The Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography (4WCoP) 2024

Friday 6 - Sunday 8 September, Old Sessions House, North Holmes Road campus and online via Microsoft Teams

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.

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.

Programme

Friday 6 September: a programme of installations, walk scores, presentations, a workshop and short film screening, all at Old Sessions House.

Saturday 7 September: a programme of walks, workshops, walk scores, readings and performances, at venues in Canterbury.

Sunday 8 September: walks and informal gatherings in Canterbury in the morning.

The full programme can be viewed on the Events hub, and will be emailed to all ticket holders, along with other useful information, a few days prior to the event.

Booking

Tickets are free, though booking is encouraged. Attendees will be able to sign up for different events on the day.

Technical support

If you have any questions about the event, or if you have any technical issues if attending online, please email [email protected]. The links to attend online can be found on your e-ticket. Please test these promptly so that we can remedy any problems before the event starts.