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The Political Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG is pleased to extend an invitation to sponsor sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in London (28 – 30 August 2013). The chair of the 2013 conference is Professor Jonathan Rigg (Durham University) and the theme is ‘New geographical frontiers’. The full call for sessions can…
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The 2012 AGM for the Political Geography Research Group was held during the recent RGS-IBG Conference in Edinburgh. It was great to see so many members and non-members in attendance and this is undoubtedly testament to the very healthy state of UK and international political geography. Attached here are the unconfirmed minutes from that meeting.…
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The PolGRG will be holding its third annual workshop on April 23rd and 24th 2012 at the University of Exeter. The workshop aims to bring together established academics, PhD students and early career researchers in order to share research, methodological ideas and key skills. The event is open to all political geographers but we especially…
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The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) is the research group of the RGS-IBG that brings together geographers and others interested in a wide variety of issues connected with relationships between space and power.
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‘The RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group workshop ‘Why does political geography matter?’ was held at Newcastle University on 6th-7th January 2011. The event was organised by Alex Jeffrey, Fiona McConnell, Nick Megoran and Alison Williams, and was supported by the Power, Space, Politics research cluster in Geography. The two day workshop was attended by 39…
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Geographical perspectives on food, water and energy security to 2030 February 2011, 09.45 – 16.00, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR NB: all speakers named are confirmed 09.15 Registration and Coffee 09.45 Introduction Dr Rita Gardner, Director, RGS-IBG Morning Chair: 09.50 Session 1: Background Climate change context: Research background: 10.30 Session…
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‘Why does political geography matter?’ This workshop will take place at Newcastle University, 6-7th January, 2011 and will include; – plenary sessions with Louise Amoore, Alan Ingram and Rhys Jones – reading groups on recently-published papers – two postgrad/postdoc research paper sessions – a session on teaching political geographies The workshop is free to attend and there will…
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The RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group are pleased to announce the political geography workshop 2011. It will take place at Newcastle University, 6-7th January, 2011. As agreed at the first workshop, at UCL in 2009, the topic this time will be, ‘Why does political geography matter?’ Formats will include invited plenary sessions, reading groups on…
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AAG 2009: ‘Back to the Future’: Primitive Accumulation and Contemporary Capitalism Session Organizers: Marc Auerbach and Rohit Negi, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University.
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Please find below a call for papers for the session ‘Educating the cosmopolitan national: Negotiating memory and conflict in making democratic citizens’ at the American Association of Geographers’ Conference 2009. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please contact Dan Hammett (D.Hammett@ed.ac.uk) or Lynn Staeheli (Lynn.staeheli@ed.ac.uk) ————————————–