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Dear all please find below a programme for the 'geographies of collecting' sessions on Monday 16 Aug, at the IGU/RGS-IBG next week in Glasgow, with apologies for those who can't be there. I was asked to forward this because the conference booklet may be inaccurate. fd ************ Geographies of Collecting sessions at the IGU Geographies of Collecting. Sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group Monday 16 August, 2004. Convened by Pippa Biltcliffe, Starr Douglas and Jude Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London) 11.50-13.00 SESSION ONE (CHAIR: Starr Douglas) 11.50-12.00 Introduction 12.00-12.20 Diarmid Finnegan (School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh) Outside the museum: other sites and spaces of natural history display in Victorian Scotland 12.20-12.40 Pippa Biltcliffe (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway) Collecting art objects: patronage, possession and place 12.40-13.00 Catherine White (Division of Geography, University of Northumbria) The flea market: a site of acquisition 14.00-15.20 SESSION TWO (CHAIR: Jude Hill) 14.00-14.20 Rebecca Ellis and Anna Haywood (University of Essex) Virtual radiophile?: the changing collecting practices of the vintage radio community in an Internet era 14.20-14.40 Hayden Lorimer (Department of Geography and Geomatics, University of Glasgow) A collectable topography: walking, remembering and recording mountains 14.40-15.00 Chris Perkins (School of Geography, University of Manchester) Critical ethnography and the placing of map collecting practice 15.00-15.20 Simon Naylor (School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol) Collecting the weather: meteorology in Victorian Cornwall 15.30-16.50 SESSION THREE (CHAIR: Pippa Biltcliffe) 15.30-15.50 Jude Hill (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway) The story of the amulet: collecting geographies 15.50-16.10 Starr Douglas (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway) Eighteenth century insect collectors and the Aurelian society 16.10-16.30 Bronwyn Parry (Department of Geography, Queen Mary) Collecting ourselves in the technoscientific age: investigating the multiple lives of bodily artifacts 16.30-16.50 DISCUSSANT: Felix Driver (Royal Holloway)