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IGU-Commission “The Cultural Approach in Geography“
Workshop at the Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography
Leipzig, June 23-25, 2005
Geographies and the Media
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Program
13.15h BENNO WERLEN (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena) and UTE WARDENGA
(Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography, Leipzig):
Introduction
13.40h TILO FELGENHAUER, STEFANIE LENK, MANDY MIHM and ANTJE SCHLOTTMANN,
(Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena):
No Place like “Mitteldeutschland“. On Symbolic Regionalization in Media
Content and Everyday Communication
14.20h FRIEDERIKE MEYER ZU SCHWABEDISSEN and MONIKA MICHEEL (Leibniz Institute
of Regional Geography, Leipzig):
Making a Location by Spatial Representations. Language and the
Production of Place
15.00h RUBEN C. LOIS-GONZALEZ (University of Santiago de Compostela) and LUIS
ALFONSO ESCUDERO-GOMEZ (University of Castilla-La Mancha):
The Mass Media and the Creation of Territorial Images and Identities:
the Regional Representation of Spain in Daily Newspapers
15.40h Coffee break
16.10h BIRGIT STÖBER (Copenhagen Business School):
Brand New Space – the Role of Mass Media in Buildung New Spaces
16.50h ANKE STRÜVER (University of Münster):
Representations of the Dutch-German Border: The Borderspace in the
Media and in People’s Minds

17.30h TINE BÉNEKER AND BOUKE VAN GORP (Utrecht University):
Holland – Tourist Representations of the Netherlands
18.10h PAUL REUBER, ANKE STRÜVER and GÜNTER WOLKERSDORFER (University of
Münster):
Spatialising Terrorism and its Media Representations
19.15h Dinner
Friday, June 24, 2005
9.00h JUDITH MIGGELBRINK (Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography, Leipzig):
Geographic Visiotypes
9.40h ANNE VOLVEY (Artois University):
The Christos’ Exhibitions Strategy: a Media Issue in the Context of
Outdoors Practices
10.20h ANTJE SCHLOTTMANN (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena):
„Discover – Explore – Conquer“. Nature, Culture and the Body in the
Advertising of a Growing Outdoor-Industry
11.00h Coffee break
11.30h ELSA VIEILLARD-BARON (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon):
Caricature of Scapegoats in Environmental Disasters
12.10h PETER DÖRRENBÄCHER (Saarland University, Saarbrücken):
Regional Self-Government and Resource-Co-Management as
Transcultural Processes: The Role of Regulative Communication Media
12.50h Lunch
14.00h STEFAN GÜNZEL (Berlin):
Virtual Geography: Construction of Space in First-Person-Shooter
Computer Games
14.40h KLAUS DODDS (Royal Holloway, University of London):
Consumption and Popular Geopolitics: James Bond and the Internet
Movie Data Base
15.20h ANA FRANCISCA AZEVEDO (Universidade do Minho):
Silencing the Land: Portuguese Cinema of the Silent Period
16.00h Coffee break
16.30h STEFAN ZIMMERMANN (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz):
Possible Ways to Geographic Research on Film

17.10h STEFANIE SCHIMO (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz):
Films in Geography
Saturday, June 25, 2005
9.00h AMIRAM GONEN (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and ELI AVRAHAM
(University of Haifa):
Geographical Strategies in Place Marketing: The Israeli Case
9.40h ELI AVRAHAM (University of Haifa):
Places and their News Media Images: Towards an Integrated Model
10.20h Coffee break
10.50h SYBILLE BAURIEDL (University of Hamburg):
Identifying Discursive Events within Urban Politics
11.30h STELLA SCHMID (Berlin):
“Reprieve for an asbestos-dead body” – Discursive Construction of
Urban Images: the Palace of the Republic in Berlin
12.10h BASTIAN LANGE (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt / M):
Culturepreneurs in Berlin: Place Makers within Landscapes of Cultural
Economic Scenes
13.00h Lunch
14.00h Final discussion
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Conference venue:
Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography
Schongauerstr. 9
04329 Leipzig
Germany
Directions and map:
www.ifl-leipzig.com
Conference Fee:
The conference fee will be 35 Euro and includes conference documentation, copy of
abstracts, tea, coffee and cookies during all conference, dinner on Thursday, 23 rd ,
and lunch on Friday and Saturday, 24 th and 25 th . We kindly ask the participants to
pay the fee during the conference at the registration office.

Accomodation:
We reserved a sufficient number of rooms at the Hotel Garni, Gerichtsweg 12, 04103
Leipzig, Tel. +49 (0) 341 12780. We would like to ask all German participants to
directly get in touch with the Hotel and refer to the reservation-headword “IGU-
Kulturgeographie”. A single room including breakfast will be around 50 Euro per
night. All participants from other countries are asked to get in touch with Bernd
Adamek-Schyma (see contact details below) and inform us about your arrival and
departure dates. We will then arrange the accommodation for you.
Registration deadline for guests:
For optimal planning we kindly ask all persons who are NOT going to present a paper
and who would like to attend the conference as guests and discussants to register
not later than June 1, 2005 with:
Contact:
Bernd Adamek-Schyma
Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography
Schongauerstr. 9
04329 Leipzig
Germany
Tel.: + 49 (0) 341 255 6562
E_Mail: bas@ifl-leipzig.de
www.ifl-leipzig.com
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