> FOR ALTERNATIVE 21ST CENTURY GEOGRAPHIES:
> 2ND INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCE
>
> TAEGU, SOUTH KOREA
>
> 9-13 August 2000
>
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> Ist Announcement and Call for Papers
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> Following the successful inaugural International Critical Geography (ICG)
> conference in Vancouver in August 1997, attended by 300 people from 30
> countries, the 2nd ICG Conference is a major international conference
which will take place at the University of Taegu, South Korea, from 9 to
13 August 2000.
>
> *** THEME: For Alternative 21st Century Geographies. This theme in
> many ways defines the mission of the International Critical Geography
> Group which attempts to build a 'critical' geographically informed
> practice as a political tool for remaking local and global geographies
> into a more egalitarian world. As geographical concepts become
> increasingly central to an understanding of world politics, from global
> warming to resurgent nationalisms, globalization to assertions of local
> autonomy, there has never been a more important time to fashion a
> geographically smart politics.
>
> *** PROPOSED TOPICS. The following topics are suggestive but might
help frame the work of the conference:
>
> Technology and the corporatizing of university geography
> Geografia contra neo-liberalismo
> Why is geography so conservative?
> Updates on specific struggles
> Economic crises: Asia, Latin America, Africa
> Space and theory
> Nature and Society
> Beyond the Mantra: the POLITICS of class, race, gender,
> sexuality
> Justice and Environment
> Africa in and out of the global economy
> Post Cold War Political Geography: Korea
> Multiculturalism
> Scale as Political Strategy
> Space/Territory
> Silent war: the New Global Geography of Poverty and
> Inequality
> Cultural Politics, Global Capital
>
> *** SESSIONS. The conference will have four kinds of sessions:
>
> # plenary sessions
> # regular paper sessions
> # symposia on specific themes
> # alternative format sessions
>
> *** E-LIST and WEBSITE. Participants who would like to correspond with
> others concerning sessions, papers and any other aspect of the conference
> can subscribe to the ICG e-mail list:
>
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> Periodic updates and more general information can be found at the ICG
> website:
>
> http://econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp/icgg/
>
> *** PRE-PUBLISHED PAPERS. Given our desire to communicate across various
> languages in this major international conference, we strongly encourage
> participants to submit their papers ahead of time. Papers submitted by
> the deadline (see below) will be posted on the icg website and published
> on paper at the conference. This will have the added advantage of
> allowing us to organize sessions around discussion of papers that the
> audience will already have read. We also encourage you to make these
papers short, 10 to 15 pages, as a way of encouraging reading and
discussion of papers.
>
> *** SCHEDULE and DEADLINES:
>
> November 30 1999: 2nd Announcement
> January 15 2000: Abstract (100 words) and
> Conference Fees deadline
> March 1 2000: Draft program
> April 30 2000: Paper Deadline
> May 31 2000: Final Program
>
> *** FIELD TRIPS. The last day of the conference, August 13, will be
> devoted to field trips.
>
> *** TRAVEL. The Conference has been organized to precede the
> International Geographical Conference in Seoul, 14-18 August, 2000. Taegu
> is South Korea's third largest city, a longstanding textiles and
> industrial center, lying 300 km south of Seoul. The rail journey from
> Seoul is very fast (3 1/2 hours) and inexpensive. Alternatively,
flights can be booked directly to Taegu. The University is on the
outskirts of town.
>
> *** ACCOMMODATIONS Conference participants will be accommodated in
> dormitories at the University of Taegu. These accommodations are basic
> and include small rooms with two single beds and shared showers.
> Alternatively, participants can arrange to stay at a hotel in the city of
> Taegu although the university lies on the outskirts of the city.
>
> *** CONFERENCE FEES
>
> Full Fees (includes shared accommodation and meals):
>
> Faculty $US 200
> Students $US 100
>
> Fees without accommodation (includes meals):
>
> Faculty $US 170
> Students $US 70
>
> Reduced fees are available for participants from non-hard currency
> countries.
>
> Deadline for Abstracts and Fees: JANUARY 15 2000
>
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THE IMPORTANT PART
> Please send
> abstract
> fees
> registration form
>
> by January 15 2000 to:
>
> Neil Smith
> ICG Conference
> CCACC
> 8 Bishop Place
> Rutgers University
> New Brunswick NJ 08903
> USA
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Dr. Lawrence D. Berg
Department of Geography
University of Victoria
PO Box 3050
Victoria, BC
Canada V8W 3P5
Facsimile: (250) 721-6216
Telephone: (250) 592-2278
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwglobal/Berg/LDB.html
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