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Source: International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies CALL FOR SESSIONS/ CALL FOR PAPERSFourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies 1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen, The NetherlandsThe Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies will be held 1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, hosted by the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. After the success of the first three conferences (in Lancaster, UK, 2002; Kingston, Canada, 2006; and Adelaide, Australia, 2010), this fourth conference provides a forum for a range of people from different disciplinary backgrounds as well as societal partners and artists to creatively explore the role of emotion in thinking about and experiencing space and society.We are facing spatial and social transformations as a result of climate change, financial crises, geopolitical instabilities and digital revolutions, which evoke emotional responses. These events led Vermeulen and Van den Akker (2010) to introduce the concept of metamoderism; a “spacetime that is … neither ordered nor disordered” (p.12) and that is characterized by the oscillation “between a modern enthusiasm and a postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy, between naïveté and knowingness, empathy and apathy, unity and plurality, totality and fragmentation, purity and ambiguity” (p.5-6).We seek papers that investigate the multiplicity of spaces and places that produce and are produced by emotional and affective life, representing an inclusive range of theoretical and methodological engagements with emotion as a social, cultural and spatial phenomenon. Themes include but are not limited to: migration, landscapes, development, governance, arts, ageing, embodiment, cities, population decline, ruralities, wellbeing, real estate, non-human actors, memory, entrepreneurship, methods.Key note speakers:Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht)Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick)Divya Tolia-Kelly (Durham University)Deadlines:Deadline for session proposals: November 5th, 2012Deadline for abstracts: January 20th, 2013Contact:Email: emogeo@rug.nlFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/131405216997514/Website: http://www.rug.nl/frw/onderzoek/emospa/indexCalls for papers:Please note, the following sessions proposals have been approved. Where relevant, cfps can be found on Facebook and the conference website:- Love and migration (Karin Haandrikman and Maria Brandén, Stockholm University)- CFP-Depopulation and fatalism (Nina Conkova and Tialda Haartsen, University of Groningen)- CFP-Geographies of Desire (Alex Fanghanel (UCL) and Jason Lim (QMUL))- CFP-Riding through space: exploring motion and emotion on the back of a horse (Rhys Evans, Norwegian University College of Agriculture and Rural Development)- CFP- The Hometown in the Everyday:  Geographies of Nostalgia within Diasporic Populations (Anindita Datta, University of Delhi and Ajay Bailey, University of Groningen)- CFP-Entrepreneurship: motivation and place (Aleid Brouwer and Inge Noback, University of Groningen)- CFP-Absent Presences and Present Absences: Spectral, spiritual, and therapeutic spaces in research (Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh)·         -Exploring the emotion of alternative communities: theorizing new forms of communal organisation (Helen Jarvis, Newcastle University, United Kingdom; -Dallas Rogers, University of Western Sydney, Australia; Wendy Steele, Griffith University, Australia)- CFP