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**Call for Sessions **

Geographies of Justice Research Group (GJRG)

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London

Tuesday 29 August to Friday 1 September 2017

The GJRG invites proposals for sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2017.  Professor Sarah Radcliffe is the next conference Chair with the theme of ‘‘Decolonizing geographical knowledges: opening geography out to the world’- www.rgs.org/AC2017Theme

The theme aims to ‘query implicitly universal claims to knowledges associated with the west, and further interrogate how such knowledges continue to marginalize and discount places, people and knowledges across the world.…’.

This theme offers some exciting opportunities for geographies of justice research and we would particularly welcome sessions exploring:

· ‘Practising’ justice and scholar-activism

· Knowledge production and justice

· Multi-scalar inequalities and injustices

· Decolonising justice

· Crossing the disciplinary divide in justice research

However, we are also very open to sessions that engage with geographies of justice more broadly. A summary of the group’s interests can be found at https://research.ncl.ac.uk/geographiesofjustice/

Sessions may take the form of presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions or workshops; we particularly welcome innovative sessions and format.

Proposals for sessions should include a title and abstract (300 words), the names and institutional affiliations of the organisers, the planned format of the session and number of timeslots sought (each timeslot is 100 minutes).  This should be sent to the GJRG Secretary, Sally Lloyd-Evans ([log in to unmask]) by Thursday 22nd December 2016. 

If sponsorship is provided, session organisers will have until 17 February 2017 to provide the full details of the session (with all proposed papers/presenters) for final submission to the RGS-IBG.  Detailed information and the session proposal form can be found here: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Call+for+sessions+papers+and+posters/How+to+organise+a+session.htm

 
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or queries.
Best wishes,
Sally

Dr Sally Lloyd-Evans

Associate Professor in Human Geography

Department of Geography and Environmental Science
School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science 
University of Reading

Whiteknights PO Box 227
Reading RG6 6AB
UK
Tel. +44 (0)118 378 7293
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