Category: Conferences

The RGS has now published its call for sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012 which takes place at the University of Edinburgh from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 July 2012. The chair of conference is Professor Chris Philo (University of Glasgow). The conference theme is ‘Security of Geography/Geography of Security’.

 

General Information

Space constraints mean the RGS/IBG annual conference in Edinburgh will be smaller than in past years. The RGS organisers have therefore decided to place the following temporary constraints on the 2012 conference:

• an individual may not normally make more than two substantive contributions to the conference programme (this includes paper presentation, panel member, discussant);
• a session may not normally occupy more than two timeslots in the conference programme;
• a Research Group may only sponsor sessions up to a total of 12 timeslots across the conference programme, including sole and joint sponsored sessions;
• Skype or other distance presentations cannot be supported at AC2012

For more details see www.rgs.org/AC2012Participation

 

SCGRG sponsorship

The SCGRG is looking to sponsor 12 high quality and innovative sessions across the range of work in social and cultural geography. Sponsorship can help brand your session in the conference programme, allow us to promote the session through our communication networks, and enable you to apply for one of our 6 Research Group guest passes.

We would like to suggest the smaller number of SCGRG sessions at the conference will be a positive opportunity to build discussions within and across this community of researchers.  There will be no social and cultural geography sponsored slots scheduled against each other.  We are thus asking session proposals to consider intellectual themes, innovative formats and substantive topics that will be of maximum interest across the SCGRG membership.  We are looking to sponsor a number of sessions that speak directly to the conference theme.  We are also interested in other high quality contributions to contemporary research in social and cultural geography.  We would encourage all members to explore innovative ways of making use of the space and time available in sessions.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal for sponsorship from the SCGRG, please use this form to send us the details of your session.  The deadline for submissions is 21.11.11. committee will review the applications as promptly as possible after this date.

The SCGRG is a large group and each year we receive more proposals than we can support.  Given the additional pressures this year, we’d encourage you to explore the full range of research groups which are accepting proposals, and also remind you there is a process of submitting sessions outside of research group sponsorship.

We look forward to your ideas for sessions and we’ll be posting more SCGRG plans for pre-conference activities here soon.

Gail Davies and Russell Hitchings

 

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011: Call for SCGRG Sponsored Sessions

• Location: RGS-IBG London
• Dates: 31st Aug – 2nd Sept 2010
• Conference theme: The Geographical Imagination

Visualisation, mapping, environmental reconstruction, landscape symbolism, terrain modelling, place picturing, virtual worlds, visionary worlds, cultural ecologies, climatic scenarios, patterned ground, sites of representation, image making, theory building, field observation…so many subjects and methods, topics and technologies, across the broad spectrum of geography, are powerfully shaped by a geographical imagination. The conference will explore many dimensions of the geographical imagination, including its histories and futures, meanings and materials, pleasures and politics, practices and effects. We welcome sessions and papers on the place of the imagination in geography’s many fields of enquiry, including multi-disciplinary fields within and beyond geography, and those which engage with a wider public.

Call for SCGRG sponsored sessions

We would like to invite proposals for Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) sponsored sessions. As a large research group we are looking to sponsor a number of sessions at the RGS this year that showcase the diversity and vitality of current social and cultural geography and, ideally, relate to the conference theme. Research group sponsorship can help guarantee you get the right audience for your sessions and ensure there are no timetabling clashes with other sessions likely to interest similar people.

Proposals for sponsored sessions should be submitted to the SCGRG by 26th November 2010. Proposals should be of no more than one page, outlining the topic, its connection to current concerns in social and cultural geography, the format of the session (paper sessions or otherwise) and the number of anticipated slots required. Click here for further information about RGS-IBG 2011. For queries or to submit a proposal please contact Russell Hitchings (SCGRG Secretary) at r.hitchings@ucl.ac.uk.

The RGS is asking research groups to help them choose the location for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012.  Due to the London Olympics (25 July – 11 September 2012) it is not feasible to host AC2012 in London.  Several other locations around the UK are also fully booked with Olympic-related and other events taking place.  A shortlist of 5 locations and dates for the AC2012 conference has been drawn up.  Research Groups and their members are invited to vote here: www.rgs.org/AC2012vote. Voting closes: Friday 29 October 2010.

The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group are organizing a conference and workshops on ‘Geography and the New Empirics’.  The event is on the 20th-21st January 2011, and will be hosted by UCL and The Royal Geographical Society, London.

In an intellectual context that celebrates uncertainty, complexity and multiplicity, this workshop engages with the practicalities and demands that these ideas place on the doing and dissemination of research.  We aim to bring together post-graduates and early career researchers from across social and cultural geography to engage with ideas of the empirical and to share the issues and challenges of research in this contemporary context.

