Latest Update, see below the message from the Organisers, 24 April 2006.
Welcome to the Participants and discussants in Panel:
“Spirit of Place (genius loci), Landscape and Place Ballet”
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International Conference:Space,Haunting,Discourse
Karlstad University, SWEDEN. 15-18 June, 2006<br>
Conference organizers: Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö<br>
E-mail: , <br>
Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, Department of English,
SE- 651 88 Karlstad. SWEDEN. <br>
Fax: + 46 54 700 14 32<br<br>
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Preliminary Programme:
Thursday, 15 June
12:00-14:00 Registration
14:00-14:30 Welcome
14:30-16:00 Plenary: Gillian Rose, Cultural Geography, Open University, UK
16:00-16:30 coffee
16:30-18:00 Parallel sessions
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Session: Friday, 16 June 2005: 11.00 – 12.30hrs <br>
Panel: “Spirit of Place (genius loci), Landscape and Place Ballet”
Session organizers: Rana P. B. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and
Gerhard Gustafsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
1 * Ravi S. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India:
“People and Partition: A Literary Geographic Narrative of Rahi Masoom Raza’s Adha Gaon and Bhishma Sahni’s Tamas”
2 * Rana P. B. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India:
“The Place-Ballet of Banaras as portrait in Kashinath Singh’s novel Assi of Kashi”
3 * Jamie S. Scott, York University, Canada:
“I Alone Exist Here in the World’: Nanda Devi in Text and Context”
4 * Martin J. Haigh, Oxford Brookes University, UK:
“Seeds in the Forest: Exploring the Undergrowth of the New Ecological Age”
12:30-13:30 lunch
13:30-15:00 Plenary: Charles Lock, English Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
15:00-15:30 coffee
15:30-17:00 Parallel sessions
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Panel Organisers: (i) Prof. Rana P. B. Singh,
[During 18 May to 19 June '6 Rana will be a Visiting Faculty at Karlstadt University, Sweden; work with Gerhard Gustafsson]
(ii) Prof. Gerhard Gustafsson,
Dear participants in "Space, Haunting, Discourse,"
All participants - including session organizers, chairs and people who present in the sessions - have to register and pay the conference fee. We have kept the conference fee - which includes the reception, two lunches, and the dinner on Saturday, among other things - low in order to give everybody a chance to attend the conference: EUR 110 /SEK 1000 (EUR 77/SEK 700 for graduate/doctoral students). The conference hotels offer conference participants inexpensive rates. To register, please complete the on-line registration form on the conference homepage: The last date to register is 15 May, 2006, after which we will remove unregistered delegates from the conference program and post an updated program. ("Sessions" are continually updated.)
Hotel reservation
The Conference Administration will make all hotel reservation according to the requests made on the web registration form. The hotels listed below offer reduced rates for conference delegates. Payment is to be settled directly with the hotels, which honour all major credit cards. For further information about the hotels, see or for maps of the city
The quoted prices are for single/double rooms per night and include breakfast and VAT.
Elite Stadshotellet. Rate per night: SEK 832/1073
Ibis Hotel Accor. Rate per night: SEK 640/695
For questions regarding hotel reservations, contact the Conference Administration,
All rooms that will be used for the different sessions at Karlstad University are equipped with an OH projector and a TV set with a VCR. (However, they are not equipped with computer, LCD-projector, and Internet access, for instance. This type of equipment can be arranged on request.) Note that North-American videotapes are not compatible with European video recorders, but need to be converted into the European format. There might be problems with other non-European videotapes and DVDs, too. Participants who would like to use electronic equipment for a presentation, or have any questions related to electronic equipment and support, should contact Maria Wåhlström Bäcke as soon as possible:
We hope to see you in Karlstad in June!
Sincerely,
Maria Holmgren Troy and Elisabeth Wennö, conference organizers
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it", thus said Albert Einstein.
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Prof. Dr. RANA P. B. SINGH
Professor of Cultural Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. I N D I A.
[ Founding President: Society of Heritage Planning and Environmental Health; & Founding President:
Society of Pilgrimage Studies; & Founding President: Indo-Nordic Cultural Association, INCA ]
Member, South Asia, IGU Initiative: Cultures and Civilizations for Human Development
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