Decentring Knowledge: geographical perspectives on keywords
Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September 2012, Ron Johnson Research Room, Geography & Planning Building, Winter Street, Sheffield
A workshop held jointly by the Departments of Geography at:
The University of Sheffield, UK and The National University of Singapore.
This workshop takes as its broad aim a critical interrogation of, and sustained attempt to work beyond, the latent EuroAmericanism and geographical situatedness of academic knowledge production within contemporary Human Geography. Taking its cue from Dipesh Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe (2000) and related work in Geography such as Jenny Robinson's Ordinary Cities (2005), the workshop will engender a wide-ranging set of conversations that collectively explore the challenges posed by the unthinking universalisms embedded in many of the concepts, theories and methods through which we regularly work as academic geographers.
Attendance is free and all are welcome to attend
Day 1: Monday 10 September
| 10.30am – 11.30am | Arrival and Registration |
| 11.30am | Welcome & Introductory Remarks (Tariq Jazeel & Tracey Skelton) |
| 11.30am – 12.45pm | Childhood (Chair: Danielle Leahy Laughlin) Deborah Sporton Tracey Skelton |
| 12.45pm – 2pm | Lunch |
| 2pm - 3pm | Queer (Chair: Tracey Skelton) Richard Phillips Tariq Jazeel Eric Olund |
| 3pm - 3.50pm | Geopolitics (Chair: Richard Phillips) Dan Hammett & James Sidaway |
| 3.50pm – 4.15pm | Coffee |
| 4.15pm – 5.05pm | Inequality (Chair: Deborah Sporton) Danny Dorling Adam Whitworth |
| 5.05pm - 5.15pm | Break |
| 5.15pm - 6.30pm |
Keynote Talk and Discussion Professor Linda Peake (Social Sciences & Women’s Studies, York University, Canada) Encountering less familiar terrain: feminism and the urban |
| 6.30pm - 7.30pm | Wine reception, Café area, Geography Buildling |
| 8pm | Dinner for workshop participants at The Milestone |
Day 2: Tuesday 11 September
| 9am – 10.10am | Water (Chair: Kimberley Peters) Will Wright Dan Friess Helen Moggridge |
| 10.10am – 10.30am |
Coffee |
| 10.30am – 11.20am | Consumption (Chair: Kimberley Peters) Peter Jackson, Matt Watson, & Vincent Song |
| 11.20am – 12.20pm | Development (Chair: Jean Grugel) Pat Noxolo Tracey Skelton Chasca Twyman |
| 12.20pm - 1.30pm | Lunch |
| 1.30pm – 2.45pm | Cosmopolitanism (Chair: Jessica Dubow) Tariq Jazeel Megan Blake Elaine Ho Tim Bunnell |
| 2.45pm – 3.00pm | Coffee |
| 3.00pm – 3.50pm | Aesthetics (Chair: Richard Phillips) Eric Olund Jessica Dubow |
| 3.50pm - 4.50pm | Urban/The City (Chair: Margo Huxley) Tim Bunnell Tracey Skelton Matthew Collins |
| 4.50pm - 5.15pm | Coffee |
| 5.20pm - 6.30pm | Postcolonialism (Chair: Elaine Ho) James Sidaway Tariq Jazeel Pat Noxolo |
| 6.30pm | Concluding Discussion |