SECOND CALL FOR SESSION SPONSORSHIP - RGS-IBG 2010 - URBAN GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH GROUP
Dear all,
Apologies for cross posting.
The Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) is pleased to announce its call for sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2010 which will take place in London on 1st-3rd September. The conference is chaired by Professor Neil Wrigley (University of Southampton) under the theme "Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment".
UGRG encourages submissions that are urban in focus, innovative and exciting and that connect to the conference theme and/or to the aims of the Urban Geography Research Group (http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/).
Individuals or groups who would like to propose a session for UGRG sponsorship are invited to submit a session proposal to Nina Gribat ([log in to unmask]) by 27th November 2009.
To be considered for sponsorship, please include:
>> the session title and abstract (max 400 words),
>> the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the session convenor(s) and
>> the format the session is going to take (paper session, panel discussion, etc.).
As usual, each session will be 1 hour 40 minutes in length. The format can range from paper or poster sessions, panel discussions to practitioner forums. It is expected that most sessions will contain five 20 minute papers with time included in each for questions or four 20 minute papers with discussion and questions at the end. If you plan to propose an alternative format, please indicate this in your session proposal.
Further procedures are as follows: Convenors will be notified as to whether or not their session will be sponsored by UGRG on 1st December 2009. Session proposals will then be passed on for dissemination on the RGS-IBG website. Convenors send out their CFPs and get back to UGRG with their participants' names, affiliations and abstracts by 20th February in order for UGRG to pass on the information to the RGS-IBG by 22nd of February.
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).
We look forward to hearing from you!
If you have any further questions regarding the above call, please also contact Nina Gribat: [log in to unmask]
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