The Interdisciplinary and international conference Places, People, Stories
28-30 September 2011
Linnaeus Universityhttp://www.lnu.se
Kalmar, Sweden
This conference investigates the relations between people and places, focusing on the role of stories in constructing meaning and affecting human emotions. Both rural and urban landscapes contain numerous locations that become meaningful places through their association with stories. These stories may be told orally by narrators or by material design; they may be permanent or temporary. The stories may be linked, for example, to the vegetation, the geology, the wild life, the cultural heritage, the mundane built environment, or metaphysical creatures. Whether such stories are historically accurate, purposefully invented or created entirely in residents’ or visitors’ minds is however less important than their potential to touch human beings.
Main aims of the conference
1. to explore the relations between people, places, and stories in the context of notable trends in the Experience Society such as the role of affect, emotion, and sensual stimulation.
2. to investigate how the visual and performative arts can complement academic research by generating both new questions and new kinds of responses to topics at the interface between places, people and stories.
Information about the conference programme and associated excursions as well as the registration form are now available at
http://lnu.se/about-lnu/conferences/places-people-stories-2011?l=en