“Spatiality and Temporality” International Conference
22 October 2016 – London
organised by Interdisciplinary Research Foundation



Interdisciplinary Research Foundation is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming “Spatiality and Temporality” International Conference. The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. We invite proposals from various disciplines including philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, culture studies, literature and architecture. The language of the conference is English.

The conference will explore spatiality and temporality as fundamental categories of human experience and cognition and it will discuss various interpretations of these categories and complex relations between them. The conference will also examine conceptions and perceptions of time and space in relation to memory, historical and social change, technological innovations, interactivity and cultural differentiation.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

time and space boundaries
monuments and historical sites
globalization and urban spaces
places made by nature
ruins and forgotten places
heterotopias and heterochronies
toponymy and topoanalysis
cartography and mapmaking

Proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 31 August 2016 to: spatiality.temporality@irf-network.org. Download Paper proposal form.

Notifications from the Conference Committee will be sent by 10 September 2016.

Registration fee – 100 GBP

Conference venue: Monticello House, 45 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 4JP, UK