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October 7, 2005
A 'Geography' Section in the Ig Nobels?
At my work we get sent many adverts for academic conferences. Few attract me. This one was an exception, and, I think, possibly up for an Ig Nobel next year? N.B. Here follow quotes from an advert, with references removed to protect the innocent.
Hudographies: co(a)gent spaces of companionspecies
We have yet to develop a sustained set of geographies of human-animal relations in their specificity. The proposed sessions aim to advance the study of animal-human geographies through a focus on two species and their complex ways-of-relating: humans and dogs.
Inspired by discussion of the hudogledog (human + doglead + dog), we want to use these sessions to explore what is called 'the inescapable, contradictory story of relationships' between dogs and their humans; relationships which are co-constitutive, 'in which none of the partners pre-exist the relating, and the relating is never done once and for all'.
Got that? I could go on (and on)
Possible topics are given as (and I'm only chosing the weird ones, obviously):
Dogs and (human) identity, dogs and human work (including space exploration- anyone remember laika?), sporting hudographies, dog cybercultures, legal hudographies, media hudographies.
Man, I want to go to this conference.
Posted by scumkitten at October 7, 2005 2:23 PM
Comments
"dog cybercultures"
truly, now I have heard everything I ever need ti know about academic conferences and I thought medical sociology were mental
maybe you could present a paper about knitting with doghair as an example of the dog-human interface.....
Posted by: purlpower at October 7, 2005 5:43 PM
what are the illegal hudographies? euch.
Posted by: Dog lover at October 7, 2005 10:06 PM
Believe me, coming to the academic study of Geography 'late', I have come to realise that these academics can argue anything is 'Geography'- as it is not just about physical space, but also our internal spaces, man.
Posted by: Skitten at October 8, 2005 6:55 PM
Geography of our internal spaces..... that sounds like a couple of things to me. Anatomy. Gray's Anatomy, dissections, Leonardo Da Vinci, Professor Gunther Von Hagens... Or Timothy Leary type explorations of our internal spaces, through the exploration of our psychedelic selves, man. Or weird sex. Or art. Or porn. Or all of it all mixed up together. Georges Bataille would have a field day with this!
Posted by: toxicangel at October 9, 2005 5:39 PM
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