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Dear all, Please find below the spring AND summer 2008 seminar programme of the London Group of Historical Geographers, which is co-convened with Professor Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, University of London). The theme for both terms is 'Historical Geopolitics'. All are welcome. The first seminar of term, on Tuesday 15th January, is by David Atkinson (University of Hull), "Diffusing geopolitics in 1930s Italy". With best wishes, David Lambert * * * LONDON GROUP OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHERS Seminar Programme, Spring/Summer Terms 2008 HISTORICAL GEOPOLITICS Guest co-convenor: Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway 15th January 2008 - David Atkinson (University of Hull) "Diffusing geopolitics in 1930s Italy" 29th January 2008 - Marcus Power (University of Durham) "The commonwealth and the politics of development in post-colonial Mozambique" 12th February 2008 - Alasdair Pinkerton (Royal Holloway) "A new kind of imperialism: Cold War broadcasting and the contested geopolitics of South Asia" 26th February 2008 - Richard Powell (University of Liverpool) "Hydrocarbon histories: the geopolitics of Arctic science" 11th March 2008 - Richard Alston (Royal Holloway) "Transitions in space and time in the cities of the Roman empire" Easter Break 20th May 2008 - Susan Reid (University of Sheffield) "Cosy communist homes: making the Soviet apartment in the Khrushchev era" 27th May 2008 - Nicholas Baron (University of Nottingham) "Mapping the Soviet: geopolitical cultures and control, 1918-1953" 10th June 2008 - Cindy Weber (University of Lancaster) "A critical geo-politics of post-9/11 US identity" These seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London. For further details, or to have your name added to our e-mail list, please contact David Lambert, Royal Holloway (01784 443640, [log in to unmask]) or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary (020 7882 5407, [log in to unmask]). We are grateful to the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Kings, UCL, the Open University, Birkbeck, Sussex and the IHR for supporting this series. - - - Dr David Lambert Reader in Historical Geography Department of Geography Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX