Centre For Spatial Studies is a University of Kent Center for Research and Training in spatial studies conceived widely.

Researching and Teaching Spatiallyat the University of Kent:Our Research as a Space of Critical Study and Resistance.

Invitation: Centre for Research in European Architecture interdisciplinary Conference - 28-29th June
the Centre for Research in European Architecture in the School of Architecture is holding a conference at the Cathedral Lodge on the 28th and 29th of June titled: 'From Building to Continent: How Architecture Makes Territories'. The main point of the conference is to consider geography and architecture as complementary fields of inquiry.

Website with all details here: https://research.kent.ac.uk/frombuildingtocontinent/

Kent Staff and Students need only pay the reduced fee of 25 GBP, either online, or cash at the door.

We hope to see some of your there.

KSA CREAte Biennial Conference 2018 – From Building to Continent Full programme available here. Session abstracts available here. Conference organisers: Dr. David H. Haney, Dr. Luciano Cardellicchio Cultural landscape refers to landscapes shaped by humans through habitation, cultivation, exploitation and

Kent colleagues do you want to present and discuss your work [research as well as teaching, as you wish] (with its spatial tendency or line of flight in whatever sense) at an informal internal 2 day workshop in Canterbury on the 2nd and 3rd of July? Do you want to think about collaborations of any kind?

Research and Teaching Spatially at the University of Kent:
Our Research as a Space of Critical Study and Resistance.

Get in touch here with a comment or an email to [email protected], and before the 5th of June please. Come! (No need to prepare a new paper or anything just come and chat along).

Dear Colleagues, please find below the call for papers for our KISS Internal Workshop and please do circulate it to all that may be interested. It would be really great if many of you accepted our invitation to come and briefly present your work in a relaxed manner and to explore ways in which we can think and practice our research together. All welcome, members of not, and from any discipline.

Kent Interdisciplinary Centre in Spatial Studies
Internal Workshop
2nd – 3rd July 2018
Canterbury, University of Kent

Call for Participation and short Papers

Research and Teaching Spatially at the University of Kent:
Our Research as a Space of Critical Study and Resistance.

Dear Colleagues,

This call is open to members of the Centre as well as all non-member colleagues at the University, across its campuses and schools, including currently and recently completed doctoral students.

We cordially invite you to participate in an exclusively internal 2-day workshop in order to celebrate the first 3 years of the activities of the Centre, but more importantly in order to help us transform its work much further in the horizon of the next 3 years towards building more dynamically and further our local connections and our interdisciplinary collaboration.

Our call is fairly straightforward then: please let us know, by filling the attached brief form, if you would like to briefly present an aspect or a kaleidoscopic summary of your ‘spatial’ research (however widely interpreted and in whatever ‘discipline’), whether as an individual or as a group, in a talk of no more than 10 mins and come prepared to discuss with colleagues what your ideas and interests may be in terms of collaborative and cooperative research and teaching and researching critically at the University. There is no need to invent a new topic or work hard on a new idea, we are sure you are already doing fascinating and rich work that we need to simply become mutually aware of.

As you can see above from its title the 2-day workshop also has a declared general theme but please do not feel that you necessarily need to speak directly to it. The theme is set, as an aid, for our collective discussions at the workshop and it does not have to be expounded in panels too if participants do not desire to do so. Hence, there is a dual purpose in this workshop:

Let’s briefly present to each other our spatial related work and talk about our research, both so that we all get a better sense of the richness and diversity of work done by our colleagues and so that we explore ways to collaborate in whatever manner that becomes conceivable (i.e. creating an informal research group; applying for grants; reading and/or writing something together etc.); and,
Let’s find, on this occasion, the relaxed space and time to talk about the set theme of the workshop as to the University as an institutional political, social and economic space.

If you are happy to participate please email : [email protected]
by the latest Friday the 1st of June 2018.

https://news.channel4.com/2017/grenfell-tower/
and don't miss our event on Grenfell in December!

