Dear all. Please see below for the 2nd call for urban geography sessions at next year&#39;s RGS-IBG annual conference. Regards and apologies for cross-posting:<br clear="all"><br><h1 style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0cm 3pt" align="center">
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<p style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">The <b>Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) </b>is pleased to announce its call for <span class="il">sessions</span>
 for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012 to take place in 
Edinburgh, on Tuesday 3rd-Thursday 5th July 2012. The conference chair 
is Chris Philo (Universityof Glasgow) and the theme is Security of 
Geography/ Geography of Security. For further info please see: <a href="http://www.rgs.org/ac2012" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">www.rgs.org/ac2012</font></a></span></p>

<div style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">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. For further info on the UGRG please 
see our new and exciting website: <a href="http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.urban-geography.org.uk</font></a> . <span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Benefits of Research Group sponsorship include promotion for your session, help in managing timetabling clashes for parallel <span class="il">sessions</span>, and opportunity to apply for registration fee waiver for certain categories of guests. </span></span></div>


<div style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Individuals
 or groups who would like to propose a session for UGRG sponsorship are 
invited to submit a session proposal by emailing <a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1111%26L%3DCRIT-GEOG-FORUM%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1283288%26B%3D--f46d04388e09b5d5fa04b1df2af9%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"> before November 30, 2011. </span></div>


<p style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">To be considered for sponsorship, please include:</span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">the session title and abstract (max 400 words), </span></li>
<li style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the session convenor(s), and </span></li>
<li style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">the format the session is going to take (paper session, panel discussion, etc.).</span></li>
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<p style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">As usual, each session will be 1 hour 40 minutes in length. The format can range from paper or poster <span class="il">sessions</span>, panel discussions to practitioner forums. <span class="il">Sessions</span> usually
 consist of 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 the session proposal. </span></p>
</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Convenors will be notified as to whether or not their session will be sponsored by UGRG by early December 2011.</span>
<div style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">Please
 bear in mind the change of location and earlier date for this year&#39;s 
Annual Conference. If you have any further questions regarding this 
call, contact Luke Binns: <span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1111%26L%3DCRIT-GEOG-FORUM%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1283288%26B%3D--f46d04388e09b5d5fa04b1df2af9%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a></font></span></span></div>


<div style="text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt" lang="EN-GB">We look forward to hearing from you!</span></div>
<br><br>-- <br>Luke Binns<br>PhD Candidate<br>Dublin Institute of Technology<br>Room 213, DIT Mountjoy Square, <br>Dublin 1, Ireland<br>