Dr Paul Simpson

Reports & invited lectures

Invited Seminars, Key notes, and Panel contributions 

2017 ‘Creating (in)hospitable environments: Felt experiences of infrastructure and ambiance / atmospheres’. Invited Keynote presented at ‘In/Out: Designing Urban Inclusion’, Metro-Lab Brussels (27th January).

2015 Invited discussant for the sessions on ‘Producing Urban Life’ at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter (1-4th September).

2015 ‘The History of Street Music: “Music by handle” and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis’ Invited Lecture at Gresham College as part of the City of London Festival Lecture series (9th July). Audio presentation with slides available here: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-history-of-street-performance .

2015 ‘Performance, Mobilities, and the M6/M5/A38’. Keynote presented at the RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-term Conference, University of Sheffield, (26th March).

2014 'Spacing politics and methods in ambiance and atmospheres research: Listenings from St Pancras and Gare du Nord' Present at the HARC listening workshop, Royal Holloway, University of London (17th January).

2013 'Sound, ‘Ambiance’ and Securing Tranquility in Gare du Nord and St Pancras' Presented at the School of Environment, Education and Development (Geography), University of Manchester (20th November).

2013 ‘Street music and the city: bodies, rhythms, and performing in public spaces’. Presented at the Department of Music and Music Technology, Keele University (6th February).

2013 Invited panellist on the roundtable ‘Spatiality and Affect’ at ‘Creating worlds: The affective spaces of experimental politics’, Royal Holloway, London (14th January).

2011 'Materiality, Sociality and the Embodied Experience of (street) Performing'. Presented at the School of Geography, University of Exeter (1st December).

2011 'Ecologies of Performance'. Presented at the Technological Natures Research Cluster at the School of Geography, University of Oxford (21st November).

2010 ‘Theatre without separation: the presencing of self and other’. Presented at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University (3rd March). Podcast available at: http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/media/paul-simpson-talk

Conference Papers

2016 ‘Post-phenomenological Methodologies: Attunements and experiences’ (with James Ash). Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2016, London (30th August – 2nd September) in the session ‘Post-phenomenological Geographies: methods and styles of researching and writing the human: Subjects’.

2015 ‘Introducing Ambiant and Atmospheric Geographies’ (with Rainer Kazig and Damien Masson). Presented at the AAG Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago (21st- 25th April) in the session ‘Ambient and Atmospheric Geographies 1: Conceiving’.

2013 ‘Ambiance and Atmospheres’ (with Peter Adey). Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London (28th-30th August) in the session ‘Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers’.

2013 ‘Immunizing the self from others: community, intersubjectivity, and the disturbance of the munus’. Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London (28th-30th August) in the session ‘Immunitary Geographies: Subjectivities and Agencies’.

2012 ‘Geography and Postphenomenology’ (with James Ash) Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, Edinburgh (3rd-5th July), in the session ‘Postphenomenological Geographies’.

2011 ‘'So, as you can see...' Some reflections on the utility of video methodologies in the study of embodied practices'. Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011, London (31-2nd September), in the session ‘Sensory video and the embodied spaces of film and video’. 

2011 'What remains of the intersubjective?: on the presencing of self and other'. Presented at the IVth Nordic Geographers Meeting, Roskilde (24-27th May), in the track 'Human Remains: the place of the human in a post-human world'.

2010 ‘Legislating street performance: responses to the street music problem in Victorian London’. Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, London (1-3rd September), in the session ‘Urban Subversions: Conceptualising alternative urban pastimes in the modern World City’.

2010 ‘On seeking stability in the street: Street performing and territoriality’. Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, London (1-3rd September), in the session ‘Living on the Move: Finding and Maintaining Stability Through Movement’.

2010 ‘The spatiality of performance: materiality, affect, and the embodied experience of street performing’. Presented at the AAG Annual Conference 2010, Washington DC (14-18th April), in the session ‘Embodied methodologies: using the body as a research instrument’.

2009 ‘The affection of the object: a post-phenomenology of a glance and becoming aware’. Presented at ‘Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice’, The Royal Institute for British Architects, London, (9-11th July).

2009 ‘Theatre without separation: or, on saying “I love you” to a street performer’. Presented at ‘Living Landscapes: An International Conference on performance, landscape, and environment’, Aberystwyth University, (June 18-21st), in the panel ‘Landscapes of Encounter’.

2009 ‘Theatre without separation: or, on saying ‘I love you’ to a street performer’. Presented at the AAG Annual Conference 2009, Las Vegas (22-27th March), in the session ‘The Limits of the Body’.

2009 (co-written with Sebastian Abrahamsson) ‘Introducing the Limits of the Body’. Presented at the AAG Annual Conference 2009, Las Vegas (22-27th March), in the session ‘The Limits of the Body’

2008 ‘The affection of the object: a post-phenomenology of a glance and becoming aware’. Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008, London (26-29th August), in the session ‘Non-representational Geographies: implications’.

2008 ‘“Falling on Deaf Ears”: A post-phenomenology of sonorous presence’. Presented at the AAG Annual Conference 2008, Boston (15-19th April), in the session ‘Non-representational Geographies: Performances’.

2007 ‘Chronic Everyday Life: Rhythmanalysing Street Performance’ Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2007, London (29-31st August), in the session ‘Lively non-human temporalities’.

2007 ‘Towards an Ecology of Street Performance’. Presented at the Wessex Postgraduate Consortium Meeting, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park (16-18th April).

2007 ‘Doing Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis in Covent Garden, London. Presented at ‘Doing Theory’, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol (16th February).

2006 '"And then you get a microphone in the teeth": Conflict and Creativity in the Performance of Blues Music in Glasgow'. Presented at 'Creativity: the word, the concept, and practice', School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol (3rd February). 

Conferences organised

Events and Session Convened:

‘Post-phenomenological Geographies: methods and styles of researching and writing the human: Subjects/Objects/Matters’ 2 paper sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2016, London (30th August – 2nd September) – co-organized with James Ash, Newcastle University.

‘‘Ambiances, Tomorrow’: 3rd International Congress on Ambiances’. Volos, Greece (21st-24th September 2016) – theme development and member of the ‘Scientific Committee’.

‘Researching and Representing Ambiant and Atmospheric Geographies’ 3 paper sessions at the AAG Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago (21-25th April) – co-organized with Damien Mason, Cergy Pontoise and Rainer Kazig, CRESSON.

‘Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers’ 3 paper sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London (28th-30th August) – co-organized with Peter Adey, RHUL and Damien Masson, Cergy Pontoise.

‘Ambiance and Atmosphere in Translation’ 3-day conference, London. (25th-27th February 2013) – co-organized with Peter Adey, RHUL, Damien Masson, Cergy Pontoise, and Rachel Thomas, CRESSON, Grenoble.

‘Postphenomenological Geographies’ paper session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, Edinburgh (3rd-5th July) – co-organized with James Ash, Northumbria University.

‘Performative Imaginations, Cultural Formations and Political Subjectivities’ paper session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011, London (31st August-2nd September) – co-organized with JD Dewsbury, University of Bristol.

‘The Philosophical work of Alain Badiou and its political ramifications’, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol (6th May 2009) – co-organized alongside the Philosophy of Social Science Research Group, University of Bristol.

‘The Limits of the Body’ 2 paper sessions at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2009, Las Vegas (22-27th March) – co-organized with Sebastian Abrahamsson, University of Amsterdam.

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