The deadline for 2013 IGU-KRC is now being extended to 4 February 2013.
We are expecting more abstracts...
http://oguchaylab.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IGU2013/
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CALL FOR PAPERS: IGU Regional Conference 2013, Kyoto, Japan, 4-9 August 2013
http://www.igu-kyoto2013.org/
The IGU Commission on the History of Geography
http://web.univ-pau.fr/RECHERCHE/UGIHG/index.html
are planning the following two sessions during the conference.
1. Languages, materiality and the construction of geographical modernities
Organizer:
Jacobo Garcia-Alvarez (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid) jgalvare [at] hum.uc3m.es
Toshiyuki Shimazu (Wakayama Univ.) shimazu[at]center.wakayama-u.ac.jp
Our Commission plans to organize a themed session to contemplate over how
different geographical languages and discourses have been deployed in the
material and representational construction of modern spaces and places, and
how the materiality of modern social life has in turn shaped those languages
and discourses. The concept of "geographical modernities" refers thus not
only to the differentiated modern spaces and places, but also to modern
academic and non-academic geographical discourses themselves. Papers are
welcome especially dealing with:
- relationships between the history of geography and material objects,
institutions and localities;
-critical reflections on various geographical languages (written texts,
maps, photographs, paintings, engravings and others);
- material cultures and the production, circulation and consumption of
geographical knowledges;
- imaginative geographies in academia and broader society;
- academic and non-academic geographers and the planning and development of
cities, regions and countryside.
Participants are welcome to submit abstracts on the topics listed above, but
are not limited to those mentioned.
2. History of geography, geographical thought and practice, and gender
[Joint session with the Commission on Gender and Geography]
Organizer:
Janice Monk (Univ. of Arizona) jmonk [at] email.arizona.edu
Jacobo Garcia-Alvarez (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid) jgalvare [at] hum.uc3m.es
Tamami Fukuda (Osaka Prefecture Univ.) tamami[at]hs.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Within the context of the main theme for the 2013 IGU Kyoto Regional
Conference "traditional wisdom and modern knowledge for the earth's future,"
the History of Geography Commission and the Gender and Geography Commission
plan to organize a joint session "History of Geography, Geographical Thought
and Gender." As decades of vibrant scholarship, including feminist
scholarship, have revealed the social processes and the power relations that
produce them, both of traditional wisdom and modern knowledge, are neither
universal nor neutral. Geographical knowledge is no exception. Over the
years we have witnessed a comprehensive critique of geographical traditions
in several sub-disciplines within academic geography. In this joint session,
we re-consider the production, transformation and distribution of
geographical knowledge - academic and non-academic - from a gender
perspective. Papers using a gender perspective are welcome especially in
relation to:
- reconsiderations of the history of academic geography and alternative
histories of geography;
- critical reflections on geographical concepts (e.g. place, space, home,
boundaries, landscape);
- the myriad ways in which geographical knowledge - academic and
non-academic - has been produced and embodied in society.
Participants are welcome to submit abstracts on the topics listed above, but
are not limited to those mentioned. Other topics and papers concerning
"History of Geography, Geographical Thought and Practice, and Gender" are
also welcome.
Please see the proposals of these and other sessions at
http://oguchaylab.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IGU2013/session_proposals.html#c12.20
Extended deadline for abstract submissions: 4 February 2013.
Abstracts (maximum: 250 words) should be sent via
http://oguchaylab.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IGU2013/submission_si.html
We will be happy to share this information with other colleagues who might
be interested in participating.
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Toshiyuki Shimazu, Ph. D.
Professor
Department of Geography
Faculty of Education
Wakayama University
930 Sakaedani
Wakayama
640-8510
Japan
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