*Apologies for cross posting*
The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) is pleased to
present a call for sponsored sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International
Conference in London, 1st-3rd September 2010. The chair of the conference is
Neil Wrigley (University of Southampton) and the theme is 'Confronting the
Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment' (see
http://www.rgs.org/ac2010 for more details).
The SCGRG seeks to support research interested in the way the world works
to produce social and cultural difference, engaging with key social science
debates concerning identity, subjectivity, citizenship and belonging. The group
is committed to encouraging inclusive and accessible knowledges, destabilising
hierarchical and centred knowledges in favour of those which foreground
diversity and difference. As such, the group is keen to promote areas of
geography that have often been Othered within the discipline, such as
geographies of the lifecourse, sexuality, disability, ethnicity and religion, as
well as geographies of the non-human and the animal. The group also has an
active postgraduate membership and is keen to support sessions aimed at new
career and emerging researchers (for more information on the group see
http://scgrg.org/).
Research group sponsorship can help promote your session, manage timetable
clashes and enable you to bid for money for Research Group guests. We have
a limited number of sessions we are able to sponsor and are likely to prioritize
sessions which most closely reflect the aims and interests of the full SCGRG
membership. This year we are particularly keen to encourage high profile
sessions that take forward key themes in social and cultural geography.
To put forward your session for SCGRG sponsorship, please send your session
abstract (max 400 words), contact details and session format to me at
[log in to unmask] by the 30th November.
Best wishes
Russell Hitchings
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