For all our postgraduates, please see below for details of the Conference, the recently launched PhD Life Blog, and the Forum’s social media presence: Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conference, Newcastle University, 17/18 March 2016. Full details and the call for papers can be found at http://www.pgf.rgs.org/mid-term-conference-2016-main/ The deadline is 27 November 2015. PhD Life Blog – The… Continue reading Postgraduate Forum Conference, Blog, and Social Media
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Agenda for the HPGRG AGM at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2015
13:10 to 14:25, Wednesday 2 September, Forum – Seminar Room 1, University of Exeter Agenda Apologies Minutes of 2014 AGM HPGRG Sessions for 2015 (Paul Simpson) HPGRG Research Group Guests for 2015 (Paul Simpson) HPGRG Accounts (Sam Kinsley) HPGRG Dissertation Prize (Paul Simpson) HPGRG Website (Thomas Jellis) HPGRG Membership update (Julian Brigstocke) HPGRG Workshop for… Continue reading Agenda for the HPGRG AGM at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2015
Forthcoming AGM at the RGS-IBG
This year, our AGM will take place on Wednesday 2 September, at 13:10 in Forum – Seminar Room 1 at the University of Exeter (it’s also listed in the conference programme). While we do not have any committee members with named roles coming to the end of their term we encourage anyone who is interested in becoming involved in… Continue reading Forthcoming AGM at the RGS-IBG
Reminder: Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
Entries are invited for the HPGRG undergraduate dissertation prize. The prize of £50 will be awarded for the best dissertation in the histories and/or philosophies of geography or associated fields. Nominations are requested from Dissertation Supervisors or Heads of Department. The dissertation should have been completed within the past two years and be written in… Continue reading Reminder: Undergraduate Dissertation Prize
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship International networks and cosmopolitan science: Geographical Societies and Greenland, c.1880 to 1939 Applications are invited for an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA), supervised jointly at the University of Oxford and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The project is full-time, funded for three years and begins in October 2015.… Continue reading Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship
Updated session information
We have updates for two of our sponsored sessions: The first is that due to the number of ‘watery’ sessions for the conference, the respective session organizers have combined as a series; accordingly, what was ‘Water worlds’ is now ‘Wet Geographies III‘. The second is that there are now details available concerning our own session, ‘Practising philosophies… Continue reading Updated session information
Sponsored sessions announced for RGS-IBG 2015
We are delighted to announce that the HPGRG is sponsoring a range of exciting sessions at the forthcoming Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG, in Exeter in September 2015. There is now a separate section to the website – found in the header above – which links to all the sessions. Alternatively, you can click here… Continue reading Sponsored sessions announced for RGS-IBG 2015
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 32 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the… Continue reading 2014 in review
HPGRG Dissertation Prize Winner 2014
The HPGRG committee are pleased to announce the winner of the annual dissertation prize. First prize: Sebastian Koa (University of Oxford) “Propositions for a radically empirical geomorphology” Commendation: Max Kirchner (University of Bristol) “Speaking truth to power: Theorising Edward Snowden’s Whistleblowing through Michel Foucault’s concepts of parrhesia and the event” A list of all the previous winners… Continue reading HPGRG Dissertation Prize Winner 2014
Call for Sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2015
The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) invites suggestions for 12 sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015 in Exeter from 2nd to 4th September 2015. The conference will focus on Geographies of the Anthropocene and be chaired by Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford). We welcome suggestions for sessions across our… Continue reading Call for Sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2015