On Home as a domestic space and as the articulation of fundamental fantasies of space, memory and identity. The conference examines how the category Home works as a point of political reference and mobilization, and considers the dangers of overinvestment in this category, both at the level of the city and in terms of fuelling political conflict.Emma Clery gives a talk entitled Carceral Economy: The Locked Door in the Domestic Novel, examining the literary history of space and gender in relation to recurring 'carceral' settings found in the eighteenth century novel (with particular reference to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa).