Challenging Power in Place Symposium

Place has been predominantly conceptualized in binaries such as (sub)urban/rural, nation/state, local/global, among others. Narratives of place have privileged the stories of men, elites, majorities and the wealthy in a process that renders certain places visible and invisible. The Institute for Humanities Research 2018–19 Faculty Fellows invite you to this two-day symposium that will speak to the complicated dynamics of place through various activities and conversations with community members, public scholars and speakers from different fields.

The program is intentionally organized to disrupt a typical conference format through experiential encounters with place. In addition to presentations and conversations, two walking tours will become spatial encounters that reveal hidden histories and challenge conventional narratives of spatial experiences and research methodologies. Together, these events propose that public scholarship must be in relationship with communities past and present while also being deeply embedded in place.

The Spatializing Experience walk will be held at Steele Indian School Park, and the ASU Latinx Walking Tour will convene at Ross-Blakley Hall 196. 

Challenging Power in Place is organized by the Institute for Humanities Research 2018–19 Faculty Fellows Monica De La Torre, Angela Gonzales, Aaron Moore, Indulata Prasad, Johanna Taylor and Myla Vicenti.