Dear colleagues,

Here is a really good reason to come to Cairns, Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef!

Scroll down for Institute of Australian Geographers conference details.

Kind regards,

Wendy Shaw

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Cultural Geography Study Group Session, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Cairns, Australia

Session Title: Methodology and data update

Convenors: Danielle Drozdzewski and Wendy Shaw, University of New South Wales

CFP Due: April 9, 2009

In this era of mixed methods and new technological formats, a raft of innovative methodological and data possibilities has opened.  Some researchers are engaging with, for example, the use of 'memory' as a source of data, and have used interesting methods to access memories and historical narratives.  Others have worked on the inclusion of visual or aural data in inventive and plausible ways.  Researchers have unearthed a whole set of methods for generating unusual forms of data, to either compliment more traditional research methods or open new pathways of data generation and analysis. 

This session seeks to engage with methodologies and data sources that suggest new, sometimes unorthodox directions. 

Please submit abstracts to the session convenors: Danielle Drozdzewski ([log in to unmask]) or Wendy Shaw ([log in to unmask]) by 9 April, 2009.

Please see below for further details on the conference and location

Institute of Australian Geographers, 2009 Conference

Cairns, QLD,  Australia

http://www.iag.org.au/conferences-events/iag-conference-cairns-2009/

The School of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Australian Tropical Forest Institute at James Cook University invite you to attend the 2009 Institute of Australian Geographers Conference in  Cairns.

This is the first time our annual conference will be held in Cairns, and we are working hard to ensure that all delegates have the chance to learn about, and experience first-hand, some of our fascinating tropical landscapes and ways of life.

The conference will be held on the Cairns campus of James Cook University. This is a new campus set in a circle of rainforest-clad hills some 15 km north of Cairns city. Good accommodation, dining, beaches and some entertainment are all available close to the conference venue.

The Organising Committee is developing a wide-ranging programme, and we are very grateful to those of you who have proposed sessions or who have agreed to be session conveners. Our conference theme *‘Balancing Choices and Effects in a Dynamic World’ *reflects our location in the dynamic, very wet tropics, but the programme will also reflect the dynamism of geographical research being carried out across Australia (and beyond).  More detail about the programme is provided below.

We think that this will be a very exciting conference, and an important chance for all of us to meet, discuss research issues in Geography, and maintain or initiate both national and international collaborations. The organizing committee looks forward to welcoming you to Cairns in September 2009.

The official conference website, with details of the programme and registration, can be found at

http://www.iag.org.au/conferences-events/iag-conference-cairns-2009/

David Gillieson

For the Organising Committee