RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011: Call for HGRG-Sponsored Sessions
Location: RGS-IBG London
Dates: 31st Aug – 2nd Sep
Conference theme: the geographical imagination
Visualisation, mapping, environmental reconstruction, landscape symbolism, terrain modelling, place picturing, virtual worlds, visionary worlds, cultural ecologies, climatic scenarios, patterned ground, sites of representation, image making, theory building, field observation…so many subjects and methods, topics and technologies, across the broad spectrum of geography, are powerfully shaped by a geographical imagination.
The conference will explore many dimensions of the geographical imagination, including its histories and futures, meanings and materials, pleasures and politics, practices and effects. We welcome sessions and papers on the place of the imagination in geography’s many fields of enquiry, including multi-disciplinary fields within and beyond geography, and those which engage with a wider public.
Contributors are invited to address both traditional and experimental aspects of the geographical imagination, its down to earthness as well as its sense of adventure, its role in creating factual, measurable and practical knowledge as well as conjectural and speculative findings. We also welcome contributions which explore the geographical imagination as a medium of communication and dissemination, crossing communities within and beyond geography, and its role in making an impact in a wider world.
Deadline for submission of convened sessions and abstracts: 21st February 2011
For further information about RGS-IBG 2011 please see http://www.rgs.org/HomePage.htm
Call for HGRG-sponsored sessions: Proposals are invited for HGRG-sponsored sessions on any area of historical geography. Proposals by postgraduates are encouraged.
Proposals for sponsored sessions should be submitted to the HGRG by 5th December 2010
For queries about HGRG sponsorship or to submit proposals please contact Heidi Scott (HGRG Secretary).
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