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TIM INGOLD
KEYNOTE
Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Following 25 years at the University of Manchester, where he was appointed Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology in 1995, Ingold moved in 1999 to Aberdeen, where he established the UK’s newest Department of Anthropology, as well as directing the University’s strategic research theme on ‘The North’ (2011-17). Ingold has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on comparative questions of environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, as well as on the role of animals in human society, on issues in human ecology, and on evolutionary theory in anthropology, biology and history. He has gone on to explore the links between environmental perception and skilled practice, with a view to replacing traditional models of genetic and cultural transmission with a relational approach focusing on the growth of bodily skills of perception and action within social and environmental contexts of development. These ideas are presented in his book The Perception of the Environment (2000), a collection of 23 essays written over the previous decade on the themes of livelihood, dwelling and skill. Ingold’s more recent research has pursued three lines of inquiry that emerged from his earlier work, concerning the dynamics of pedestrian movement, the creativity of practice, and the linearity of writing. These all came together in a project funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (2005-08), entitled ‘Explorations in the comparative anthropology of the line’, resulting in his book Lines (2007), along with three edited collections: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation (with Elizabeth Hallam, 2007), Ways of Walking (with Jo Lee Vergunst, 2008) and Redrawing Anthropology (2011), and in his further collected essays, Being Alive (2011). Ingold has gone on to write and teach on issues on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, leading to his books, Making (2013) and The Life of Lines (2015). He has directed the project ‘Knowing From the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design’ (2013-18), with funding from the European Research Council. Ingold’s books, Anthropology and/as Education and Anthropology: Why it Matters, were published in 2018, and Correspondences, in 2020. His latest volume of collected essays, Imagining for Real, appeared in 2022.
ANTÓNIA FIALHO CONDE
Antónia Fialho Conde (CIÊNCIA ID: 5811-DF13-3CD0; Scopus Author ID: 56001670400) is Professor at the Department of History of the University of Évora, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of History and Heritage. She is an integrated member of CIDEHUS, where she coordinates Research Group 2 - Heritage, Literacies and Cultural Diversity. Her research interests lie in the History of Portugal (modern period), in the History of female Cistercian monasticism, in Historical-Cultural Heritage and Material Culture (modern period), areas where she has published several works, directed and collaborated in nationally and internationally funded research projects, and supervised theses and dissertations. She is Director of the Master in Management and Enhancement of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the University of Évora and adjunct to the Master Erasmus Mundus TPTI (Téchniques, Patrimoine, Territoires de l'Industrie: Histoire, Valorization, Didactique - Universities of Évora, Paris 1- Sorbonne and Padua).
CHRISTOS ANTONIOS KAKALIS
Christos Antonios Kakalis is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape of Newcastle University. He is a registered architect (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece). He obtained the interdisciplinary MSc ‘Design, Space, Culture” at the National Technical University of Athens and holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on the conditions of embodied experience of the architecture and landscape with special emphasis on the role of atmosphere. The main focus of his doctoral and postdoctoral work (between UK and Canada) was the embodied topography of Mount Athos and the role of silence/sound in different environments: sacred landscapes, contemporary cities, institutional complexes as well as in architectural representation, design and education. Parts of this research have been published in the co-edited volume (with Mark Dorrian) The Place of Silence: Architecture / Media / Philosophy (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) and his monograph Architecture and Silence (Routledge, 2020). His current research involves the closer examination of place and identity in transnational religious communities in the UK and the US as well as issues of resilience and sustainability in the interchange between local and moving communities in Scotland.
DUNCAN BULLEN
Duncan Bullen is an artist and academic with a primary interest in drawing. He studied at Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design and then Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic in the mid-1980s, before completing his MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 1991. He was then a recipient of a Rome Scholarship, spending 1991-'92 at the British School at Rome. After this, he undertook a series of residencies at the Eremo di Santa Caterina, a former hermitage on the Italian island of Elba, where he held two exhibitions, Lumen in 1998 and Night Prayers in 2004.
