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Ben Sounds great, really great, to me. Thanks for all your hard work. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Fincham" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:51 PM Subject: Cycling and Society Symposium > Dear All, > > Thanks very much for your responses to my initial e-mail. I am now > going to propose a kind of format that seems to encapsulate the > essence of the reactions as to how we should go about organising the > jamboree. > > - It will last two days and those two days will be open to all > attendees. > > - We will have paper presentations for the whole of day one and the > first half of day two. > > - The paper presentations will take place in the Council Chamber of > the Glamorgan Building (Capacity 200) and three smaller rooms in the > Glamorgan Building are booked for the two days for smaller group > discussions and refreshments. > > - The second half of day two will be set aside for: > (1) the Cycling and Society Research Group > (2) Smaller group discussions for those that want them. > > - I suggest we have an open invitation for papers with a special > emphasis on those that are presenting at velo city. > > - We should try and get policy people, advocates, academics, > activists to attend. > > - We will have a posh website up and running as soon as I give our > dept web person some text. It is through this that we can advertise > the event - this, I think is a coup, and I would like help with this, > I think myself and Mark McGuinness from Bath said we'd do something > similar in Lancaster. Is that ok Mark? > > - Deadlines for abstracts will be February 25th 2005. We will > nominate three people to look at abstracts. > > - I will try and get our research committee to donate some money for > refreshments. However I have been warned that if this is to be a free > event that we will have to be responsible for our own lunches, > suppers and accomodation - Not a problem there are plenty of places > to stay and eat in Cardiff. > > Have I forgotten anything? > > Please let me know if this is alright as I want to get moving on this > quite quickly, and get publicising the event before Christmas. > > All the best > > Ben > > Ben Fincham > Cardiff University