The People of Grenfell Tower In the early hours of 14 June 2017 a fire tore through Grenfell Tower in West London. About 80 people lost their lives, 18 of them children. Many others faced a harrowing escape.

A really big thank you to all of you who generously gave up your time to attend the annual lecture last night and for the overall participation. Lahoud remind us of what genuine interdisciplinary work must strive at and offered us a glimpse into his fascinating new work and we can't thank him enough for honouring us with his presence and contribution.

Many thanks to David Henig for his seminar talk at the KISS Seminar series this week and to all who attended for their participation. Thanks also to the Luis Eslava and Sara Kendall for co-organizing the event!

CineMigrante in Canterbury! A very exciting programme of film screenings and talks organized for the 18th and 19th of October at the Gulbenkian and other venues on the Canterbury Campus - see details below. ALL WELCOME!

CineMigrante is a film festival born in Buenos Aires in 2010 to create a cinematographic space that contributes to raising awareness on migration and to contrast mass media stereotyped approach to the topic. The aim is that of promoting intercultural dialogue and cultural integration all around the world, providing spaces for information and/or training on issues related to migration and rights. Since 2010 CineMigrante, has moved through countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Portugal, Chile, Spain and Italy.

The festival in Canterbury, with the collaboration of Kent Law School and the Social Critiques of Law (SoCriL) Research Group, is structured along two days, 18th and 19th of October, with one inaugural workshop with all participants, four film screenings along the two days, and one workshop on academia and activism.

The focus of this edition is on “the border". The inaugural workshop will provide an opportunity to debate migration and borders through different perspectives (academy, activism, cinema). Each film will consider one particular instance: Calais, Lampedusa, Melilla, Mexico. The seminar with Enrica Rigo will provide a space to discuss how social activism in the practice of law can affect academic dynamics, starting from the Università Roma 3 experience.

Wednesday 18th October 2017 (Gulbenkian Cinema)
18.30 - 19.30 Opening Remarks (Florencia Mazzadi; Martina Bernabai - CineMigrante; Anne Hardy - Kent Refugee Action Network)
19.30 -21.00 Lampedusa by Peter Schreiner (Gabriele D'Adda; Enrica Rigo, Università Roma Tre)
21.00 - 23.00 The Golden Dream by Diego Quemada-Diez (introduced by Florencia Mazzadi)

Thursday 19th October 2017
16.00 – 18.00 Keynes (SR15) Seminar on law and activism (Enrica Rigo, Carlo Caprioglio - Università Roma Tre; Razia Shariff - Kent Refugee Action Network; Richard Warren, Gavin Sullivan - Kent Law School).

18.30 - 21.00 Gulbenkian Cinema May they rest in revolt. Figures of wars (introduced by Florencia Mazzadi)
21.00 - 23.00 Gulbenkian Cinema Victimes de nos richesses (introduced by Martina Bernabai)

A multi-disciplinary reading group open to all KISS members and beyond: 'Anthropocene Exploratory' - see the link below please for all the relevant details: https://anthropoceneexploratory.wordpress.com/

The first meeting is on October 13th, meeting at Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building, 5pm. All welcome

Anthropocene Exploratory thinking across boundaries

Kent's School of Architecture is calling for papers for its biennial conference at KSA CREAte in Canterbury this coming June. See the detail here: https://research.kent.ac.uk/frombuildingtocontinent/

Keynote Lectures:

Professor Lucia Allais, Princeton University (US): ‘Maps of monuments and scales of design: Strategic bombing and the postwar international order’.
Professor Mark Bassin, Södertörn University (Stockholm): ‘Nature as State: Geopolitics and Landscape Monuments’.
Professor Kenny Cupers, University of Basel: ‘The Earth that Modernism Built’.
Professor Tullia Iori, The University of Rome Tor Vergata: ‘Engineering the Italian Landscape: the Autostrada del Sole as Territorial Construct for a New Post-War National Identity’.

