INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND THE PRAGMATIC TRADITION
23-24 May 2017 at Queen Mary University of London
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
TUESDAY 23rd MAY 2017
9:00 – 9:30
Welcome and Introductions
9:30 – 11:00
Session 1. Pragmatist Ontologies
Gary Bridge, Geography & Planning, Cardiff University, UK
“Situating spatial transitions: Dewey and the uncertainties of life”
Ihnjinette Jon, Urban Planning & Design, University of Washington, US
“Seeking for a ‘moment,’ not the truth: Pragmatism and contemporary planning
theory”
Meg Holden, Urban Studies & Geography, Simon Fraser University, CA
“Why the cash value of contemporary pragmatism for geography depends on more
than its materialism”
11:00 – 11:10
Coffee
11:10 – 12:40
Session 2. Pragmatist Processes
Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK
“Pragmatism and local methods for creative (geographical) inquiry”
Klaus Geiselhart, Institut for Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat, Germany
“Social criticism? Sure, but how? Opposition and mediation as socio-political
attitudes”
Trevor Barnes, Geography, University of British Columbia, CA
“What geographers talk about when they talk about talk”
12:40 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 3:00
Session 3. Pragmatism and Feminism/Rights
Susan Saegert, Geography & Environmental Psychology, CUNY, US
“Embodied inequalities: Can we go beyond the geographies and epistemologies of
ignorance?”
Nichola Wood, Geography, University of Leeds, UK
“Pragmatism and feminism: The women of Hull House”
Joe Hoover, Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK
“Performative rights and situationist ethics”
3:00 – 3:10
Tea
3:10 – 5:10
Session 4. Pragmatism and Democracy
Malcolm Cutchin, Health Care Sciences, Wayne State University, US
“Habits of social inquiry and reconstruction: A Deweyan vision of democracy,
imagination, and human geography”
Jane Wills and Liam Harney, Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK
“Pragmatism, place, publics, and people”
Laura Cesafsky, Geography, Environment & Society, University of Minnesota, US
“Of footholds and stages: Democratic subjectification in Dewey and Ranciere”
Crispian Fuller, Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK
“Mead, urban political theory and the political subject”
6:00 – 8:00
Public Lecture
Robert Lake, Geography and Urban Planning, Rutgers University, US
“Hope for Democracy: Pragmatism between populism and expertise”
WEDNESDAY 24TH MAY 2017
9:30 – 11:00
Session 5. Pragmatism and Political Economy
Jamie Gough, Urban Studies & Planning, University of Sheffield, UK
“Political economy and pragmatism: Brexit, xenophobia, and left strategy”
Alireza Farahani, Geography, Clark University, US
“Exploring possibilities for a new encounter in the grounds of development”
Patrick Heidkamp, Southern Connecticut State University, US
“Toward a critical pragmatist approach to an (environmental) economic geography”
11:00 – 11:10
Coffee
11:10 – 12:40
Session 6. Pragmatism, Geography, and Justice
Daniel Esser, School of International Service, American University, US
“Disembedding Dewey: Pragmatism beyond modernity?
Alice Huff, Geography, UCLA, US
“Conflict and moral inquiry: Negotiating difference in New Orleans neighborhood
schooling struggles”
Richard Nunes, Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading, UK
“Pragmatism and justice: From critical pragmatism to transformative pragmatism”
12:40 – 2:00
Lunch, Conference Review and Discussion of Next Steps