Abstract
The conference responds to the recent return of phenomenological perspectives in literary and cultural criticism, and in the field of spatiality in particular. We will explore the relationships between individual (sensory, embodied, lived) responses to space and cultural or socio-political horizons, with a special focus on perspectives that discuss the experience of space as shifting, unstable and multilayered.
56 speakers from all over the world will talk on issues as diverse as refugee spaces, liminal experiences in the Antarctic, the poetics and politics of water, the experience of digital spaces, or the negotiations of public space by street food vendors in Zurich and Malaysia. There will also be a special artists' panel on "City Art and the Politics of Space," which will take place at the Viadukt in Zürich West (Sat 26 Nov, 7 pm).