Ryan Lewis, University of Dundee, uses readings of Bergsonian/Deleuzian philosophies of becoming/difference and with a view toward Kandinskian theories of abstraction, presents a conceptual account of art claiming that it is the temporal and qualitative nature of art which is the force of its indefinite and inexhaustible abstraction.

Vanja Malloy of the Courthauld Institute of Art, speaking on Understanding the Fourth Dimension: Physical and Imaginary Space in Avant-garde Art at the Spaces of (dis)Location conference organised by Philosophy postgraduates at the University of Glasgow May 2012.

Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta, Canada, delivered a keynote address at the Spaces of (dis)Location conference. Professor Zackodnick studies many aspects of American Literature including African American literature, Asian American fiction and black feminisms.

Dr Bashabi Fraser, Edinburgh Napier University, delivered a keynote address at the Spaces of (dis)Location conference. Dr Fraser specialises in postcolonial literature and theory with a particular interest in diasporic themes.

Rebecca Birch, Loughborough University, proposes the car as a vessel for a dialogical and site-responsive artwork, in which the work is the act of ‘being with’ another in a shared encounter in space and time.

Maryam Mirsepassi,University of Carleton (Ottawa, Canada), speaking on the metaphorical qualities of imaginary space which opens the door to our human understanding.