PLEASE CIRCULATE
IAG Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2-6, 2007
Following the successful IGU/IAG/NZGS combined geography conference held
in Brisbane in mid-2006, the 2007 Institute of Australian Geographers
conference will be held from July 2-6 (The sessions will be 2-4 Jul,
fieldtrips afterward) at the University of Melbourne Parkville campus in
central Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. An emerging website is here:
http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/IAGconference/index.html
There is a conference theme, 'Contemporary Geography FOR Australia',
reflecting a debate sparked by a recent editorial in The Australian on
geography in Australian high-school curricula. As in other countries,
geographical education in schools is a live issue. However the remit of
the conference is international, and proposals for papers and sessions on
a variety of topics and from related disciplines and subdisciplines are
more than welcome.
Proposals are now being sought for organised thematic sessions. The IAG
has various study groups, and ideas are welcomed by those groups, in the
same way that study groups of professional associations often organise
conference sessions. Emails have already been sent around. One such call
from the Environment and Sustainability group is reproduced below.
However in addition, anyone is welcome to organise individual proposals
for sessions at this time. You simply need to send an email to the
Conference steering committee
(http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/IAGconference/index.html) including a
proposed session title, convenor contact details, and an explanatory
paragraph written as a 'call for papers'. These should be forwarded to the
organising committee as soon as possible. Please put these
details in the body of an email, rather than as an attachment. Further
details on the conference - theme sessions, costings, affordable
university and other accomodation, a further call, and other details will
be then published on the website early next year.
Melbourne is built on bayside land (lava flows, Silurian mudstones and
sands) of the Kulin Nation. It is a multicultural city of >3.5m in a
temperate climate - home to numerous events and organizations in the arts,
culture, music, sport, fashion, with much eating/drinking and great
architecture dating back to the 1850s and the Gold Rush. This year was
host to the Commonwealth Games, the G20 summit, Make Poverty History, many
festivals, and plenty of political debate. It is often mentioned (by the
EIU) as one of the world's most 'liveable' cities. City transport for
visitors is excellent - some of it by trams. See
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=269&pg=2325.
Melbourne hosts at least three tertiary geography programs (Melbourne,
Monash, RMIT), and has at 8 universities. The rural geography is described
at http://www.visitvictoria.com.
IN ADDITION The 2007 IAG Postgraduate Day will be held in conjunction with
the annual conference. It aims to address issues of concern to
postgraduate
conference attendees via a selection of presentations and workshops.
Presenters will offer advice on various aspects of the research and
writing process and offer tips for managing the personal side of
postgraduate life. The sessions also aim to provide a comfortable space
for meeting and networking with other postgraduates. We welcome
suggestions from postgraduate students for session topics, and
expressions of interest in presenting a paper or holding a workshop.
Please send to Melanie Thomson: [log in to unmask]
Best wishes
Simon Batterbury UniMelb [log in to unmask]
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Subject: FW: [Iag-list] Invitation: IAG 2007 Environmental Sustainability
StudyGroup specialist session proposals
From: "Nick Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, December 8, 2006 2:34 pm
To: Invitation: IAG 2007 Environmental Sustainability
StudyGroup specialist session proposals
Dear all,
The Institute of Australian Geographers Environmental Sustainability Study
Group is seeking proposals and convenors for specialist sessions or panels
for the July 2007 Institute of Australian Geographers conference in
Melbourne for sponsorship (or co-sponsorship) by the Group.
Specialist session proposals - session title, convenor(s) contact details,
and explanatory paragraph written as a 'call for papers' - can be sent to
[log in to unmask] If you want to discuss a proposal or have an idea that you
want to pursue but need time to pull it together, please email me or call on
02 4221 4165.
Please put these details in the body of an email, rather than as an
attachment. Due date is December 31. Details of ESSG sponsored specialist
sessions will be publicised in January 2007.
I would particularly encourage you to discuss with your colleagues across
the sub-disciplinary divide(s), proposals for sessions that bring together
physical and human geographers (or others) in a productive manner.
Regards
Nick Gill
Convenor ESSG
Dr. Nicholas Gill
School of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522
Australia
Ph: 02 4221 4165
Fax: 02 4221 4250
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/staff/ngill/ng.html
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Dr. Simon Batterbury, senior lecturer,
School of Anthropology, Geography & Environmental Studies (SAGES),
University of Melbourne
221 Bouverie Street, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
tel 61 3 8344 9319. fax 61 3 9349 4218
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http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au http://www.simonbatterbury.net
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