The workshop begins on the afternoon of Thursday 20th January at UCL with a series of discussion/reading groups.  Friday 21st January will compromise a series of paper sessions followed by a panel session.  For the Friday, we are inviting abstract submissions on the theme of ‘Geography and the New Empirics’.  Abstracts should be submitted to geographynewempirics@gmail.com by Friday 26th November.  We particularly encourage the submission of abstracts from post-graduates and early career researchers.

The Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG starts on the 1^st of September 2010 at the Society in London.  This 3-day event attracts over 1,000 geographers from around the world.  The meeting this year is chaired by Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton, and the theme is ‘Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment’.

The SCGRG is delighted to sponsor and co-sponsor 12 events at the 2010 RGS-IBG Annual Conference.  It is the sole sponsor for three sessions on ‘Geography and the Future’ organised by Ben Anderson and Peter Adey on Friday, and two paper sessions on ‘Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry’ and a poetry reading organised by Amy Cutler.  The full details of all SCGRG sponsored sessions are listed on the SCGRG conference page. We hope that you will give the organisers and presenters your support.

The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group AGM will be held during the conference in the RGS-IBG Tea Room on Friday from 13:10.  A full agenda will be circulated at the meeting.  All are welcome.

Please note, due to travel delays after the AAG, the deadline for research guests has been extended.  Research group decisions need to be with the RGS by the 10th of May, so please notify the SCGRG by the 7th of May  if you would like to propose a guest.  

The SCGRG are now accepting applications for Research Group Guests. The SCGRG is able to award complimentary registration for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2010 for a total of six days.

These passes will be awarded on a competitive basis and are available to non-geographers based in the UK, and from both geographers and non-geographers from other overseas who may have difficulties in paying their registration fee. If you are interested in applying for complimentary registration, please apply directly to Gail Davies by the 7th May 2010.

Please include the following details: title, name and affiliation of proposed guest, email address of nominated guest, postal address including country, title of session(s) to which a contribution is being made, a couple of sentences explaining your reasons for proposing this guest to the annual conference.

The SCGRG is delighted to announce the availability of a small number of bursaries for SCGRG members to attend the forthcoming conferences on ‘Salty Geographies’ and ‘Urban Green Space’.

• ‘Salty’ Geographies: Subaltern Maritime networks, spaces and practices is a three-day conference for academics, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students, organised by David Featherstone and William Hasty (University of Glasgow). It will be held at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, October 7th-9th 2010.
• The ‘Urban Green Space’ event is a one-day interdisciplinary colloquium for post-graduates and early career researcher, hosted by CUDEM (Centre for Urban Development and Environmental Management) at the School of the Built Environment, Leeds Metropolitan University. It will be held on 2nd June 2010 and is organized by Karen Horwood and Nadia Von Benzon.

The bursaries are open to all SCGRG members, with preference for support going to those without access to funding and those taking an active part in the conference. Please direct enquiries about bursaries to Gail Davies, copying your message to the relevant conference organiser.

Thanks to everyone who submitted sessions for sponsorship to the SCGRG for the 2010 RGS conference. We were delighted with the quality and range of sessions proposed. The sessions with the SCGRG name on them next year are likely to be the following:

Sponsored sessions:

• Geography and the Future, Ben Anderson (Geography, University of Durham)

Co-sponsored sessions:

• Absence: Materiality, embodiment, resistance, Lars Frers (University of Oslo) Lars Meier (Institute for Employment Research, Nürnberg) and Erika Sigvardsdotter (Uppsala University)
• Citizens-in-becoming? New spaces of parenting, early childhood and welfare, Eleanor Jupp (Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University)
• Getting away from it all – Embodied practices and engagements with the ‘natural’, Paul Barratt (Geography, Hull University) and Leila Dawney (Geography, Exeter University)
• Lifestyle Mobilities and Corporealities: Intersections and Issues, Scott Cohen (Department of Tourism, Otago University) and Tara Duncan (Department of Tourism, Otago University)
• Modern British Poetry and Geography, Amy Cutler (Geography, Royal Holloway University of London)
• ‘Places without a place’: The geographies of ships, William Hasty (Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow) and Kimberley Peters (Geography, Royal Holloway University of London)
• Social and Cultural Geographies of Rural and Urban Coasts , Kim Ward (Geography, University of Exeter) and Owain Jones (Countryside and Community Research Institute)
• Travelling faith: exploring the intersections of religion and migration, Claire Dwyer, (Geography, University College London) and Betsy Olson (School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)
• Youth geographies of in/civility, Donna Brown (Scottish Institution for Policing Research) and Matej Blazek (Geography, Dundee University)

We hope members will support these through submitting papers and attending sessions. You can find more details about the calls for papers on the RGS website or by contacting the session organisers.