Welcome
This year's event will run between 6-8 September 2024.
This year's Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography is hosted in the historic city of Canterbury. Our theme for the congress is ‘heritage and hiraeth’.
Heritage (attributive): Characterized by or pertaining to the preservation or exploitation of local and national features of historical, cultural, or scenic interest, esp. as tourist attractions.
Hiraeth (Welsh English): deep longing for a person or thing which is absent or lost; yearning; nostalgia; spec. homesickness.
Through a series of presentations, films, walks, walk scores, provocations, performances and workshops, the congress will explore the concepts of heritage and hiraeth. Expect to experience creative and critical responses to place-based nostalgia, psychogeographical approaches to heritage, sites of hauntings and longings, pilgrimage and site-specific (be)quests.
This year's Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography is hosted in the historic city of Canterbury. Our theme for the congress is ‘heritage and hiraeth’.
Heritage (attributive): Characterized by or pertaining to the preservation or exploitation of local and national features of historical, cultural, or scenic interest, esp. as tourist attractions.
Hiraeth (Welsh English): deep longing for a person or thing which is absent or lost; yearning; nostalgia; spec. homesickness.
Through a series of presentations, films, walks, walk scores, provocations, performances and workshops, the congress will explore the concepts of heritage and hiraeth. Expect to experience creative and critical responses to place-based nostalgia, psychogeographical approaches to heritage, sites of hauntings and longings, pilgrimage and site-specific (be)quests.
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Thanks to financial support from Canterbury Christ Church University, our events we will take place in the footprint of a UNESCO World Heritage site, with the option for those unable to join us in geographical space to be with us virtually for parts of Friday's programme. |
