Sorry for the cross-post (again), but please forward this message to relevant graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed junior faculty in your department. Thank you!
Nik Heynen
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Announcing:
Antipode's 1st Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice (SIGJ)—in conjunction with the International Critical Geography Group (ICGG)
Antipode's 1st Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice (SIGJ)—in conjunction with the International Critical Geography Group (ICGG) will take place in Athens, Georgia, USA, May 28-June 1, 2007.
In the tradition of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography (see: http://www.wun.ac.uk/economicgeography/index.html), the Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice (SIGJ) will provide an exciting opportunity to engage leading edge theoretical, methodological, and research-practice issues in the field of radical geography and social justice (both broadly defined), along with a range of associated professional and career development matters. This international meeting will be specifically designed to meet the needs of new researchers, taking the form of an intensive, interactive workshop for 25 participants. It will include facilitated discussion groups, field trips, debates and panels, training and skills development modules, and plenary sessions. Topics for the meeting will include: defining radical/critical geographies, models of engagement broadly, models of activist-scholarship specifically, interdisciplinary radical work, producing public geographies, locating the boundaries of "the geographies of justice," the institutional cultures of radical geography, interdisciplinary dialogue and radical geography, how to teach radical geographies, publishing radical geographies and mapping the future of radical/critical geographies.
Featured contributors at the Athens (2007) meeting will be:
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro (Assistant Professor, SUNY New Paltz)
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/saed/myweb/saed_honlapja.html (Old site)
David Harvey (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY)
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/fac_harvey.html
Don Mitchell (Distinguished Professor of Geography, Syracuse University)
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/faculty/Mitchell.htm
Laura Pulido (Associate Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/people/faculty/
Charlene Smith (Activist/Journalist, Johannesburg, South Africa)
http://pages.interlog.com/~saww/2001Charlene.html
Melissa Wright (Associate Professor in Geography and in the Program on Women's Studies, Penn State)
http://www.geog.psu.edu/people/wright/
The local organizers of the meeting are Nik Heynen and Andy Herod of the University of Georgia. Further details about Nik and Andy and the UGA Department of Geography are available here: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/ Other members of the UGA Geography faculty will also be on hand to participate, including Hilda Kurtz, Steve Holloway, Amy Ross and current AAG president Kavita Pandit.
Who is Eligible and How to Apply?
The Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice is open to doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed junior faculty (normally within 3 years of appointment).
The Summer Institute participation fee will be $200 for graduate students and $250 for faculty and postdoctoral researchers. This fee will include your lodging for the week, field trip costs, and fund a reception at the end of the week.
All those wishing to attend the SIGJ must complete a pre-registration form by February 23, 2007. Pre-registration forms are available at the University of Georgia’s web site:
http://www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/heynen/SIGJ/SIGJ.doc
Please fill out the form and email it to both Nik Heynen [log in to unmask] and Andy Herod [log in to unmask]
Support for the SIGJ is being provided by:
• The Department of Geography at the University of Georgia: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/
• Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0066-4812
• The International Critical Geography Group:
http://econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp/icgg/
• The People's Geography Project:
http://www.peoplesgeography.org/index.html#
The SIGJ Steering Committee includes:
-Noel Castree; Manchester University
-Paul Chatterton; Leeds University
-Andy Herod; University of Georgia
-Nik Heynen; University of Georgia
-Don Mitchell; Syracuse University
-Jaime Peck; University of Wisconsin
-Laura Pulido; University of Southern California
-Melissa Wright; Penn State
Further information about the Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice can be obtained from Nik Heynen [log in to unmask]
Information on Athens can be found at http://www.visitathensga.com/ or http://www.libs.uga.edu/athens/
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Dr. Nik Heynen
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography,
University of Georgia,
GG Building, 210 Field St., Room 204,
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-1954 (direct)
(706) 542-2856 (office)
Fax: (706) 542-2388
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/directory/details.php?i=220&group=
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