Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to announce that the University of Calgary is hosting the 13th Annual Critical Geographies Mini-Conference (formerly known as the Cascadia Critical Geographies Mini-Conference) with the support of the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, the interdisciplinary research network UC Cities, and graduate student organizations. The conference will be held on traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy. The city of Calgary is also the home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III and will work towards inclusion of non-academic knowledges. We hope the unique geographies of Southern Alberta will provide potential topics for scholarly work and excellent opportunities for diverse knowledges and the arts to be engaged. This year, the conference will be organized around the idea of “crisis”: ecological crisis, political crisis, urban crisis, humanitarian crisis, and socio-technical crisis are among the many specific topics that may be covered. Tiffany Muller-Myrdhal, Senior Lecturer of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, has agreed to be our keynote speaker. The event will take place on Saturday, September 29, 2018, with an evening of pre-events on September 28nd. Please mark your calendars now and start encouraging your grad students to attend. For geographers who have not ventured to Calgary, this is your chance! Please note that travel within Canada can be costly– early planning is encouraged. Travel to Calgary from Vancouver, for example, is approximately 10.5 hours by car and 1.5 hours via flights offered by both WestJet and Air Canada. Roundtrip tickets from Vancouver are often about $350 CDN though seat sales regularly bring the prices down. Consistent with the long-standing goals of this conference, the emphasis is on creating a fun, engaging, and friendly atmosphere that embraces an unsettling of the “traditional” conference structure. We look forward to a wide range of spatially-oriented critical scholarship and encourage creative work on various themes from geography and other disciplines. There is no fee to attend the conference and graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. We are currently exploring the possibility of providing a select number of (partial) scholarships to cover specific expenses related to the trip. The conference website (including registration, abstract submission page, directions, and accommodation information) will be “live” in July. This year's conference will be a recognized GREEN EVENT! Look for compost and recycling bins during the coffee breaks and lunch. No plastic bottles will be provided, and all sandwiches will be vegetarian to reduce our carbon footprint (we encourage you to bring your own mug and reusable bottles). Finally, please circulate this call to interested colleagues, students, and other 'critters'. Feel free to contact Dr. Ryan Burns ( [log in to unmask]) directly if you have any specific questions. Many thanks, Ricardo Barbosa, Jr.; Danilo Borja; Kristy Myles (alphabetical) On behalf of the Event Planning Committee -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1