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This may not be an appropriate forum for a bit of conference puffery, but the subject matter of the conference (details below) would seem relevant to the ongoing debate about shell and RGS/IBG. I am no longer a member of IBG as I wasn't too happy about the merger, but am rather concerned about the more widespread understandings of geography as a practice and profession that the RGS/IBG association with Shell (and indeed other actual or potential corporate funders - anyone for Costain?) suggests to those beyond the immediate debate. Ethics is a county near London, isn't it? Regardless, here is a conference (not restricted to geographers) that sets itself up to consider the meanings and identities that industry engenders (and I use the term advisedly)... perhaps there is space (!) for a discussion of geography AND industry, rather than the geography OF industry (even if the conference succeeds in breaking the industry / urban / economic geography presumptions) INDUSTRY - IDENTITY - LANDSCAPE 1996 4th september 1996, Brindley Building Staffordshire University (see it on our web site, if you must) Focusing on issues surrounding the construction of identity and landscape associated with industry in Britain and continental Europe, this conference is placed to ask questions beyond narrowly economistic interpretations of industrial and post-industrial society. A broad spectrum of papers reviewing different aspects and scales of industry have been put together for this conference with the intention of provoking discussion of the material and symbolic values of industry - identity - landscape relations, past, present and future. The Keynote speaker will be David Crouch, with a discussion that considers Art, the industrial imagination and the everyday industrial landscape through the work of Peter Lanyon. Other papers include topics as varied as: ¥ ethnic identity and industry as colonial agency ¥ industrial heritage issues ¥ industry as identity in post industrial sites ¥ industry as the site of memory ¥ re-imagining waterfront landscapes ¥ place attachment and industrial risks ¥ the commodification of industrial new-towns. The Conference will be held on the 4th September 1996 and will run from 9.30 a.m. (registration) through until 5 p.m. (close). It will be held in the Brindley building of Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent (see map overleaf). A buffet lunch will be provided. There is locally available overnight accommodation, which may be booked independently (please request tourist information when booking into the conference). The cost of the day conference is £50.00 inclusive of buffet lunch and coffee / tea. _________________________ e-mail BOOKING FORM _____________________ you can respond initially by e-mail, but cheques need to be sent snail mail, sorry. _____________________________________________________________________ Registration fee: £50.00 (includes lunch and refreshments) I wish to attend the Industry - Identity - Landscape conference in September. Title ____ Name _________________________________________ Organization / Institution _________________________________ Correspondence Address ____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Postcode _____________ fax ___________ tel' _______________ Please send me accommodation details ______________________ Dietary requirements Vegetarian _________ Vegan _________ No special req'ts _________ Other (please specify) _________ I enclose remittance of £________ Please make cheques payable to Staffordshire University Date: _______ Signed _________________________ Please return completed booking forms by Wednesday 14th August 1996 to: Chris Thomas Division of Geography Staffordshire University Leek Road Stoke-on-Trent Staffs ST4 2DF tel 01782 294018 / 294038 fax 01782 747167 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%