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From: Eesti Geograafia Selts <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 19 May 2014 09:14
Subject: NGM2015 Call for sessions
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"@aadu.tlu.ee

Dear all,

These are busy times and many of you have requested some extra time for submitting a session proposal for the next NGM meeting to be held in Estonia in 2015. These are busy times here as well, hence the organisers will have a meeting to review the proposals at the end of May and hence we can gladly extend the deadline until 25 May.

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On behalf of the LOC


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From: Eesti Geograafia Selts <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 1 April 2014 10:08
Subject: NGM2015 Call for sessions

Estonian Geographical Society in cooperation with Estonian universities invites session proposals for the 6th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia on
15 – 19 June 2015 on the theme "Geographical Imagination: Interpretations of Nature, Art and Politics". Both human and physical geographers are encouraged to participate under this broad heading but the organisers aim at highlighting the connections between nature, climate and imagination, culture contacts between East and West (across and beyond the Baltic to the Far East, the Americas and Oceania) including geographical explorations and the issues of interpretation and politics (including being lost or found in translation).
Estonia’s debated history and geography (regional belonging) make it a great place for critical debate on interpretations and provide geographers with far more than just a location for a conference, expanding their horizons, encouraging imagination and connections with nature. In 2015 the Estonian Geographical Society is celebrating its 60th anniversary and the Russian Geographical Society its 150th (significant since most of its founders were from the Baltic Provinces). These events connect to the conference theme opening for a discussion of geographical explorations, their documentation and the role of geographical societies in launching such activities of discovery and creation. If the role of geographical societies in the past needs a critical review, their future, as well as the future of teaching and publishing geography is continuously debated. The conference theme also connects directly to the geographies of children and young people – a popular topic in geography demonstrated clearly at the Iceland conference – that resonates with creative approaches in geography as a discipline and in the mundane.


The 2015 Local Arrangements Committee (LAC)
Mihkel Kangur, President of the Estonian Geographical Society, Tallinn University
Taavi Pae, University of Tartu
Tiina Peil, Tallinn University
Kalev Sepp, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Instructions:
-Session proposals should include a proposed title and a two-hundred-word abstract. All proposals should be submitted electronically in Word to [log in to unmask]            The conference language is English.
-The LAC encourages proposals of all types, including traditional sessions with successive papers and commentary, thematic panel discussions or debates, roundtables, workshops and poster presentations. If you will need technology for presentations, please indicate this in your proposal.
-Deadline for submissions is 25 May 2014. Notification of acceptance before Midsummer 2014.
-Questions may be addressed to Tiina Peil ([log in to unmask]). All practical matters will be addressed by Tallinn University Conference Centre (http://www.tlu.ee/en/Conference-Centre; e-mail [log in to unmask])

More information will soon be available at the conference webpage www.tlu.ee/en/ngm2015