**Spatial Perspectives Speakers Confirmed and Panel Chairs Announced**
We are delighted to announce the confirmed panel speakers and panel chairs for the fourteen panels running at the Spatial Perspectives: Literature and Architecture, 1850-Present conference at the University of Oxford, 22 June 2012.
Chairs: Tim Abrahams, Sally Bayley, Rebecca Beasley, Simon Grimble, Owen Hatherley, Ayla Lepine, Douglas Murphy, Matthew Reynolds, Tessa Roynon, Julie Taylor, Will Viney, Eric White
Keynotes: Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London
Prof. Douglas Tallack, Professor of American Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester
Writing the Architect / Writers that Build
Speakers: Barrie Bullen, University of Reading; Harry Charrington, University of Bath; Jane Anderson, Oxford Brookes University and Colin Priest, Chelsea School of Art
Literature / Architectural Discourse
Speakers: Peter Kellow, Architect; Wang Qi, University of Nottingham; Darren R. Deane, Manchester School of Architecture
Urban London
Speakers: Henderson Downing, Birkbeck; Victoria McNeile, Independent Scholar; Matthew Ingleby, UCL
Modernism / Literature / Architecture
Speakers: Scott Freer, University of Leicester and David Fensome, Independent Scholar; R. John Williams, Yale University; Paul Haacke, University of California, Berkeley
Race / Postcolonial – Architecture and “Otherness”
Speakers: Adrienne Brown, University of Chicago; Kimberly Juanita Brown, Northeastern University; Dominic Davies, University of Oxford
Pen and Ink: Representing the Built Environment
Speakers: Fiona Curran, Slade School of Fine Art; David Short, University of Nottingham; Julian Ferraro, University of Liverpool
Reading the Domestic Interior
Speakers: Antony Buxton, University of Oxford; Rebecca Devers, New York City College of Technology (CUNY); Amanda Leigh Davis, University of Chicago
Building Stories / Translating Spaces
Speakers: Rosa Ainley, Writer / Artist; Siân Thomas, Poet; Edward Hollis, University of Edinburgh
Mapping the City
Speakers: Claudine Gélinas-Faucher, McGill University; Angeliki Sioli, McGill University School of Architecture; Thomas Kohlwein, Vienna University of Technology
Textual Spaces / Spatial Texts
Speakers: Betiel Wasihun, University of Oxford; Esra Almas, University of Amsterdam; Rachele Dini, University College London
Shifting Modernisms: Spaces of Transition
Speakers: Emma Short, Newcastle University; Rebecca Roberts-Hughes, King’s College London and Policy Manager RIBA; Sarah McGaughey, Dickinson College, PA
Form, Representation and Poetry
Speakers: Susan Jaret McKinstry, Carleton College, MN; Greg Thomas, University of Edinburgh; Yasmine Shamma, University of Oxford
Glass Houses: Utopias / Dystopias
Speakers: Nathaniel R. Walker, Brown University; Neal Shasore, University of Oxford; Rachael Stanley, University of Nottingham
Architectural Fictions
Speakers: Claire Jamieson, Royal College of Art; Lisa Mullen, Birkbeck; Jennifer Johnson, University of Oxford
Click here for the Spatial Perspectives Conference Abstracts
Click here to read the speakers’ BIOGRAPHIES
Registration is open until Monday 11 June 2012.
Please register here http://spatialperspectives.wordpress.com/registration/
Registration is £35 and includes tea and coffee, lunch and wine reception.
The conference is organised by Terri Mullholland and Nicole Sierra from the University of Oxford. If you have any queries, please contact us at: literature.architecture@gmail.com
This event is supported by the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford and Jesus College, University of Oxford.
