Archive: Agosto 13th, 2015

• IGU Regional conference in Moscow

You can find the programme of the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Moscow at http://www.igu2015.ru/programme

 
For those interested in Political Geography, please note the following sessions of our Commission (C12.33 Commission on Political Geography) and lectures by political geographers:
 
Monday
 
12.30-14.00 Session C12.33 CPG Bordering Eurasia: Politics, Power, and Political Geography 1 (Paul RICHARDSON, Akhinaro IWASHITA) (C202)
 
15.00-16.30 Session C12.33 CPG Bordering Eurasia: Politics, Power, and Political Geography 2 (Paul RICHARDSON, Akhinaro IWASHITA) (C202)
 
17.00-18.30 Session C12.33 CPG Bordering Eurasia: Politics, Power, and Political Geography 3 (Paul RICHARDSON, Akhinaro IWASHITA) (C202)
 
Tuesday
 
9.30-11.00 C12.33 Session C12.33 CPG Problems of Contemporary Political Geography and Geopolitics 1 (Inocent MOYO, Christopher C. NSHIMBI) (C202) 
 
14.00-14.45 Thematic Lecture The spatial control of “vices” in the U.S. military outpost: Value contradictions in a long-term stationing on foreign soil byProfessor Takashi YAMAZAKI (Japan)
 
14.00-15.30 Session C12.33 CPG Problems of Contemporary Political Geography and Geopolitics 2 (Inocent MOYO, Christopher C. NSHIMBI) (C202)
 
16.00-17.30 Session C12.33 CPG Problems of Contemporary Political Geography and Geopolitics 3 (Inocent MOYO, Christopher C. NSHIMBI) (C202)
 
Wednesday
 
9.30-11.00 Session C12.33 CPG Borders and illegalities (Adriana DORFMAN, Elena DELL’AGNESE) (C153)
9.30-11.00 Joint Session C12.20 Commission on the History of Geography & C12.33 Commission on Political Geography Rethinking what (political) geography ought to be: Theories, histories, and practices of geography and geopolitics as instruments of peace 1 (Takashi YAMAZAKI, Alexey POSTNIKOV) (C201)
 
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture Coping With a Fast-Changing, Unstable World: Opportunities and Challenges for Geography by Professor Alexander MURPHY (USA)
 
14.00-15.30 Session C12.33 CPG The critical geopolitics of food (Elena DELL’AGNESE) (C153)
14.00-15.30 Joint Session C12.20 Commission on the History of Geography & C12.33 Commission on Political Geography Rethinking what (political) geography ought to be: Theories, histories, and practices of geography and geopolitics as instruments of peace 2 (Takashi YAMAZAKI, Alexey POSTNIKOV)  (C201)
 
Thursday
 
9.30-11.00 Session C12.33 CPG For Kropotkin (Anthony INCE, Simon SPRINGER) (C237)
 
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture Climate change and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa by Professor John O’LOUGHLIN  (USA)
 
14.00-15.30 Business meeting of the Commission on Political Geography (for any participant interested in Political Geography) (to be confirmed, room tba)
 
Friday
 
9.30-11.00 Joint Session C12.10 Gender & Geography & C12.33 Commission on Political Geography Gender Activisms in Asia: Peoples, Places and Politics(Shirlena HUANG, Chih Yuan WOON) (C225)
 
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture Russian Geography: Specifics, Achievements, Problems by Professor Vladimir KOLOSOV(Russia)
 
14.45-15.30 Thematic Lecture From “pasta” to “poi”: towards a critical geography of food by Professor Elena dell’Agnese (Italy)
 
14.00-15.30 Session C12.33 CPG Russian geopolitics and the former Soviet countries (Takashi YAMAZAKI) (C 225)
 
16.00-18.30 Closing ceremony  (IGU Commission Excellence Award 2015)
 
Wishing all of you able to attend the Regional Conference a smooth trip to Moscow and looking forward to meeting you there.
Kind regards,
Takashi Yamazaki
Virginie Mamadouh
IGU Commission on Political Geography
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