'Peripatetic Practices': a workshop on walking

'Peripatetic Practices': a workshop on walking

This one-day interdisciplinary workshop in central London aims to address different ways of thinking through and about the practice of walking. For the workshop we are keen to receive papers which address walking as a topic or a mode of social research. Themes to be addressed in the workshop include; walking in urban and rural environments; walking as ethnographic practice; researching contemporary walkers and walking behaviour; walking as a form place making and mode of embodied knowledge; walking as a mode of travel and walking as a leisure activity.

Discussants:

Professor Tim Cresswell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
Dr John Wylie (University of Exeter)

This event will be held on Monday 31st March 2008 at Bedford Square, Gower Street, London WC1E (detailed programme to follow)

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to both Hannah Macpherson (Hannah.Macpherson@rhul.ac.uk) and Jennie Middleton (Jennie.Middleton@rhul.ac.uk) by 31st October 2007.