Taking Place

Lockpickers 104 Dick Pic Chairez intenta mantener sus problemas personales para si mismo, pero crea tension entre el grupo. Chairez tries to keep his trouble from the rest of the gang as…

Lockpickers 103 Casa chica (Love Shack) Ale tiene una crisis de identidad cuando los hombres a su alrededor la ven solamente como un objeto s*xual. Ale has an identity crisis when the men around her…

Lockpickers 102 Raquel Los Lockpickers discuten sobre s**o, relaciones y responsabilidad cuando entran a la casa de una exnovia de Zurdo. The Lockpickers discuss s*x, relationships…

Lockpickers 101 El Mu**to (Dead guy) Cap. 1 "El Mu**to" Los Lockpickers entran a la casa de un mu**to mientras discuten sus problemas de dinero. The Lockpickers gang enters a dead man's house…

El Gancho Canal de series independientes.

Programme 8:30 – 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.00 – 10.00 Opening keynote – Dr. Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge 10:00 – 11:30 Panel one: Expressions of Memory Chair: Dr Emma Hunter, Gonville and Caiu...

Please join us for the first Easter session of Taking Place (14 May).

Professor John Wylie (Exeter) will present "Eyeopener: geographies of light and shadow, near and far". Please find the details and the abstract below.

What can the practice of en plein air landscape drawing bring to cross-disciplinary understandings of spatiality, materiality and self-world relations? To address this question, this presentation will draw upon a year-long visual arts-based collaboration between myself and a contemporary fine artist (Catrin Webster). Our collaboration has involved a primary learning process (for me), ongoing professional practice (for Catrin), and extended conceptual conversation. After setting the scene for this collaboration, I will talk about the embodied skills and habits of visual and spatial apprehension which the incorporation of painterly practice affords. And I will use the exemplar of painting and drawing to elucidate a developing sense that distance and dislocation are distinctive elements of landscape as a mode of spatial experience, imagination and presentation.

14 May. at CRASSH, SG2, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT, at 5 pm.

Please join us this Wednesday, Feb. 19, for the third Lent session of Taking Place. Dr. Clare Hickman, Wellcome Fellow in Medical History and Humanities at King’s College London, will present "Therapeutic Landscapes: The use and design of gardens and the wider landscape by nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions in England." Please find the details and the abstract below.

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Large tracts of land surrounded nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions. This could be highly ornamental, agricultural or wooded in nature and was often a combination of all three. The elite private institutions reflected their domestic counterpart, the wealthy country house estate. Their gardens contained a wide range of ornamental features, from ornate thatched cottages to aviaries, and Gothic summerhouses to ornamental pagodas. Two famous examples of this type of elite institution, which will be explored in detail in this paper, are Ticehurst Place, Suss*x and Brislington House, Bristol. These were by no means typical of the type of pauper institution catering for the majority of those categorized as insane but their overt interest in the design of the gardens indicates the significance attached to the physical environment at the time.

Other institutional gardens that will be interrogated in this paper will explore in more depth issues of class, gender and the therapeutic approach. These are three nineteenth-century institutions based in Northampton – the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum for the Middle and Upper Classes, Abington Abbey Retreat, and Northampton County Asylum.

Within all these institutions, where the basis of moral therapy was the re-education of the mind, it seems likely that the superintendents consciously employed the external environment as a vital part of this process because of its perceived effect on the imagination and emotions. This paper will explore this close relationship between the landscape, the mind and the therapeutic approach as employed in the nineteenth-century asylum.

Please join us today for the second Lent session of Taking Place (5 Feb).

Dr. Aída Hernández (CIESAS/Simon Bolivar Chair CLAS, University of Cambridge) will present "Cross-Border Mobility and Transnational Spaces: Border Crossings amongst Mexican Indigenous People". Please find the details and the abstract below.

In this presentation I wish to open up an ethnographic window in order to take a look at the new cross-border realities experienced by thousands of indigenous people from Latin America. To dwell on the complexities and political potential of transnational and translocal identities I will consider the experience of the Mam, a Maya people from Mexico’s southeastern territory. The Mam people have undergone several migratory waves and border crossings in search of survival alternatives. This historical experience of continuous mobility through national, regional and religious borders has influenced their conceptions of community not necessarily moving beyond territory because, as we will see in this article, the references to place are always present in their narratives of identity. But we can say that they are holding on to notions of place in a complex yet tangible sense of ´here´ and ´there´.

5 Feb. at CRASSH, SG2, ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT, at 5 pm.