Dear all,
It’s that time of year again! The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG) of the RGS-IBG is pleased to extend an invitation to sponsor sessions at the next RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
The conference will be chaired by Professor Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University, UK) on the theme of Climate changed geographies. It will take place online and in London at the Society and Imperial College London, from the evening of Tuesday 29 August to Friday 1 September 2023.
The submission portal will open in early January 2023. The RGS note that there is plenty of capacity for online and in-person sessions, and limited capacity for hybrid sessions. More info available here: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference (rgs.org)
Submissions for the conference close on Friday 17 March 2023. Full guidance for proposing and organising a session can be found at: Royal Geographical Society – Call for sessions, papers and posters (rgs.org). The deadline for session proposal submissions to PolGRG is Friday 24 February 2023 (to give us time to review the proposals before the final submission deadline set by the RGS). Please email submissions to James Riding (james.riding@newcastle.ac.uk), including session title and abstract (max 400 words), name(s) and affiliation(s) of the session convenor(s), contact details, and format of the session. Please also indicate if you are applying or intend to apply for sponsorship with any other research group.
Sessions may take the form of presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions, workshops, or something else. Innovative formats are encouraged. Session convenors will be notified in due course as to whether or not PolGRG will be able to provide sponsorship for your session. We can sponsor up to 16 timeslots. Please bear in mind that sessions cannot occupy more than two slots in the whole programme. If sponsorship can be provided, then you have until Friday 17 March 2023 to provide the full session details (with all proposed papers and presenters) for final submission to the RGS via the online portal found on the conference website: Royal Geographical Society – Annual International Conference (rgs.org)
If you have any specific queries regarding session proposal submissions, please feel free to contact James Riding (james.riding@newcastle.ac.uk).
We look forward to hearing from you!