PGRG Workshop (6-7 January): “A great success”

‘The RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group workshop ‘Why does political geography matter?’ was held at Newcastle University on 6th-7th January 2011. The event was organised by Alex Jeffrey, Fiona McConnell, Nick Megoran and Alison Williams, and was supported by the Power, Space, Politics research cluster in Geography. The two day workshop was attended by 39 participants from universities across the UK, as well as from the US and Europe, and brought together a wide range of PhD students, early career researchers and established academics. Sessions included keynote addresses from Louise Amoore (Durham) and Alan Ingram (UCL), presentations on teaching political geography, reading groups on significant recent articles, and papers from emerging researchers. Discussions were lively and engaging and the next Political Geography Research Group workshop is already being planned for 2012.’

A ‘Perfect Storm’ ahead?

Geographical perspectives on food, water and energy security to 2030

 February 2011, 09.45 – 16.00, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR 

 

NB: all speakers named are confirmed

09.15 Registration and Coffee

09.45 Introduction

 

Dr Rita Gardner, Director, RGS-IBG Morning Chair:   

09.50 Session 1: Background

Climate change context:  Research background:  

 

10.30 Session 2: Keynote Speech

Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State Department for Energy and Climate

 

11.15 Session 3: Security challenges from the “Perfect Storm”

 

Water: Professor Nigel Arnell, Director Walker Institute, Reading University 

Food: Dr David Barling, Reader in Food Policy, City University London 

Energy:

Professor Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Human Geography, Leicester University 

 

 

Afternoon chair: Professor Mike Bradshaw, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester

 

13.25 Session 4: Geographical understanding: case studies  

 13.20 Introduction to afternoon

RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group workshop

  ‘Why does political geography matter?’
  

This workshop will take place at Newcastle University, 6-7^th January, 2011 and will include;

- plenary sessions with Louise Amoore, Alan Ingram and Rhys Jones

- reading groups on recently-published papers

- two postgrad/postdoc research paper sessions

- a session on teaching political geographies 

The workshop is free to attend and there will be plenty of space for discussion at every stage.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND – 30th NOVEMBER
 
Please use the following weblink to register for this event and for the workshop dinner.
 

http://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=38&deptid=9&catid=52

For more information contact Alison Williams (alison.williams1@ncl.ac.uk)

‘Why does political geography matter?’ CFP: RGS-IBG political geography workshop, 6-7 January 2011

The RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group are pleased to announce the political geography workshop 2011. It will take place at Newcastle University, 6-7th January, 2011. As agreed at the first workshop, at UCL in 2009, the topic this time will be, ‘Why does political geography matter?’ Formats will include invited plenary sessions, reading groups on recently-published papers, standard research paper sessions, and short presentations – with plenty of space for discussion at every stage.

Information on registration will be made available nearer the time: at this stage, please make a note in your diaries.

The organisers are inviting submissions for two sessions.

1) Teaching political geography.
Does the way we teach political geography matter? The revival of political geography as a research theme is increasingly reflected in the provision of undergraduate courses. To assess the state of teaching in the field, and to share experience and good practice, short presentations are invited on any related theme. These may include: new technologies and innovative methods; fieldtrips; using print, film and on-line resources (including textbooks); postgraduate teaching/ demonstrating; lectures/seminars; course structures/progression through degree programme; dissemination of techniques; dissertations, etc

2) Emerging research – postgraduate and postdoctoral research papers.
To engage with the mushrooming of research in the field, abstracts for research papers by postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers are invited. Submissions on any topic germane to the field are welcome. The organisers would hope to be able to provide a certain number of travel bursaries.

(Supervisors/mentors: please pass this on to relevant students/mentees).

For ‘teaching political geography’ please submit abstracts to Alison Williams (alison.williams1@ncl.ac.uk) or Nick Megoran (nick.megoran@ncl.ac.uk) . For ‘emerging research’ please submit abstracts to Fiona McConnell (Fiona.mcconnell@ncl.ac.uk) .

AAG CFP: ‘Back to the Future’: Primitive Accumulation and Contemporary Capitalism

AAG 2009: ‘Back to the Future’: Primitive Accumulation and Contemporary Capitalism
Session Organizers: Marc Auerbach and Rohit Negi, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University.

AAG call for papers: Educating the cosmopolitan national

Please find below a call for papers for the session ‘Educating the cosmopolitan national: Negotiating memory and conflict in making democratic citizens’ at the American Association of Geographers’ Conference 2009.  If you are interested in presenting a paper, please contact Dan Hammett (D.Hammett@ed.ac.uk) or Lynn Staeheli (Lynn.staeheli@ed.ac.uk)

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Annual International Conference 2008

PolGRG is sponsoring several sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 27-29 August.

Critical Geopolitics 2008

The group is sponsoring this conference, which will take place at Durham University, 23-24 September 2008.