Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space

Across the globe, questions of identity, belonging and national imagination are articulated through landscapes, localities and symbolic claims over place. This one-day interdisciplinary conference explores landscapes and places as contested sites through which political imaginaries, identities and forms of belonging are produced and negotiated. Bringing together diverse perspectives on the relationships between space, identity and power, it explores the entanglement of pride and place across past and present contexts, and at global, transnational and local scales.

Keynote speaker: David Mattless, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham

Confirmed papers include:

On What Grounds: Living Beside Britain’s Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus
Zacharoula Mouzouri, University of Groningen

“Filial Piety”, “Splendid Culture”, and “Outer Space Security”: English-Language Education and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in Hong Kong
Daniel Pun, UCL Institute of Education

On the Edge: Opportunities and Challenges of Pride in Place in Coastal Communities
Dr Suzanne Wilson, University of Lancashire

Whose Blackpool? Mapping belonging through scenographic encounters
Kira Curtis, Lancaster University

Irish Landscapes and Empire in W. B. Yeats’s In the Seven Woods
Paul Vernell, University of Warwick

Pride and Place: Community-led Transformation in Bootle, Liverpool City Region
Professor Kerry Traynor, University of Liverpool

Conference convenors: Aidan Diable (PhD researcher, Department of History, University of Warwick) and Adam Coleman (PhD researcher in History of Art, University of Warwick).

Further papers to be announced in early November.