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Dear Colleagues,
The Urban Geography Research Group is pleased to announce its annual call
for sessions for the RGS-IBG ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2009 which will
take place in MANCHESTER, 26-28 AUGUST 2009.
The chair of the 2009 conference is Professor Stuart Lane (Durham
University), and the theme of the conference is “Geography, Knowledge and
Society”. Priority will be given to sessions that address the conference
theme, more information on which can be found at http://www.rgs.org/AC2009
Individuals or groups who would like to propose a session for UGRG
sponsorship should submit a *PROPOSAL PACK* to Matt Collins
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considered for sponsorship, the Pack must contain the following:
* Session title and abstract (max 400 words)
* Name(s) and affiliation(s) of session convenor(s)
* Full list of Papers to be included in the session
* Paper titles, and name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)
* Abstracts (c 200 words) for each Paper
Sessions will be 1 hour 40 minutes in length but the format is flexible,
e.g. contributed papers, poster sessions, panel discussions and practitioner
forums. It is expected that most sessions will contain five x 20 minute
papers (with time included in each for questions) or four x 20 minute papers
with discussion / questions at the end.
SESSION CONVENORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PUT OUT A CALL FOR PAPERS AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE SO AS TO BE ABLE TO FORWARD A COMPLETE LIST OF AUTHORS/PAPERS FOR
THEIR SESSION TO THE UGRG BY THE 23rd JANUARY DEADLINE.
Convenors will be notified as to whether or not their session has been
sponsored after the meeting of the UGRG committee on 6th February 2009.
Research group sponsorship provides promotion for your session, and can help
manage timetabling clashes for parallel sessions. It also enables you to bid
for money for Research Group guests (who may be speakers in your session).
UGRG are able to sponsor 7 sessions (with sessions submitted jointly to
other research groups counting as only 0.5 of the quota) and encourage
submissions that are innovative and exciting and that connect the conference
theme to the aims of the Urban Geography Research Group
(http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/).
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Matt Collins
PhD Student
Dept of Geography
University of Sheffield
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http://shef.ac.uk/geography/students/pg/mattcollins.html
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