Conferences, Seminars, Symposia

With a focus on walking – or walking-related content. The listings on this page have an academic focus – though some festivals and other group events are included. To promote individual walks, artworks, projects and performances please send information to the WAN mailing list email: wan@jiscmail.ac.uk

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12th-16th July 2021, IFTR 2021: Theatre Ecologies: Environments, Sustainability, and Politics, Galway, Ireland

4th-11th July 2021, Walking as a question – Walking Arts Encounters / Conference, Prespa, Greece

23rd June 2021, Dark Wandering: An Evening On Walking In Relation To Darkness, The Netherlands, online event.

1st – 1st October 2020, Comment Les Sentiers Fabriquent La Ville, Paris, France

20th September 2020, Walking Beyond Borders – walking arts before and after the pandemic. Between Prespes 2019 and 2020, London, UK

17th – 19th September 2020, Walking Otherwise – On the ground, Festival and Conference, London, UK

14th -18th September 2020, Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, online

29th July 2020, Walking as a Political Gesture, online

22nd – 24th July 2020, Drifting Bodies/Fluent Spaces, Guimarães, Portugal

23rd June 2020, Walk Listen Cafe – long journeys in short distances, online

10th June 2020, Art Explorations on line – Vauxhall and Battersea, London, UK

4th – 7th June 2020, Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, London, UK

2020, Call for Expressions of Interest: Walking, Art & Future Tech Conference, London, UK

1st – 3rd November 2019, Walking’s New Movements, University Of Plymouth, UK

5th – 6th September 2019, Thinking on the Move: the possibilities and risks of walking sociologically, Goldsmiths, London, UK

10th – 12th July 2019, Wandering Games Conference, Bangor University, UK

1st – 4th July 2019, Walking Encounters, Prespa, Greece

19th – 21st June 2019, Evolving the Forest, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK

15th – 18th May 2019, Urban Creativity Conference, Lund University, Sweden

25 January 2019, Planning 2052, London, UK

8th – 10th November 2018, Perspectives on Digital Interactivity and Narrative in Performing Arts and VR, Budapest, Hungary

22nd September 2018, Rethinking the Legacy 1968, Stratford, London, UK

28th – 31st August 2018, Desire Lines, Dawdles and Drifts: Walking Together As Research Tool, Cardiff Wales

22nd – 23rd February 2018, Critical Practice in an Age of Complexity, University Of Arizona, Tucson

19th – 22nd September 2018, Walk 21 Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

17th February 2017, Radical Walking: protest, dissent, and crossing urban boundaries, Senate House, London, UK

9th -10th September 2016 Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography, Huddersfield, UK

7th – 8th May 2016, Forum on the Art of Participation, University of Kent, UK

23rd March 2016, Step by Step 4, UEL, UK

23rd February 2016, Taking it to the Streets: Empowering Interactions with the Urban Environment, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

26th May 2015, Walking Studies Today, Keele University UK

20th May 2015, Step by Step (3), UEL, UK

16th April 2015, Where to? The future of walking arts, Falmouth University, UK

16th March 2015, Step by Step (2), UEL, UK

21st – 23rd January 2015, The Intricacy of Walking in the City: Methods and Experiments, Paris-Marne la Vallée

17th December 2014, Step by Step, UEL, UK

24th – 25th October 2014, Of the Earth, University of Plymouth, UK.

18 October, 2014, De la Marche, Biennale de Bellville, Paris.

9th -11th October 2013, The Art of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

11th-13th September 2013, Walk 21, Munich, Germany

9th – 11th August 2012, Room to Roam, Huntly, Scotland

19th July 2013, Performing Landscapes and Identities, University of East London

12th July 2013, Softening the Urban Fabric: Cities, Encounters, Subjectivities, Change, University of East London

28th/29th June 2013, On Walking, University of Sunderland, UK

1st June 2013, Performing Place Symposium, Chichester University, UK

April 2013, 3rd International Research Forum on Guided Tours, NHTV, the University of Applied Sciences, Breda, the Netherlands

April 2013, Walking, Journeys & Knowledge, motiroti, Cass Business School, London

August – September 2012, Sideways, Belgium

15th June 2012, One Day in the City, The UCL Festival of London and Literature, UCL, London

31 May and 7 June 2012, La Génie de la Marche: Poétique, Savoirs et Politique des Corps Mobiles, de l’Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement, Paris.

15th March – 1st April 2012, Still Walking, Birmingham, A multi-themed Walking Event in Birmingham bridging the film festival and arts festival (Fierce and Flatpack).

4 March 2012 2pm, Walkscape: Art and Footwork, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA

6 August – 18 September 2011, ENCOUNTERS, Journeys through Language and Landscape, artworks and artist led walks along a 3 mile route between Fermyn Woods Country Park and Lyveden New Bield in Northamptonshire.

July 28 – 31 2011, The Long Walk: 60 people, 8 commissioned artists, 4 days, 45+ miles, Puget Sound to Snoqualmie Falls

July 30th 2011, walkie-talkie, mobile symposium, Chelsea Theatre, London

July 28th 2011, Critical Dialogues on Walking, Art, Landskip, Knowledge – a one-day symposium at the Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

April 2011, The International Guided Tours Research Forum at the University of Plymouth

June 2010, Emerging Landscapes, University of Westminster

June 2009, Living Landscapes, Aberystwyth University

October 2008, The Hidden City symposium at Plymouth University

October 2008,  Steirischer Herbst, Graz Austria

March 2008, Roam a weekend of walking at Loughborough University

2007-8, SenseScapes seminar series, University of Manchester & University of Salford

September 2007, The Printed Path: Landscape, Walking and Recollection, Tate Britain,

September – November 2007, Walking and Art, Banff Centre residency

Spring 2005, Walking as Knowing as Making, University of Illinois

September 2005, Everyday Walking Culture: The Sixth International Conference on Walking, Zürich,