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RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011

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The Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) is pleased to announce its call for sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011 to take place the Society and Imperial College in London on 31 August-2 September. The conference will be chaired by Professor Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham, and will have “The Geographical Imagination” as its theme.

UGRG encourages submissions that are urban in focus, that are innovative and exciting, and that connect to the conference theme and/or the aims of the Urban Geography Research Group (http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/).

Individuals or groups who would like to propose a session for UGRG sponsorship are invited to submit a session proposal to Luke Binns [log in to unmask] by 25th November 2010.

To be considered for sponsorship, please include:

• the session title and abstract (max 400 words),
• the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the session convenor(s), and
• the format the session is going to take (paper session, panel discussion, etc.).

As usual, each session will be 1 hour 40 minutes in length. The format can range from paper or poster sessions, panel discussions to practitioner forums. It is expected that most sessions will contain five 20 minute papers (with time included in each for questions) or four 20 minute papers with discussion / questions at the end. If you plan to propose an alternative format, please indicate this in your session proposal.

Further procedures are as follows: Convenors will be notified as to whether or not their session will be sponsored by UGRG by the end of November 2010. Session proposals will then be passed on for dissemination on the RGS-IBG website. Convenors send out their CFPs and get back to UGRG with their participants' names, affiliations and abstracts by February 2^nd 2011 in order for us to pass on the information to the RGS-IBG by February 25^th 2011.

Research group sponsorship provides promotion for your session, can help manage timetabling clashes for parallel sessions, and possibly enable registration fee waiver for guests. UGRG are able to sponsor 7 sessions (with sessions submitted jointly to other research groups counting as only 0.5 of the quota).

If you have any further questions regarding the above call, please contact Luke Binns: [log in to unmask]

Please forward to any potentially interested and suitable parties- we look forward to hearing from you!