Archive: Calls

• Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography

Please find below a link for a call for papers for the Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, held at the University of Warwick on 27-28 November, 2014.

 

http://geographywarwickteam.tumblr.com/

 

Three travel grants of up to £250 each for non-UK attendees are made available by Warwick’s politics department. All potential participants should submit a title, abstract (of no more than 300 words), and evidence of institutional affiliation by 25 October, 2014 to the organisers: Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira and Mara Duer (politicalgeographywarwick@gmail.com).

• 21st Annual Critical Geography Conference: How Power Happens

Call for Papers and Sessions

 

21st Annual Critical Geography Conference: How Power Happens

 

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, November 7-9, 2014

 
Hosted by Temple University’s Department of Geography and Urban Studies, the 21st Annual Critical Geography Conference hopes to include a wide array of scholars and activists doing work in critical geography. This year’s overarching theme connotes an exploration of how we understand, follow, imagine, feel, utilize, yield to and alter the workings of power. Power has been theorized from the top down and the bottom up, as structure and as capillary, as productive and destructive, and as both immaterial and material. We hope to use geography’s diverse engagements with power as an entry point for generating discussions across the ‘divides’ of critical geography – specifically divides between approaches attending to structural forces, focusing on knowledge production and meaning making, and/or tracing power into bodies and matter/materiality. As our logo seeks to make clear, the conference locates the question of “how power happens?” at the core of these three areas of inquiry, and calls upon critical geographers to create fruitful conversation and debate within the apparent areas of overlap.
 
The conference will begin on Friday, November 7th, 2014. The opening evening will feature a keynote address by Dr. Mona Domosh from the Department of Geography at Dartmouth College.
 
The program on Saturday, November 8th and Sunday, November 9th will consist of paper sessions, panels, round table discussions, and sessions with alternative formats.
 
We invite you to submit abstracts or proposals for sessions, by the deadline of August 10, 2014. Abstracts or proposals should be 250 words in length, and we ask that you include contact information and any titles or affiliations you would like placed in the program. Sessions may include papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, performances, or sessions with alternative formats. We are especially interested in participants organizing their own sessions, and we also want to encourage perspectives and styles of communication from beyond the academy. If you would like to organize a session, please let us know in advance and you can then issue a CFP through the appropriate mailing lists. Papers submitted individually will be reviewed by the program committee after August 20, and will be accepted for committee-organized sessions as space allows. Please send your abstract or proposal to Sarah Stinard-Kiel at sarah.sk@temple.edu
 
Further information on the conference, including accommodations, program, and conference events will be updated on the conference web site as the information becomes available, www.tucriticalgeography.org. You can also find updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tucriticalgeography. Please feel free to email any further questions to the conference planning committee via Sarah Stinard-Kiel at sarah.sk@temple.edu or Allison Hayes-Conroy at anhc@temple.edu. The conference will be a caregiver and child friendly space.

• Deadline postponed Borders at the Interface

Borders at the Interface: Bordering Europe, Africa and the Middle East

December 7-11, 2014 — Beer Sheeva & Jerusalem

 

The final date for abstracts submission is July 15, 2014

 

Please find more information here

 

• Deadline extended EAST – WEST BORDERSCAPES

The deadline for registration at the EAST – WEST BORDERSCAPES has been extended to JUNE 15.
 
Please find here the second call for proposal

• EAST – WEST BORDERSCAPES CONFERENCE

On behalf of Dr Sergio Zilli, Prof. Anton Gosar and Prof. Elena dell’Agnese, we are very pleased to announce you the forthcoming Conference on East-West Borderscapes in Trieste and Koper/Cobarid 2-4 October 2014 (see attached file).

 

Please fill in the registration form before June 15 also if you consider to join the conference without presenting any paper.

 

EAST – WEST BORDERSCAPES.

IMPRINTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE EUROPEAN BORDER LANDSCAPES

Trieste, Italy / Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia

October 2 – 4, 2014

 

From October 2 – 4, 2014, the Association of Slovenian Geographers (ZGS), in co-operation with the Association of Italian Geographers (AGEI), the University of Trieste (UNITS), Italy and the University of Primorska (UP) will host the meeting of the IGU’s Commission on Political Geography (IGU CPG).  The conference will elaborate on spatial imprints of WW 1 on the European border areas. The meeting will consist of sessions and one-day excursion (including field-work related sessions). The conference locations are Trieste, Italy and Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia; the excursion will take participants to the WW 1 Isonzo battle fields, the EU award winning WW 1 museum in Kobarid, Slovenia and to places where post-WW 1 imprints of the have left substantial marks in the natural, cultural and political landscape of Europe. After the closing of the IGU CPG conference a round table discussion on Dark Tourism is envisioned at the location of the Faculty of Tourism Studies TURISTICA in Portorož-Portorose, Slovenia.

