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Dear Colleagues, First, please forgive me if you’re receiving this notification multiple times. We are, however, very pleased to announce that the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) is hosting the 12th Annual Critical Geographies Mini-Conference (formerly known as the Cascadia Critical Geographies Mini-Conference). Registration and abstract submission is now open: http://www.critgeogminicon.org/ The conference will be held on unceded Lheidli T'enneh (Dakelh) territory and will work towards inclusion of non-academic knowledges. We hope the unique geographies of Northern British Columbia will provide potential topics for scholarly work and excellent opportunities for non-academic knowledges and the arts to be engaged. The event will take place on Saturday, September 23, 2017, with an evening of pre-events on September 22nd. Please mark your calendars and encourage your grad students to attend. For geographers who haven’t ventured “up to” Northern British Columbia, this is your chance! Please note that travel to more northerly geographies can be expensive – early planning is encouraged. Travel to Prince George from Vancouver, for example, is approximately 9 hours by car and 1.5 hours via flights offered by both WestJet and Air Canada. Roundtrip tickets from Vancouver are often about $300 CDN though seat sales regularly bring the prices down. Consistent with the long-standing goals of this conference, the emphasis is on creating a fun, engaging, and friendly atmosphere that embraces an unsettling of the “traditional” conference structure. We look forward to a wide range of spatially-oriented critical scholarship and encourage creative work on various themes from geography and other disciplines. There is no fee to attend the conference and graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. Finally, please share this announcement widely on social media and forward this email to interested colleagues, students, and friends. Feel free to contact Sarah directly if you have any specific questions. Many thanks, Sarah de Leeuw, Catherine Nolin, Gail Fondahl, Ethan McLean, and Paul Kingsbury Sarah de Leeuw, PhD | Associate Professor, Northern Medical Program Career Investigator Scholar | Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Co-Editor | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies Research Associate | National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health New in 2017: Gender, Place and Culture: Critical geographies and geography’s creative re/turn: poetics and practices for new disciplinary spaces http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1314947 Canadian Geographer: Going unscripted: A call to critically engage storytelling methods and methodologies in geography and the medical-health sciences http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cag.12337/abstract Where it Hurts: Essays (https://newestpress.com/books/where-it-hurts) University of Northern British Columbia 3333 University Way. Prince George, BC. V2N 4Z9 1-250-807-9016 (office) | 1-250-640-6763 (mobile) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]>