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.