 

Subject:

The centennial of the beginning of WW 1 is the occasion to discuss the war tragedies and multiple effects of the post-WW1 political decisions. The spatial arrangements after WW1 have strengthened new political players in Europe and have produced new spaces of confrontation. For example, in the Alps-Adriatic Europe the fragmentation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the geographical enlargement of the Italian Kingdom, and the evolution of Central European nation-states, induced by the US democratic ideals, have produced new borders and a variety of states on Europe’s political map. The post-WW 1 peace settlements in Europe are by some academicians and politicians still considered as unjust. Ethnic, economic and political boundaries do not coincide; the quest for territory was for a substantial amount of time the urge of irredentist fascist, national-socialist and communist regimes in the post-WW1 and WW2 era.

 

Building on a tradition of previous borderscape conferences, we are looking forward to examine the relationship between spaces of governance in places where substantial change has taken place (as the result of the winning powers). This conference will explore how the post-WW 1 order has impacted the European geographical space and their cultural substance. Political and cultural geography will be the mainframe of the conference. The conference should particular identify major arrangements which have been and still are experienced in the European border areas:

 

• Spatial and political imprints of past empires;
• Spatial and political imprints of post-WW1 nationalism;
• Imprints of WW1 and post-WW1 arrangements in contemporary politics, culture and economy.

 

Case studies from all European borderscapes are welcome. The discussion, and in particular the excursion, will take into consideration the reality of the Alps-Adriatic region where the “Battle of Caporetto” (Kobarid) became synonymous for a total defeat of a nation (for a short while). Other similar European topics and, in particular cross-cultural comparisons of imprints left in border spaces by war and post-WW 1 arrangements are welcome. We would also like to place the attention to the general political, ethnic and economic spheres resulting out of brutal facts as closed borders have for decades separated nations. Illegal migration turned, with the loosening of the regimes, into shopping tourism and finally into tourism with motives related to the WW 1 confrontation areas and arrangements resulting out of it. Key-note speakers will be invited.

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

• Borders at the Interface – Jerusalem

BORDERS AT THE INTERFACE:

BORDERING EUROPE, AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

 

International Workshop

In Cooperation with the FP7 EUROBORDERSCAPES Consortium

Sponsored by the IGU Commission on Political Geography

 

DECEMBER 7 – 11

Beer Sheva and Jerusalem, Israel

 

FIRST CIRCULAR

In its geopolitical context, Israel is located at the interface of three major regions – Europe, Asia (the Middle East part of Asia) and Africa. The region itself is the interface of regions, cultures and the worlds great monotheistic religions, partly explaining the fact that it continues to be one of the world’s geopolitical shatterbelts and the focus for ethnic, religious and territorial conflict.

As well as being an interface, it is also a transition region, where cultures and peoples have mixed as they cross from one area to another. It is as much as cross-border region as it is a border , and this is reflected in culture, language and food.  Hybridity and meeting is reflected in notions of  Eurasia and Mediterranean as alternative places for cultural mixing along with political conflict.

 

In cooperation with the FP7 consortium on Euroborderscapes, the newly founded Geopolitics Chair at Ben-Gurion University, along with three dynamic research centers, the Herzog center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) and the Tamar Golan center for African Studies invite scholars with an interest in borders and in any one of the relevant regions to submit papers for an international workshop aimed focusing on the interface between the three regions. This will take place as part of the ever growing community of border scholars worldwide, ranging across the borders of the  academic disciplines and examining the changing significances and functions of borders as they cross cultures.

 

 

Tentative Itinerary

Dec 7-8: – FP7 Workshop and Meetings

Dec 8-9: – Conference Sessions, Ben-Gurion University

Dec 10: Field Trip – Borders and Geopolitics in Israel / Palestine

Dec 11: AM –Field Trip –  Borders, Territory and Conflict in Jerusalem

Dec 11: PM – Conference Sessions, Jerusalem.

The conference will start in Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, will include two geopolitical field trips in areas of cultural and political contestation within Israel/Palestine and Jerusalem, and will conclude its final sessions in Jerusalem.

 

Scholars are invited to submit abstracts on the conference themes to the following email address:  reneny@post.bgu.ac.il no later than May 30, 2014.

 

There will be a conference fee of $120 to cover the main organizational costs and conference dinner. The  field trips will be covered by the conference organizers. Participants will cover their own travel and accommodation costs. If we succeed in raising enough sponsorship to cover other costs, the registration fee will be returned.

 

Final technical details and a Conference Website, will be sent in a second circular in June 2014.

 

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

 

Name:

Affiliation:

Email:

Title of Abstract:

Abstract:

 

 

• East – West Borderscapes

EAST – WEST BORDERSCAPES.

IMPRINTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE EUROPEAN BORDER LANDSCAPES

Trieste, Italy / Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia

October 2 – 4, 2014

 

From October 2 – 4, 2014, the Association of Slovenian Geographers (ZGS), in co-operation with the Association of Italian Geographers (AGEI), the University of Trieste (UNITS), Italy and the University of Primorska (UP) will host the meeting of the IGU’s Commission on Political Geography (IGU CPG).  The conference will elaborate on spatial imprints of WW 1 on the European border areas. The meeting will consist of sessions and one-day excursion (including field-work related sessions). The conference locations are Trieste, Italy and Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia; the excursion will take participants to the WW 1 Isonzo battle fields, the EU award winning WW 1 museum in Kobarid, Slovenia and to places where post-WW 1 imprints of the have left substantial marks in the natural, cultural and political landscape of Europe. After the closing of the IGU CPG conference a round table discussion on Dark Tourism is envisioned at the location of the Faculty of Tourism Studies TURISTICA in Portorož-Portorose, Slovenia.

 

Subject:

The centennial of the beginning of WW 1 is the occasion to discuss the war tragedies and multiple effects of the post-WW1 political decisions. The spatial arrangements after WW1 have strengthened new political players in Europe and have produced new spaces of confrontation. For example, in the Alps-Adriatic Europe the fragmentation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the geographical enlargement of the ItalianKingdom, and the evolution of Central European nation-states, induced by the US democratic ideals, have produced new borders and a variety of states on Europe’s political map. The post-WW 1 peace settlements in Europe are by some academicians and politicians still considered as unjust. Ethnic, economic and political boundaries do not coincide; the quest for territory was for a substantial amount of time the urge of irredentist fascist, national-socialist and communist regimes in the post-WW1 and WW2 era.

 

Building on a tradition of previous borderscape conferences, we are looking forward to examine the relationship between spaces of governance in places where substantial change has taken place (as the result of the winning powers). This conference will explore how the post-WW 1 order has impacted the European geographical space and their cultural substance. Political and cultural geography will be the mainframe of the conference. The conference should particular identify major arrangements which have been and still are experienced in the European border areas:

 

• Spatial and political imprints of past empires;
• Spatial and political imprints of post-WW1 nationalism;
• Imprints of WW1 and post-WW1 arrangements in contemporary politics, culture and economy.

 

Case studies from all European borderscapes are welcome. The discussion, and in particular the excursion, will take into consideration the reality of the Alps-Adriatic region where the “Battle of Caporetto” (Kobarid) became synonymous for a total defeat of a nation (for a short while). Other similar European topics and, in particular cross-cultural comparisons of imprints left in border spaces by war and post-WW 1 arrangements are welcome. We would also like to place the attention to the general political, ethnic and economic spheres resulting out of brutal facts as closed borders have for decades separated nations. Illegal migration turned, with the loosening of the regimes, into shopping tourism and finally into tourism with motives related to the WW 1 confrontation areas and arrangements resulting out of it. Key-note speakers will be invited.

 

Find HERE conference program and registration form

• 14th International ‘Lodz’ Political Geography Conference

Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies

 

University of Lodz and Silesian Institute in Opole

 

invite you to participate in

 

14th International ‘Lodz’ Political Geography Conference and Workshop of the Political Geography Commision of the International Geographical Union.

 
 

With a necessity to define the number of participants of the conference “Geographical-political aspects of the transborder conservation of natural and cultural heritage” for booking of accommodation and also determine subjects of the presentations in preliminary program, the organisers kindly ask the participants to send all needed information on a registration form till March 31, 2014.

• BRIT Borders Regions in Transition

Next November, four universities – the Catholic University of Louvain, the University of Artois,  the University of Côte d’Opale and the University of Lille  – will host the fourteenth BRIT (Borders Regions in Transition) international symposium, from November 4th to 7th 2014.
 
The 14th BRIT symposium, which main theme will be « The Border: a Source of Innovation?”will be part of the duty to remember, 100 years after the declaration of the Great War. Its underlying objective is to show the evolution of the border in its materiality: from one border, once a front , to another one, today open and the motor of dynamics and innovations.

 

The description of the conference, the list of the sessions, the committees and the current budget are detailed on http://www.brit2014.org/?lang=en.

Grants will be available for PhD students

 

Call for papers until March, 15.

Welcome!

 

Border Regions in Transition « the border : a source of innovation »

International Conference (université d’Artois  – Université de Lille1 – Université catholique de Louvain Mons)
 
November, 4 to 7, 2014
 
www.brit2014.org

27th Annual PGSG Pre-conference – USF Tampa April 7, 2014