Bordercrossing CfP: Social Water: an Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop

Social and cultural engagements with water have become a rapidly expanding research area. A workshop at the University of York will take water’s various forms and the politics around them as an invitation for postgraduates to present diverse critical perspectives on water’s social meanings.

The keynote speaker is Kimberley Peters, Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, and the workshop concludes with a roundtable discussion led by Professor Graham Huggan of the School of English at the University of Leeds. Abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers should be sent by 13 September.

• Type: Postgrad conference call for papers.
• Deadline: 13 September 2013.
• Event date: 25 October2013.
• Location: University of York, UK.

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