Final call - BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures
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The final call for papers for the international conference 'BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures', closes on 27th February.
To submit your 300 word abstract, please visit our conference website www.bridgeconference.wordpress.com
About:
The conference will take place at the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site (UK) and seeks to explore the heritage of bridges as:
- remarkable physical structures that connect places and cultures
- spectacular feats of engineering, connecting an industrialised world
- symbolic and metaphorical markers in the landscape, romanticised in art, literature and film
To see the full call for papers visit: https://bridgeconference.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
Indicative themes include:
- Communities united and communities divided by bridges
- The language of the bridge – metaphors and meanings in social life
- Poetics of the bridge – representing the bridge in art, literature and film
- Narratives of bridge construction and destruction
- The materials and technologies of bridges – the heritage of form and function
- National and local iconographies of bridges
- Love and death on the bridge
- Touring bridges – travel narratives and tourism economies
- Alternative bridge crossings – tunnels and ferries
To submit a 300 word abstract, please visit our website www.bridgeconference.wordpress.com
Look forward to hearing from you!
Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage
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