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May 15th session on turning a PhD or postdoc into a monograph

The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group would like to invite you to an informal online lunchtime session on May 15th, 13:00-14;00 (UK time), discussing issues around converting your PhD / postdoc into a monograph – whether to do it, how to do it, how to find a publisher, what the current open access requirements are, and much more. The session is primarily aimed at PhD and early career researchers, but everyone is welcome. You do not need to be a member of the HPGRG research group to attend – all are welcome.  

We are very lucky to have three amazing scholars, with huge amounts of expertise in this area, leading the session:

1. Dr Ruth Craggs – Co-Editor of the RGS-IBG monograph series, and Reader in Political and Historical Geography at Kings College London.

    2. Dr Anna Lawrence – Academic Publications Managing Editor of the RGS-IBG.

    3. Prof. Peter Merriman – Editor of the Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity book series, and Professor in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University

    The session will be informal and primarily driven by yourselves and any questions, thoughts, or worries you might have. The session does not assume any prior knowledge or experience in academic publishing. 

    It is essential to register in advance for this meeting, using the following link: https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUscO-grzkvG9ySMFJm6YqQ_fo1KvyJKMkt

    If you have any questions, please get in touch with Julian Brigstocke (brigstockej@cardiff.ac.uk).

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    Open Postgraduate and ECR Meeting, 8th January

    The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the RGS-IBG invite postgraduate/early career researchers to an informal online seminar. This will be held at 1400-1600 (GMT) on Monday 8th January 2024. We invite attendees to briefly introduce their research (5-7 minutes). Your research may be at any stage from initial idea to completed projects. The seminar will be informal and primarily aims to offer early career researchers an opportunity to get to know other researchers, both in the UK and across the world, who work in related fields. Thus, the aim is for the session to be relaxed and convivial, with plenty of time for conversation. We would also love to hear your views about how the HPGRG can support early career researchers through future events, whether online or face to face.

    If you would like to attend (whether or not you wish to present) it is essential that you register here before December 15thhttps://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvfuCrrzMsGdByeWFJTcBlGN2-xa5qM9Rk

    If you have any queries, please contact our postgraduate representative Nivedita Singh (nivedita1116@gmail.com) and/or (BrigstockeJ@Cardiff.ac.uk)

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    Online Conference: GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIVITIES 

    Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group. Date 14th April 2023

    This conference marks the publication of Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt’s recent work, Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice (2022), the follow up instalment to Franz Boas, The Emergence of the Anthropologist (2019).

    Franz Boas (1858 – 1942) has been memorialized for his important role in fostering of cultural relativity, a key research methodology in social anthropology. Yet, as a boy, Boas was interested in geography. Later, at the time of his doctoral studies his interests swung from physics to anthropology, a move that was sealed during his 1883-84 fieldwork on Baffin Island. Boas also authored an early paper about geography (1887). However, with a few exceptions (Bravo 2009; Powell 2015) Boas has received less attention from geographers and historians of geography, and his fashioning of the geographies of geography has been little explored. Why was this so? In what ways does Boas’ own disciplinary shift inform the epistemological, disciplinary and institutional flux of the twin disciplines of fin-de-siècle anthropology and geography? With him we can examine the tensions between anthropogeography, geography and anthropology (and ethnology) in universities and other institutions such as savant societies and museums. We can also locate where he fits into the longer running entanglement of anthropogeography, cultural ecology in anthropology, and political ecology. 

    This conference affords the chance to share reflections on the place or absence of Boas in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century geographical and historical geographical research. The evolutionism, historicism, cosmography and the productive dynamism of attempts to reconcile understandings of local conditions and universality seen in Boas’ works are similarly features in late nineteenth-century geographers, including anarchist geographers. It explores wider concepts, and practices, of relativity in geography and historical geography. In addition, it asks what the shift in Boas’ interests tells us about broader disciplinary and institutional transformations, and how these might inform the relationships between emergent geographical practices and practitioners and those in cultural ecology, and cultural, social and physical anthropology. It seeks to reflect upon the spatial aspects of his thought and his spatializing practices. The papers in this conference address Boas’ work on race and anthropometric measurements, his subsequent resonance across the transnational histories of geographical theory, as well as methods and practice around the turn of the 19th and 20th century in British and European thought and practice. They attend to the places and subsequent resonance of his ideas across the interdisciplinary fields of geography, anthropology and their shifting places within wider epistemic maps. Other papers bring to light broader historical geographies of relativist geographical, ‘cultural’ or other, frames of understanding. 

    The conference is open to both faculty and postgraduate students and will take place online on Friday 14th April from 15h00 – 18h00 (GMT)

    Geographical Relativities conference Eventbrite page: 

    https://www.eventbrite.com/x/geographical-relativities-tickets-592258098917

    For further information, please email: Dr Emily Hayes (Oxford Brookes University): ehayes@brookes.ac.uk

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    HPGRG Dissertation Prize 2019 Announced

    We are delighted to announce that the dissertation prize panel recommended a joint award of the prize to two dissertations of exceptionally high quality. The joint winners of this year’s prize are Olivia Russell (University of Edinburgh) and Mitchell Wilson (University of Bristol).

