Second announcement: please cross-post
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For those who have seen this announcement before, please note that:
a) the registration deadline has been extended to Friday 31st March (a
booking form can be downloaded at the bottom of
www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/seminars.htm);
b) as more publications and discussions have come to light, our 'public
geographies' blurb has grown (see below);
c) our speaker and discussant line-up has expanded (ditto).
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The University of Birmingham 'Public Geographies Working Group' is
pleased to announce...
Public Geographies Symposium
University of Birmingham
Thursday 6 April 2006
10.30 am - 6.00 pm
In the wake of - and alongside - ASA President Michael Burawoy's 2004
championing of a new public sociology, a variety of geographies are now
emerging which call themselves 'public'. For example: in his capacity
as 2003-4 president of the AAG, Alexander Murphy organised a forum on
' The role of geography in public debate ' (published in 2005) and
delivered his presidential address on ' Enhancing Geography's role in
public debate ' (published in 2006); Derek Gregory and Michael Dear
have embarked on a Very public geographies project, whose aim is to
inject geographers' views on important issues into public debate; Noel
Castree (in press) has been admiring the recent 'public intellectual'
writing of geographers David Harvey, Michael Watts and Neil Smith;
Kevin Ward (in press) has been asking what geographers can learn from
debates about public sociology; and Kathryne Mitchell organised a
remarkably well-attended 8am panel on 'Being and becoming a public
scholar' at the 2006 AAG conference.
A new field of 'public geography' is, it seems, taking shape. So, for
this symposium, we have given our speakers a simple brief: to talk on
the theme of 'my public geographies, our public geographies'. We have
asked for no titles or abstracts. We're just interested in what they
have to say.
Confirmed speakers:
Don Mitchell (Geography, Syracuse University)
Steve Hinchliffe (Geography, Open University)
Noel Castree (Geography, University of Manchester)
Diane Swift (Geographical Association, Sheffield)
John Bryson, Jon Sadler & Rossa Donovan (Geography, University of
Birmingham)
Jane Wills (Geography, Queen Mary, University of London)
Kevin Ward (Geography, University of Manchester)
Duncan Fuller (Geography, Northumbria University)
Confirmed discussants:
Fiona Smith (Geography, Dundee University)
Ian Cook et al. (Geography, University of Birmingham)
Fees:
Registration, refreshments & lunch: £45 waged / £25 unwaged/student.
More details:
Programme, booking, travel and other details can be found at
www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/seminars.htm
Wider participation:
Given the reactions to this symposium that were provoked by our first
announcement, we are currently working on ways in which those not able
to attend can find out what was said and contribute to the discussions.
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Ian Cook, Helen Griffiths, Joanne Harvatt, Becky Morris & Emily Quinton
Symposium Committee
Public Geographies Working Group
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/index.htm
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