Call for PGR Papers: Pre-Conference Symposium of the Food Geographies Working Group (FGWG)
The Food Geographies Working Group (FGWG) is a newly established research collective within the RGS-IBG. Our primary aim is to be an interdisciplinary network for all interested in the broad area of ‘food geographies’.
PGRs are critical to this, and so the opportunity for PhD and Masters students to showcase their work and influence the future direction of the FGWG is central to our 2016 pre-conference symposium. The pre-conference symposium will take place on Tuesday 30th
August before the main conference begins.
This one-day symposium will focus on new concepts, methodologies and areas in food geographies research in order to develop collaborations and stimulate innovative research within and beyond this newly established
group. Given the ongoing global crises around both food production and consumption, it remains critical and timely to cut across the existing RGS-IBG research groups and bring together all those interested in these issues to explore new ways to think about,
and engage with, such challenges.
The provisional schedule for the day is:
09:30 Welcome and introduction
Dr Mags Adams, University of Salford
09.45 Keynote panel on ‘New Directions in Food Geographies?’
Prof Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK
Prof Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Prof Paul Milbourne, Cardiff University, UK
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Postgraduate PechaKucha presentations
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Workshop on ‘New Opportunities for Food Geographies’
16.00 Rapporteur
Dr Joe Nasr, Ryerson University, Canada
We welcome PGR presentations adopting a ‘PechaKucha’ format (PechaKucha is of Japanese origin and involves giving 20 quick-fire slides of 20 secs each, totalling 6 min 40 sec each. Your slides should be timed
to advance automatically every 20 seconds). This will enable greater participation during the symposium as well as ensuring a more informal/friendly environment for presenting students. The focus of the PechaKuchas should be on your work in the area of food
geographies, from the methods used to any results thus far. Through using such a format, we hope to understand the array of early career research emerging in preparation for a co-produced statement paper to be published in
The Geographical Journal. Furthermore, PGRs will play a direct role in the symposium through helping to shape the very future of the FGWG.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Dr Mike Hardman via
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An Eventbrite will be sent out over the summer in order for delegates to formally register for the symposium.
Dr Michael Hardman
Lecturer in Geography | Environment
& Life Sciences
Room G33, Peel Building, University of Salford, Salford, UK M5 4WT
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(0) 161 295 2201
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