Historical Geographies of Home:
domestic space and practice in the past
Session for the 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers
5 – 10 July 2015
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
London
Session convenors:
Alison Blunt (Queen Mary, University of London)
Eleanor John (The Geffrye Museum of the Home)
Alastair Owens (Queen Mary, University of London)
Centre for Studies of Home
www.studiesofhome.qmul.ac.uk
Convened by the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership between Queen Mary, University of
London and The Geffrye Museum of the Home, this session will draw on diverse historical sources
and methods to explore domestic space and practice in the past. It will span home-making on a
domestic scale (including everyday domestic life, domestic architecture, interior design and
domestic material cultures) to the significance of home beyond the domestic (including broader
ideas about dwelling, belonging and security). Bringing together papers about homes in different
places and at different times, the session will also highlight collaborative work between academics,
curators and other colleagues working in the arts, cultural and heritage sectors. The session will be
followed by a fieldtrip to The Geffrye Museum of the Home on 8 July 2015.
Papers are particularly invited that relate to the following themes:
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Domestic materialities in the past
Past homes and the wider world
Spaces and practices within the domestic interior
Home-making, mobility and migration
Paid and unpaid domestic work
Home, memory and the lifecourse
The spatial politics of home
Home and heritage
Curating past homes
Please send abstracts of 200 words to Jacqueline Winston-Silk (JWinston-Silk@geffryemuseum.org.uk) by Friday 11 July 2014.
For more information about the conference, see: www.ichg2015.org/