Critical Geography, Spatial Theory and Everyday Life: A Symposium
March 15, 2013
12:30 Opening Remarks and Light Snacks/ Refreshments
Space and the Production of Citizens
12:40-1:00 “Biological Citizenship and Everyday Geopolitics of Reproductive Healthcare: Exploring the Experience of Latina Immigrants in Atlanta, GA,” Rebecca Lane, University of Kentucky
1:00-1:20 “Intersections of Identity in a City of Refuge,” Cheryl Nye, Georgia State University
1:20-1:30 Break
1:30-2:00 Roundtable – Rethinking the Everyday
“Spatial Practices and Everyday Life in the Context of Long-Haul Trucking,” Brooke Marshall, Georgia State University
“‘We get it, you have a glue gun, OK!’: Takers, Makers, and Contemporary Domestic Space,” Alejo Venegas-Steele, Georgia State University
2:00-2:05 Break
Spatializing Aesthetics and Affect
2:05-2:25 “Going Elsewhere, Getting Nowhere: Queering Space in Brokeback Mountain, ” Lauran Whitworth, Emory University
2:25-2:45 “Space before Measure in Rauschenberg: The Infancy of the Tangible,” Roger Taylor
2:45-3:30 Lunch
Exploring Colonial Space
3:30-3:50 “Mobility and Production of Colonial Space,” Dylan Ruediger, Georgia State University
3:50-4:10 “Limiting the City: Genealogy of Property Relations in Colonial Calcutta,” Debjani Bhattacharyya, Emory University
4:10-4:20 Break
4:30-5:00 Roundtable – Rethinking Spaces of Community
“The Normativity of Gay Space at Atlanta Pride vs. Queer Comfort at Monohomo,” Sarah Beasley, Georgia State University
“A Crucible of Communities, a Festivus for the Virtual, an Ecology of Affects, Signs, & Rituals in a City of Tents: An Ethnographic Flanurie through Hyperreal Heterotopic Spaces & Places Beyond Everyday Life’s Performance”
Logan Kirkland, Georgia State University
5:00-5:05 Break
Interrogating the Urban
5:05-5:25 “A Biographical Map, a City Map, and a Not a Map,” David Stolarsky, Georgia Institute of Technology
5:25-5:45 “Blueprinting Segregation for the Future: Race and Transportation Planning in Postwar Atlanta, 1944-1979,” John E. Williams, Georgia State University
5:45 Closing Remarks