KSA CREAte Biennial Conference 2018 Conference organisers: Dr. David H. Haney, Dr. Luciano Cardellicchio Cultural landscape refers to landscapes shaped by humans through habitation, cultivation, exploitation and stewardship, and has influenced thinking in other fields,

Thanks to everyone who joined us during this academic year! We are already preparing an exciting programme of events for the year to come and we are looking forward to inviting you all to it. As we break now for the season, we'll be back in September with the details! Have a good summer everyone.

Governance and Planetary Crises: Challenges and Agendas for Human Ecology About this event: This half-day conference seeks to address a central paradox confronting industrial society, if not humanity, as it continues headlong into the twenty-first century: the collective ability of humans, or of some humans at any rate, to fundamentally transform the Earth and its life-su...

Many Thanks to those of you who generously found time for our seminar yesterday with the wonderful Jane Rendell. For those that missed it here is a proximate talk she gave earlier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyaSEh0DpA

Keynote: Jane Rendell

An excellent talk we had by Dr. Manolescu, on ruins, reversing the future, art, New Jersey-Rome-Mexico and more. Thanks to all who came and contributed.

Thank you for your great attendance at a busy time. The annual lecture was a great success thanks to you! Here is Prof. Penn at work followed by a very relaxed reception.

Research Talk NEXT WEEK: An exciting seminar by Francesco Salvini, an engaging speaker with great experience in urban politics (Spain, Italy, elsewhere).

Wednesday 19 October at 1 – 2.30pm in Eliot Lyons room. This event is jointly hosted by KLS/SOCRIL, supported by KISS. All Welcome!

In the crisis of welfare, towards an ecology of care: learning from Trieste

Is it possible to imagine "welfare" as a dynamic and distributed and practice of care and emancipation? Can we socially unlearn both the neoliberal individualistic and the social democratic prescriptive modes of welfare provision? Can we start to inhabit a difficult, but possible, urban ecology of care? At stake is the necessity of a new imagination of welfare throughout the crisis; or in other words, the possibility of a different practice of care in our everyday life. This new politics of care can become real only encountering concrete practices and alternative imaginations that provide a gateway of healing, out of the contemporary crisis. In order to address this question, I engage with the experience of Trieste, a forty years long practice of radical public policies in the field of healthcare, with the objective of unveiling a radical democratic form of regulation and governance of welfare policies.

Apologies for the late notice: Thursday this week!
The Human Ecology Research Theme and DICE are welcoming Mark Hampton (University of Kent) to give a seminar this week:

'And the winners are?' Coasts, Communities and Tourism in South-East Asia. Reflections from Field Research’

The seminar takes place on Thursday, 16.00 to 17.00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 and all are welcome.

"Valuing Nature" Conference this week: 19 & 20 July 2016
http://valuing-nature.net/valpart

Valuing Nature & Participatory Decision Making Conference | Valuing Nature Network

Final Day of the KISS 5-day Festival tomorrow: Join us if you can.

17 June FRIDAY
Medieval & Early Modern Studies Festival


Full details here: https://memsfestival.wordpress.com/programme/
The Festival is free and open to all.

Where: Grimond (Various locations, please see the signs at the building when you enter)

Programme:

9.15am - REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9.30 - OPENING REMARKS & INTRODUCTIONS TO EXHIBITS

10.15-11.30 SESSION 1 [3 parallel panels]

PANEL A – AHRC Illuminating the Past Presents: Beyond Gothic Glass

Oliver Fearon – ‘I will that a knoleche be sought’: The patronage of heraldic displays for English houses c.1490-1540

Jack Wilcox – ‘O Radix Jesse’: The Iconography of Tree of Jesse Window

Bahar Badiee – Orsi: Coloured Windows of Iran

PANEL B – Book Culture in Tudor England

Nicole Perry – Interpreting reading practices in a Tudor Primer

Lorraine Flisher – Books and Book Ownership: Contextualising the mental world of readers in Cranbrook, Kent and its neighbourhood, 1570-1660

Claire Bartram – ‘Gentle Reader’: Patronage and Authorial Pretension in Elizabethan Administration


PANEL C: Remedying Perspectives on Medical History

Evana Downes – Tracking the evolution of Scapegoating during Pre-Modern Plague Epidemics