    Olivia Russel’s dissertation, Geography, Cartography and Military Intelligence: Gertrude Campbell’s Cartographic Work for the Royal Geographical Society in 1913 to 1918, is a study of archival material relating to the life and cartographic work of Gertrude Bell, focusing on her contributions to military intelligence in World War I through cartographic work in ‘Arabia’. The work presents a nuanced, multiple understanding of Bell and her activities. Empirical chapters are structured through three key themes (informed by a critical engagement with literature) and demonstrate keen attention to detail in the use of evidence and construction of arguments. Overall, the dissertation draws on a great range of primary source material from the archives of the RGS, using these to consider issues around both colonialism and the role of women in the production of geographical knowledge. It thus responds to very contemporary questions about structural issues within the discipline. This is a standout dissertation addressing the history of geography, which adds to calls for the inclusion of ‘all marginalised knowledges’ within a critical historiography of the discipline.

    Mitchell Wilson’s dissertation, Expanding the Empirical Repertoire of Non-Representational Theory Through a Methodological Reflection on Creating a Documentary Film, presents a theoretically sophisticated discussion of Geography’s relation to film-making, and takes direction from a range of multi-disciplinary work (including non-representational theory and visual culture), making new connections between them. It then embarks on the production of a documentary film to demonstrate how film-making techniques can be used to engineer affect, thus moving beyond ‘critique’ to become productive. The documentary, which is very thoughtfully curated and presented, explores the art and subversive qualities of drag through the performances of Ty Jeffries. This is then used to explore the nature of ‘hope’ in the Anthropocene: a discussion which simultaneously seems somewhat tangential and yet in keeping with the “ephemerality and transitory nature” of the research. Overall the work is remarkable in its level of sophisticated and critical engagement with literature; in its care and attention to detail; and in its sensitivity. It forms an important contribution to discussions around videographic geographies, presenting astute readings of Spinoza to think hope as ‘unsteady joy’.

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    Agenda for the AGM at RGS-IBG 2019

    13:10 to 14:25, Friday, 30  August,  Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Lowther Room

    1. Apologies
    1. Minutes of 2018 AGM (HJ)
    1. HPGRG Sessions for 2019 (FF)
    1. HPGRG Research Group Guests for 2019 (HJ)
    1. HPGRG Accounts (JB)
    1. HPGRG Dissertation Prize (PC)
    1. HPGRG Membership (FG)
    1. HPGRG Website (TJ)
    1. HPGRG Communications and Newsletter (MvM)
    1. Committee Membership Terms and Elections (HJ)
    1. HPGRG Information Sheet on Job Roles (HJ)
    1. 35th HPGRG anniversary in 2020 (HJ)
    1. Possible Research Group Activities (ALL)
    1. Call for Sessions for 2020 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (HJ)
    1. Any Other Business
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    Newsletter 2019 #2 out now

    The latest issue of our newsletter is now out!

    This newsletter contains, among other things, the agenda of our HPGRG Annual General Meeting at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in London next week and a list of HPGRG-sponsored sessions during this event. You are cordially invited to attend the HPGRG AGM and the HPGRG-sponsored sessions, but the latter require official conference registration, while the former could be attended with an AGM visitor pass only (please see message from the HPGRG chair in the newsletter).

    We hope that you will find this second HPGRG newsletter of interest and look forward to your contributions to future editions – the third HPGRG newsletter of this year is due to be published in the autumn of 2019.

    You can see all our newsletters here.

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    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 the committee and its activities to attend; we’d very much welcome people who want to become involved in – and expand on – the group’s activities.

    The agenda will be posted on here in advance of the meeting.

     

     

     

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    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 of Geography‘.

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    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 remit, interpreted broadly, as the histories and/or philosophies of human geography, physical geography and associated fields. We particularly welcome session proposals that seek to engage with geography’s theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, past, present, and future.

    HPGRG sponsorship can provide promotion for your session, help manage timetabling clashes, and enable bidding for funding for research group guests and awards for postgraduate presenters in your sessions.

    Please send the following information to HPGRG Secretary Isla Forsyth and HPGRG Chair Paul Simpson by Wednesday, 19th December 2014:

    – title of proposed session (up to 15 words), name and affiliation of organizers, and abstract of c. 200-300 words

    – indication of proposed format (e.g. papers or panel discussion, number of papers, use of discussants; for possibilities of session formats, see here)

    – number of 1h 40 minutes slots requested (note, sessions may not normally occupy more than two timeslots in the conference programme)

    We will inform session organizers about HPGRG sponsorship and further procedures in early January. The deadline for submitting complete sessions to the Society is 20th February 2015. This would leave about six weeks for session organisers to send out a call for papers and finalise the session programme.

    Please direct any questions to Isla Forsyth.

    The HPGRG committee looks forward to your submissions!

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    Agenda for the HPGRG AGM at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014

    Annual General Meeting 2014

    13:10 to 14:25, Thursday 28 August 2014
    COUNCIL ROOM, RGS-IBG

    Agenda

    1. Apologies (Richard Powell)
    2. Minutes of 2013 AGM
    3. HPGRG Sessions for 2014 (Heike Jöns and Isla Forsyth)
    4. HPGRG Research Group Guests for 2014 (Heike Jöns)
    5. HPGRG Accounts (Sam Kinsley)
    6. HPGRG Dissertation Prize (Pauline Couper; Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi; Heike Jöns)
    7. HPGRG Website (Thomas Jellis)
    8. HPGRG Membership update (Paul Simpson)
    9. Ideas for HPGRG Workshop for 2015 (Richard Powell)
    10. Call for Sessions for 2015 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, University of Exeter (Richard Powell)
    11. Discussion of Committee Roles and Responsibilities (Richard Powell)
    12. Committee Membership Terms and Elections (Richard Powell)
      • Chair
      • Secretary
      • Membership Secretary
    13. Any Other Business