Other residencies have included the Experimental Printmaking Institute, PA, USA in 2005, Art at Wharpuke, NZ 2011 and Gordon House, Margate 2018-19. Between 2010-20, Duncan collaborated with the composer Jamie Crofts (aka Jim Simm) on Chromatic Fields, first published as an artist book in 2011 and later as a box set CD/DVD, by ANTS records, Roma in 2020. He has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in many internationally recognised shows in the United Kingdom, United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
He works at the University of Brighton, where he is Associate Dean: Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Art and Media. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing and is a Higher Education Academy senior fellow. Duncan's research interests are grounded in the materiality of manual drawing. He is concerned with tactile, repetitive, reductive, non-representational drawing strategies, which he aligns with mindfulness meditation. Duncan is interested in how drawing mindfully may communicate spatially and physically to trace the immediacy of lived experience through tactile, sensory, and contemplative engagement with the world. He has presented papers at conferences and written about his practice-based research in book chapters and journal articles.
FILIPA PONTES
Filipa Pontes is a Portuguese visual artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts in Practice / Drawing (FBAUL, Lisbon, Portugal). Also, pursues a degree in Graphic Design (ESAD.CR, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal) and postgraduation in Creative Illustration (EINA, Barcelona, Spain). Filipa connects art practice with a socially engaged perspective grounded in reflexivity and a decolonial approach and works mainly in the drawing field to create performances, installations and artist books. Also works as an independent curator and as a professor. In the last ten years, she has been working internationally in countries such as Spain, Mozambique, Brazil, China, Norway and Germany. Currently lives between Berlin and Lisbon. On the website www.filipapontes.com, you can find more details about her recent projects.
JULIAN HOLLOWAY
Dr. Julian Holloway is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Natural Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has three principal research areas: geographies of religion, spirituality and the occult; geographies of sound and the sonic apprehension of space and place; and geographies of spectrality, haunting and monstrosity. Each of these research topics are connected by a theoretical interest in embodiment, practice, affect, materiality and more-than representational theories. He is currently writing and thinking about the sonics of Folk Horror and the 'strange' countryside.
KAROLINA DOUGHTY
Karolina Doughty is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Geography research group at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands. Her research interests are focused on the ways in which wellbeing manifests in everyday landscapes, and the different spatial relations with others and the environment that frame ideas of wellbeing. Under this broader umbrella her research has focused on the creation of ‘therapeutic landscapes’ through everyday embodied, sensory and emotional engagements with places, for example through walking. She also has a particular interest in matters of sound and sonic practices for relations with places, and in wellbeing practices more specifically, such as in experiences of stillness. Her work utilizes ethnographic, often participatory, and audio-visual modes of enquiry. She has published widely on therapeutic landscapes and geographies of sound, including the edited volume Sounding Places (2019).
MAARJA KAARISTO
Maarja Kaaristo, PhD, is Researcher in Tourism Mobilities at the Department of Marketing, Retail and Tourism, Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research interests include inland waterways, (mundane) mobilities, boating tourism, tourism practices, sensory experiences, transport tourism, place-making, material culture, spatial governance, and qualitative methodologies. She is the co-editor of the 2019 special issue of Anthropological Notebooks, ‘Dwelling on and with water – materialities, (im)mobilities and meanings’ (with Ben O. L. Bowles and Nataša Rogelja Caf) and the 2020 special issue of International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, ‘Travelling and travelled landscapes: Imaginations, Politics, and Mobilities of Tourism’ (with Steven Rhoden). She currently serves as Associate Editor of Consumer Behaviour in Tourism and Hospitality and Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
BAS VERSCHUUREN
Bas Verschuuren, PhD, is a lecturer and researcher at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy group at Wageningen University. He teaches and publishes on the political and ontological perspectives on conservation management and governance and recently completed his fifth edited volume bringing together 50+ authors around the theme of cultural and spiritual significance of nature in protected and conserved areas.
Bas is the co-chair to the IUCN WCPA Specialist group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of protected areas www.csvpa.org and co-founder of the Sacred Natural Sites Initiative www.sacrednaturalsites.org. Both organisations have a focus on making the sacred and spiritual dimensions of nature more central to mainstream nature conservation.
As an anthropologist with a background in environmental sciences Bas cocreates applied research on human nature relationships in and around protected areas, World Heritage sites as well as in indigenous and community-conserved areas. Bas is interested in human nature relationships and the motivations that drive people to conserve nature. He aims to improve our understanding of how multiple ontologies and relational values affect protected area management and global conservation governance.
Committed to social impact Bas applies his research to collaborative and applied outcomes such as IUCN Best Practice guidelines on the Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature meant for a diverse range of actors working on management and governance of protected areas.