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Conference of Irish Geographers 2015, Call for Papers Queen’s University, Belfast, 21-24 May 2015 The organisers of the 2015 Conference of Irish Geographers (CIG) invite submissions for papers for the full conference programme. We particularly encourage submissions which address the following themes: Physical/Environmental Themes • Inland waterbodies* • Irish Geomorphology in the 21st Century* • Natural Hazards* • Coastal and Marine Environments* • G.I.S. and Remote Sensing in Geomorphology* • Palaeo-geographic Reconstruction of Submerged Landscapes* • Glacial and Peri-glacial landscapes • Biogeography and palaeoecology • Climate Scenarios & Impacts* Human Themes • Mobilities and identities in contemporary Ireland* • Belfast Futures on the island of Ireland* • Literary Geographies * • Cultural Geographies of Display, Exhibition and Spectacle* • Migrant Perspectives on Integration* • The Humanitarian Present: Precarity, Intervention, and the New World Order* • Geographies of Financialisation* • Religion: Environment, Apocalypse, Geopolitics* • Bordering, Borders, People and Place* • The Economic Geographies of Imperialising Knowledge Claims* • Technological imaginaries and the production of space* • Calculated Spaces and Data infrastructures* (* denotes existing themed sessions) Paper proposals should include the following information: • Registration Number (registration is required before submission of the paper) • Name of presenter, affiliation and email address • Title of Paper and Abstract (no more than 250 words) • Type of presentation (e.g. paper, poster, etc) • An indication as to the appropriate Themed Session (if applicable) We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduate students. If you are intending to submit a paper which addresses one of the above themed sessions, you are requested to also liaise with the session organiser. Further particulars on these sessions (including session organisers’ contact details) can be found at: http://www.conferenceofirishgeographers.ie/#!themed-sessions/c7r9. The closing date for paper submissions is Friday 20th March 2015. Further details of the conference, including registration fees can also be found on the CIG2015 website (http://www.conferenceofirishgeographers.ie/). We look forward to welcoming you to Belfast, CIG Organising Committee