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Apologies for cross-listings of this final CFP. Please note that the new deadline for expressions of interest to us is now Friday 26 September (in response to a change of final submission dates at the AAG). In response to some queries also note that expressions of interest are welcome from people working in any discipline (ie not just Geography) on geographies of higher education. Best wishes, Kris Olds and Susan Robertson *********************************** Final Call for Papers Globalization/Trade/Neoliberalism/Higher Education American Association of Geographers 100th Annual Conference Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19, 2004 Virtually all core institutions associated with higher education are developing and implementing globalization/internationalization policies, programmes, and projects. At a higher scale, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is beginning to engender the regulatory and discursive reshaping of this "sector". Higher education is becoming a new "frontier" in the gradual opening up of relatively protected sectors to the dynamics of global capital accumulation. Needless to say, these processes of change are fraught with contradictions and vociferous debates. This session aims to explore a range of issues about globalization, neoliberalism, trade, and higher education. At the same time, it is hoped that this session will help spur on more work on the geography OF higher education in Geography and related disciplines. Themes could include: … globalization, governance, and the rescaling of higher education … globalization, neoliberalism, and higher education … the discursive construction of higher education as a "service industry" … the globalization of private higher education … the commercialization and instrumentalization of knowledge … the global assemblages associated with trade in higher education services … academic capitalism … the virtual university … the geopolitics and/or geoeconomics of GATS and higher education … GATS and free trade agreements vis a vis education services … national policy debates on GATS and higher education Please send expressions of interest, questions, or abstracts (less than 250 words) to both of us at the addresses below. For those of you interested, please note that the AAG web site (http://www.aag.org/) contains details on the registration process (including the online submission of abstracts, etc.). Please contact us as soon as possible, and certainly no later than Friday 26 September so we can coordinate the paper sessions, panels, etc. Thank you! Contacts: Dr. Kris Olds Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison 550 N. Park Street, Science Hall Madison, WI 53706 USA Tel: 1-608-262-5685 Fax: 1-608-265-3991 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/olds.html Dr. Susan L. Robertson Coordinator, Centre for Studies of Globalisation, Education & Societies Coordinator, GENIE - Globalisation & Europeanisation Network in Education Editor, Globalisation, Societies and Education Graduate School of Education University of Bristol 35 Berkeley Sq, Bristol, BS8 1JA England Tel. 0117 928 7181 Fax 0117 925 1537 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Education http://www.genie-tn.net