This rather resembles a 'Fast Show' sketch, but is interesting
nonetheless...
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/
lds06/text/60330-23.htm#60330-23_unstar0
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
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Sent: 30 March 2006 12:05
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Subject: FINAL REMINDER: Public Geographies Symposium, University of
Birmingham, April 6.
*Final* announcement: please cross-post
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If you haven't quite got round to sending in your booking form and
cheque for this symposium, please note that the deadline is tomorrow.
Registration, refreshments & lunch fees are £45 waged / £25
unwaged/student. You can download a booking form at
www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/seminars.htm
If you can't make this event but are interested in taking part, please
email and comments or questions to Ian Cook <[log in to unmask]> by
Wednesday of next week. He'll raise these in his discussant slot. If
you want to find out who said what, technical hitches notwithstanding,
we intend to archive the presentations on the symposium website (in
powerpoint and video form) as soon as possible.
Finally, you may like to know that Jonathan Breckon, Head of Policy and
Public Affairs for the Royal Geographical Society, has agreed to be our
third discussant.
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The University of Birmingham 'Public Geographies Working Group' is
pleased to announce...
Public Geographies Symposium
University of Birmingham
Thursday 6 April 2006
10.30 am - 6.00 pm
In the wake of - and alongside - ASA President Michael Burawoy's 2004
championing of a new public sociology, a variety of geographies are now
emerging which call themselves 'public'. For example: in his capacity
as 2003-4 president of the AAG, Alexander Murphy organised a forum on
' The role of geography in public debate ' (published in 2005) and
delivered his presidential address on ' Enhancing Geography's role in
public debate ' (published in 2006); Derek Gregory and Michael Dear
have embarked on a Very public geographies project, whose aim is to
inject geographers' views on important issues into public debate; Noel
Castree (in press) has been admiring the recent 'public intellectual'
writing of geographers David Harvey, Michael Watts and Neil Smith;
Kevin Ward (in press) has been asking what geographers can learn from
debates about public sociology; and Kathryne Mitchell organised a
remarkably well-attended 8am panel on 'Being and becoming a public
scholar' at the 2006 AAG conference.
A new field of 'public geography' is, it seems, taking shape. So, for
this symposium, we have given our speakers a simple brief: to talk on
the theme of 'my public geographies, our public geographies'. We have
asked for no titles or abstracts. We're just interested in what they
have to say.
Confirmed speakers:
Don Mitchell (Geography, Syracuse University)
Steve Hinchliffe (Geography, Open University)
Noel Castree (Geography, University of Manchester)
Diane Swift (Geographical Association, Sheffield)
John Bryson, Jon Sadler & Rossa Donovan (Geography, University of
Birmingham)
Jane Wills (Geography, Queen Mary, University of London)
Kevin Ward (Geography, University of Manchester)
Duncan Fuller (Geography, Northumbria University)
Confirmed discussants:
Fiona Smith (Geography, Dundee University)
Jonathan Breckon (Royal Geographical Society)
Ian Cook et al. (Geography, University of Birmingham)
Fees:
Registration, refreshments & lunch: £45 waged / £25 unwaged/student.
More details:
Programme, booking, travel and other details can be found at
www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/seminars.htm
Wider participation:
Given the reactions to this symposium that were provoked by our first
announcement, we are currently working on ways in which those not able
to attend can find out what was said and contribute to the discussions.
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Ian Cook, Helen Griffiths, Joanne Harvatt, Becky Morris & Emily Quinton
Symposium Committee
Public Geographies Working Group
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/pgwg/index.htm
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