Dear All
With usual apologies for cross-posting:
Population Geography Research Group Sponsored Sessions
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff
Wednesday 29th August to Friday 31st August 2018
The Population Geography Research Group invites suggestions for sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018. The conference will take place in Cardiff from Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 August 2018 with workshops and opening events on Tuesday 28 August. The chair of the 2018 conference is Professor Paul Milbourne (Cardiff University). The conference theme is 'Geographical landscapes / changing landscapes of geography.’
Full call for sessions can be found here:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Call+for+sessions+papers+and+posters/Call+for+sessions+papers+and+posters
We welcome any sessions that engage with the conference theme and the broad themes of population geography. This could include, but is not limited to, migration; diversity; population transitions; population structures; inequalities; birth, lives and death; different methodological approaches to understanding population geography. We welcome co-sponsored sessions and any session that utilise a non-traditional format.
If you would like to be considered for sponsorship, please send the following information to Sophie Cranston ([log in to unmask] ) by the 8th of January 2018:
1. title of proposed session (up to 15 words), name and affiliation of organizers, and abstract of c. 200-300 words
2. indication of proposed format (e.g. papers or panel discussion, number of papers, number of timeslots etc.)
We actively invite session proposals from postgraduate researchers. If you would like support with your proposal, please contact Charlotte Bolton ([log in to unmask]) and Andreas Culora ([log in to unmask])
We will inform session organisers about sponsorship by the 10th of January, ahead of the deadline for submitting sessions to the RGS-IBG on the 16th February 2018.
All the best
Sophie
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