Dear Colleagues,
This is the final call from the
Urban Geography Research Group for sessions for the RGS-IBG ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2008 which will take place in
The chair of the 2008 conference is Professor
**Noel Castree** (
As you may know, arrangements for
the submission of session proposals are a little different this year.
Individuals or groups who would like
to propose a session for UGRG sponsorship should submit a PROPOSAL PACK to Dr
Sessions will be 1 hour 40 minutes
in length but the format is flexible, e.g. contributed papers, poster sessions,
panel discussions and practitioner forums. It is expected that most sessions will
contain five x 20 minute papers (with time included in each for questions) or
four x 20 minute papers with discussion / questions at the end.
SESSION CONVENORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
PUT OUT A CALL FOR PAPERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO AS TO BE ABLE TO FORWARD A
COMPLETE LIST OF AUTHORS/PAPERS FOR THEIR SESSION TO THE UGRG BY THE 1ST
FEBRUARY DEADLINE.
Convenors will be notified as to
whether or not their session has been sponsored after the meeting of the UGRG
committee on 8th February.
Any sessions not sponsored by us can
be submitted directly to the RGS by the session proposer as an Independent
Organiser by 22nd February.
Research group sponsorship provides promotion for your
session, and can help manage timetabling clashes for parallel sessions. It also
enables you to bid for money for Research Group guests (who may be speakers in
your session). UGRG are able to sponsor 7 sessions (with sessions submitted
jointly to other research groups counting as only 0.5 of the quota) and
encourage submissions that are innovative and exciting and that connect the
conference theme to the aims of the Urban Geography Research Group (http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/).
Dr
Senior Research
Fellow
Acoustics Research
Tel: +44 (0)161 295
4599