Visualising the Rural

This conference aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate questioning the meaning of the contemporary rural landscape seen through photography. What does it mean to live in rural space? Does or can photography shape our understanding of the rural? What does the rural mean to urban population? How do we view and evaluate rural depictions within the context of the wider contemporary art world?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Academics and practitioners are invited to present papers / illustrated talks about their work / projects / research.

Please submit abstracts of 200w - 400w and a short biographical note of 200w to:

Katrin Joost: katrin.joost@cumbria.ac.uk

The deadline for submission is: Monday 11th March 2013

Suggested Themes:

• Edgelands of the Countryside: Intersections between the Rural and the Urban

• Rurality beyond the Pastoral Myth

• Signs of the Rural – Connotations of Locality

• The Conflict between Traditional Economies and Environmental Futures

• Insistent Rift between the Rural and the Urban Realms

• Rural Art – Cutting Edge or Provincial

• The Countryside- The New Playground?