Feedback on first PolGRG workshop
The first PolGRG Practising Political Geographies workshop took place at UCL on 12th-13th May 2009. Attached here you can see comments from people who attended and suggestions for next time.
Also attached are the slides from the first day’s presentation by Eric Neumayer on research design and quantitative methods.
Alan Ingram
Secretary, PolGRG
Add comment 25 June 2009
positions in Switzerland…
There are various jobs coming up in Switzerland:
- an *Assistant Professorship *in Political Geography, at the University
of Neuchâtel:
- a *PhD studentship* (fully funded) at the University of Geneva, on the
regionalisation of environmental governance (to work with Profs Fall and
Debarbieux). Contact: bernard.debarbieux@unige.ch
*http://www.unige.ch/ses/geo/index.html
- a PhD studentship at the University of Berne on* Bridging Places
Across Borders: Constitution, Maintenance and Meaning of Transnational
Social Space (Prof. Dr. Janine Dahinden, PD Dr. Yvonne Riano (University
of Neuchâtel), Prof. Dr. Michael Nollert, Dr. Marina Richter (University
of Fribourg). Contact : Yvonne.riano@unine.ch *
Add comment 15 May 2009
Practising Political Geographies, 12th-13th May 2009
A workshop organized by the Political Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
at the Department of Geography, UCL
This PolGRG workshop will be a focal point for discussion of political geography. It will be of interest to established, mid- and early career scholars and to those undertaking PhD research within, or related to, political geography.
Day one will feature:
- a keynote talk from Professor Stuart Elden (Department of Geography, Durham University) reflecting on key issues in political geography
- responses from scholars in the field
- reading groups on recent agenda-setting research
Day two will focus on methodological and early career issues, with panels on:
- key issues in methodology
- completing a PhD
- making the transition to an academic career
- writing and publishing
There will be plenty of time for plenary discussion and networking on both days.
The workshop will begin with lunch at 12pm on Tuesday 12th May and conclude with tea/coffee at 3pm on Wednesday 13th May. It’s free to attend, but registration is required (contact: Alan Ingram a.ingram@ucl.ac.uk). Refreshments and lunch will be provided on both days. Further details will be posted on the PolGRG website.
We hope you will be able to take part and look forward to seeing you in May.
Sean Carter, Jason Dittmer, Klaus Dodds, Drew Foxall, Alan Ingram
RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group
Add comment 17 February 2009
Inaugural lecture by Professor Klaus Dodds
Geopolitics: An A-Z Guide
Inaugural Lecture
Tuesday 25 November 2008
Professor Klaus Dodds
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Windsor Building Auditorium, 6pm
Geopolitics appears to be back in fashion. Political leaders are talking again about ‘spheres of influence’, the return of the ‘Cold War’ and even a ‘global security envelope’. While geographical reasoning remains at the heart of foreign and security policies, it is also manifested in popular culture including film, TV and radio. In this lecture, Klaus Dodds offers an A-Z guide on the subject and along the way will take in Antarctica, James Bond and much more.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Windsor Building Foyer at Royal Holloway, University of London.
All welcome.
Add comment 10 November 2008
RGS-IBG 2009: call for session proposals
The Political Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG is pleased to extend an invitation to sponsor sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in Manchester 26-28 August 2009. The chair of the 2009 conference is Professor Stuart Lane (Durham University) and the theme ‘Geography, Knowledge and Society’ (a more complete description of the theme can be found at www.rgs.org/ac2009
The deadline for Research Groups to receive proposed session ideas is the 18th of November 2008. Calls for papers will be posted on the RGS web shortly after. The final deadline for submission of the full session information (with abstract of papers) is due on the 3rd of February. The full timeline for submitting sessions and abstracts for the 2009 RGS-IBG conference is on-line at http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Timeline.htm
The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) brings together geographers and others interested in a wide variety of phenomena connected with relationships between space and power.
Areas of interest within political geography include: territoriality, states, nationalism, geopolitics, sovereignty, social movements, citizenship, political economy, political ecology, diaspora, elections, boundaries, globalization, imperialism, governance, peace, conflict and security. The mutual geographical construction of these phenomena with gender, race, class, sexuality and religion is a particular focus of interest. Much recent work has sought to uncover the historical dimensions to political geography, and the history of the subdiscipline itself has been an active area for research. Research by members of the Group is informed by a range of theoretical and methodological positions and by engagement with wider debates. The Group seeks collaborations and conversations with other areas of geography and other disciplines as we continue our work on these and other topics.
Research group sponsorship can help promote your session, manage timetable clashes and enable you to bid for money for Research Group guests.To put forward your session for PGRG sponsorship, please send your session abstract (max 400 words), contact details and session format (including details of how many sessions you envisage and if sponsorship has also been sought from other research groups) to Sean Carter (s.carter@exeter.ac.uk) by 18/11/08.
As with any research group, we only have a limited number of sessions that we are able to sponsor – however, we will work with the RGS-IBG to try to get those sessions that we are unable to formally sponsor onto the programme.
Add comment 31 October 2008
CfP AAG: Subaltern Geopolitics
CFP: Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas,
Subaltern Geopolitics
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Add comment 22 September 2008
AAG CFP: Geographies of Media
Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Last Day for Session Registration: October 16, 2008
Please note that sessions will likely fill earlier than the final deadline.
Geographies of Media
Co-Sponsored by the Political Geography Specialty Group, the Cultural
Geography Specialty Group, the Critical Geography Specialty Group, the
Communication Geography Specialty Group and Aether: The Journal of Media
Geography
(more…)
Add comment 19 September 2008
AAG CFP: Responsibilization of Petropolitics: Finance, Violence, and Discourses of Security
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Las Vegas, March 2009
CFP: Responsibilization of Petropolitics: Finance, Violence, and Discourses of Security
Paper Session organized by Nayna Jhaveri and Mazen Labban
(more…)
Add comment 18 September 2008
