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CFP The International Time Geography Days 2014

Time: May 14-16
Place: Linköping University, Sweden

We invite researchers whose work is inspired by the time-geographic approach to submit an abstract to the first occasion of the International Time-Geography Days. These will be held 14-16 May 2014 at Linköping University, Sweden.

We hope to capture a wide range of research questions to which the time-geographic approach can be applied usefully. This striving for a diversity of research fields is a follow up of Torsten Hägerstrand’s vision of time-geography as an “all-ecological” (or “socio-ecological”) approach that can bring researchers from different scientific disciplines together in fruitful conversations.

The conference will bring together researchers from many disciplines working in a diversity of research fields inspired by time-geography, including
- transportation,
- urban studies,
- social work,
- everyday life,
- public health research,
- visualization and GIS,
- innovation,
- landscape,
- climate research, and
- other time-geographically inspired research areas.

Please send your abstract to Professor Kajsa Ellegård ([log in to unmask]) and to Eva Danielsson ([log in to unmask]) no later than 10 February 2014. Questions about the conference can be directed towards Professor Kajsa Ellegård ([log in to unmask]). Questions about practical arrangements can be directed towards Eva Danielsson ([log in to unmask]). More information will be posted on the conference webpage (see also below).

On behalf of the scientific committee,

Kajsa Ellegård

Scientific committee members:
Kajsa Ellegård, Professor, Linköping University, Sweden
Bo Lenntorp, Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden
Shih-Lung Shaw, Professor, University of Tennessee, USA
Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford, UK
Elin Wihlborg, Professor, Linköping University, Sweden


The International Time-Geography Days 2014

The introductory key note speech will be given by Professor Bo Lenntorp, Stockholm University, Sweden, who was among the first to be recruited by Hägerstrand to his research group in the 1960s.

Apart from presentations and discussions the conference will also will comprise an excursion to Asby parish, to give an overview of the region that, half a century ago, inspired Torsten Hägerstrand to develop the time-geographic approach. May usually is one of the most beautiful months of the year in Sweden, and the excursion in the landscape, with its small agglomerations of population making their living from the local resources and from commuting to urban labor markets, will hopefully be a nice experience.
During the conference, there will be opportunities to visit the Torsten Hägerstrand room in the Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change, in which books, manuscripts, photos and notes left by Torsten Hägerstrand are kept.

The intention is for the International Time-Geography Days to serve as a starting point of an international network of researchers from a variety of disciplines and a resource for contacts and inspiration in the future development of the time-geographical approach.

Practical information
The conference is free of charge (including lunches, dinner and coffee), but you have to pay for your own travel and accommodation. The number of participants is limited to 50.
More information on the conference will soon be posted at the conference webpage (http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-t/tidsgeografi?l=sv).

How to get to Linköping:
By air to Linköping Airport, then take a taxi to the city. It is 5-10 minute drive.
By air to Norrköping airport, then taxi to Norrköping resecentrum and the local train from Norrköping resecentrum to Linköping city. The train takes about 25 minutes.
By air to Arlanda airport (north of Stockholm), then take a train from Arlanda (either direct to Linköping or via Stockholm) to Linköping. The train from Arlanda to Linköping takes 2-2,5 hours.

Suggested accommodation:
Scandic Frimurarhotell: http://www.scandichotels.com/Hotels/Sweden/Linkoping/Scandic-Frimurarehotellet/#.UqGMZeI3Wh4
Hotel du Nord: http://www.hotelldunord.se/index.php?sid=1&lang=en
Valla folkhögskola: http://valla.fhsk.se/in-english/conference-and-accomodations/
Linköpings City Hotel och vandrarhem: http://www.lvh.se/en/index.php

Dr Tim Schwanen

Departmental Lecturer Transport Studies and Human Geography
School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford
OX1 3QY, England
Phone: +44 (0)1865 285503 / 285070

Editor-in-chief, Journal of Transport Geography
Research Fellow St Anne's College
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