Hillary Burgardt – Problems in the Categorization of Epilepsy in Medieval Europe

Richard Johnson – ‘If any be surprized that we have spoken nothing of Pain’: Rethinking Pain and Surgery in Early Modern England

11.30 COFFEE BREAK

11.50-13.00 SESSION 2

PANEL A – AHRC Illuminating the Past Presents: Picturing Gothic
Roísín Astell – Visualising the Visionary: Artistic Transmission and Adaptation in BnF MS Lat 14410

Amy Jeffs – Sight, Sightlessness and the Cult of Edward the Confessor

Dan Smith – The Rood and the Doom: Interconnections between the Passion and the Last Judgement in Late-Medieval Text and Image

PANEL B– Material Perspectives

Lydia Goodson – ‘tovallie nuove nostrale listate’: Tracing the Materiality and the Despiction of Perugia Towels in Renaissance Italy

Sadie Harrison – Collecting and Consuming Natural Knowledge in Seventeenth Century Embroidery

Elizabeth Stewart – ‘The Royaltie of Sight’: Using 3d-GIS to recreate contemporary ‘prospects’ and ‘perspectives’ of English designed landscapes, c. 1550-1660

PANEL C – Corruption, Revolt and Crisis in Late Medieval England

Phil Slavin – Privateers and Profiteers: Piracy and Food Crisis in the British Waters in the early Fourteenth Century

Jack Newman – Corruption of Officials in Lincolnshire during the Fourteenth Century

Daniella Gonzalez – The Uses of ‘Common Profit’: Gower and Langland’s London

13.00 LUNCH


14.00-15.00 WORKSHOPS

GIS-Mapping with Justin Colson
An introduction to the digital technique of GIS (geographic information system) Mapping, which enables people to more easily see, analyse and understand patterns and relationships within spatial topographies.

Painted Cloth with Melissa White
An opportunity to create your own painted cloth using Elizabethan decorating techniques, with professional artist and restorer Melissa White, whose work includes the painted interiors at Shakespeare’s Birthplace Museum, Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Special Collections with Josie Caplehorne
Come and hear Josie Capelhorne speak about her work with some of the most beautiful, unique and culturally significant books from Rochester Cathedral Library and about the challenges these materials present.

16.00 QUIZ
Would I Lie To You? with host Alex Holland
How honest are academics really? Come and find out if you can spot the fact from the fiction as staff and students attempt to pass off invention as “research”.

18.30 DRINKS RECEPTION with musical performance by Invicta Voices at the private garden of Canon Irvine, Canterbury Cathedral Precincts


THANK YOU AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE


THE ORGANIZERS ON BEHALF OF KISS
Thanos Zartaloudis
Joseph Tzanopoulos
Catherine Richardson

Programme More details about each panel are in a book of abstracts, which can be downloaded here. Friday 17th June REGISTRATION & COFFEE 09.15 Grimond Foyer OPENING REMARKS & INTRODUCTIONS TO …

TOMORROW IN MEDWAY:

SISRC/KISS/CHASE research event, part of the KISS Festival, DAY 4, which will take place at the Clock Tower Lecture Theatre (CT102) on Thursday 16 June from 11:30 to c.17:30. The event is called ‘Listening, Spaces and the Sounding World’ and the programme is as follows:

- 11:30 Soundscape and Ear Cleaning. (Please bring with you an A4 writing board (or similar) and a pen, which you can carry with you during the soundwalk.)
- 13:30 Break. (Bring your own sandwiches)
- 14:15 ‘Talking Rain’ (multichannel work by Hildegard Westerkamp): Listening session and discussion followed by a short break.
- 15:15 ‘Berlin Babylon’ (88 min, dir. Hubertus Siegert, music by Einstürzende Neubauten): Documentary Film screening and discussion. Introduction by Thanos Zartaloudis.

Our website is ONLINE finally though yet to be fully informed. https://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/research/research-centres/kiss-secondary.html

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Screening on the 13th (see related post as to details) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvwQ2yZpuP8

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