Keynote Speakers
Professor Paul Kingsbury 
Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University
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Biography
Paul Kingsbury is Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University. He obtained a BA in Geography at Lampeter, University of Wales and a MA and PhD in geography at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include the psychoanalytic geographies of people’s lives in terms of the entanglements of the psyche and social, that is, collective modes of embodied doing, feeling, and thinking; aesthetic geographies of everyday life in terms of art’s capacity to infuse human experience with constructive meanings and affirmative power; and, most recently, the growth of paranormal investigation cultures through an ongoing 4-year SSHRC funded study of the lived (and dead) spaces of UFO, ghost, and Sasquatch/Bigfoot organizations in British Columbia and conferences in the USA, Canada, and UK. He is the co-editor of Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014, Routledge with Steve Pile) and Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music (2014, Routledge with Gavin Andrews and Robin Kearns), as well as articles on topics such as the FIFA World Cup, “support the troops” ribbon magnets, multicultural festivals, and masculine sexuation in submarine films (with Jesse Proudfoot).
Dr Catherine Robinson
E| catheriner@anglicare-tas.org.au
Social Research and Analysis, Social Action and Research Centre (SARC), Anglicare Tasmania Inc.
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Biography
Catherine returned to Tasmania and joined the Social Action and Research Centre (https://www.socialactionresearchcentre.org.au (opens in a new window)) after 13 years as an academic at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her key publications include Beside One’s Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived (Syracuse University Press) and (with Chris Chamberlain and Guy Johnson) Homelessness in Australia (NewSouth Publishing). She was Co-Editor of Emotion, Space and Society (2013-2015) and is also known for her collaboration with Blackfella Films on the SBS documentary series Filthy Rich and Homeless (2016-2018). Her current research and advocacy brings the emotional politics of vulnerability and social suffering together with the lived experiences of children who experience extreme adversity, including unaccompanied homelessness and complex trauma.
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