Registrations now open for AAANZ 2014 ‘GEOCritical’ (Launceston, December 2014)

GeoCriticalAAANZ_LOGORegistrations for the 2014 AAANZ conference GEOcritical, being held in Launceston, Tasmania 5-7 December with an optional day in Hobart 8 December, are now open! Registration covers the full program, including all keynote lectures, lunches, entry to all evening events and the occasional bar token as well. Registrants should read the Hobart Optional Day document before finalising their plans.

To register with TryBooking follow this link: http://www.trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=96970

Early bird registration closes on 7 November 2014, so make sure to finalise your plans soon.

Bookings for the postgrad masterclasses are still open – details here.

A full program is available here (word doc).

Keynote Speakers 
Jeff MalpasDistinguished Professor, University of Tasmania
Marian Pastor RocesCurator and Critic, Philippines
Amanda RavetzAnthropologist and Artist, Manchester School of Art, UK

The conference is hosted by the Tasmanian College of the Arts (TCotA) and the School of Architecture and Design (University of Tasmania) and the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston. The program comprises postgraduate workshops, exhibitions and paper presentations and offers an optional Hobart day on 8th December, including a visit to MONA followed by the final keynote at TCoTA’s waterfront campus.

GEOcritical aims to open and extend discussions that recognise issues driving contemporary practitioners/ researchers working in particular grounded and located environments yet with a global context. The critical role of place in making and thinking, together with the place of critique in reflecting on location are the starting points for considering what might be GEOcritical.

Further info
http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/conference_2014/
www.facebook.com/GEOcritical
Helene Weeding: hweeding@utas.edu.au