Category: HPGRG News

The inaugural (2021) History and Philosophy of Geography Engagement Award  goes to Harriet Walters who is completing a PhD in English literature at the University of Birmingham for her project ” Mapping Winterbourne: Digital Tours of the historic garden”. The still ongoing design project, a collaboration between Walters, Winterbourne House and Gardens Museum, and the… Continue reading Harriet Walters wins the 2021 HPGRG Biannual Engagement Award

The HPGRG is pleased to announce that the 2021 HPGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Chiara Ruggieri-Mitchell for her dissertation titled “The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Trends in Conservation Focus, 2010-2019”. The dissertation, completed for a degree at Royal Holloway University, London (https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/geography/) provides a longitudinal in-depth analysis… Continue reading Chiara Ruggieri-Mitchell winner of the 2021 HPGRG Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

A one-day symposium of the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Tuesday, 7 September 2021, 10 am to 6 pm (BST) We are delighted to invite attendance at our 40 years of HPGRG anniversary event. HPGRG was founded as a Working Party in 1981, became a… Continue reading 40 YEARS OF HPGRG – LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD

As the recently appointed Undergraduate Dissertation prize coordinator, I was initially uncertain as to what to expect from this new role. However, it has been an honour and a pleasure to take on this responsibility, to be given the opportunity to read students’ dissertations, collaborate with the HPGRG committee and liaise with geographers around the… Continue reading Daisy Nichols (University of Bristol) winner of the HPGRG 2020 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

Despite the particular circumstances of the ongoing international Covid-19 pandemic, the History and Philosophy of Geography (HPGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize is going ahead this year (deadline: Monday 13thJuly 2020). 2020 is a special year for the HPGRG. Founded in 1981 as a History and Philosophy of Geography Working Party, the group became an official History and Philosophy… Continue reading 2020 History and Philosophy of Geography (HPGRG) Undergraduate Dissertation Prize

We just published and distributed the first HPGRG newsletter of 2020. It is going to be a special year as the HPGRG exists 35 years! See the newsletter for an announcement of the celebrations you can download it here. It contains an reports from the 2019 RGS-IBG conference  and announcements of the exciting sessions that the… Continue reading Newsletter 2020 # 1 out now

Organizers: Jacopo Anderlini (University of Genoa, jacopo.anderlini@edu.unige.it)and Silvan Pollozek (Technical University of Munich, silvan.pollozek@tum.de) Abstract The goal of this session is to examine the material and socio-technical dimensions of the European border regime and its transformations. Far from the idea of uninterrupted lines that divide sovereign political entities typical of the Westphalian model (Zaiotti 2011,… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS: EURODAC, hotspots, repatriation routes: (trans)formations of socio-technical assemblages of the European border regime

Organizers Amy C. Barron, (The University of Manchester, amy.barron@manchester.ac.uk) and  Andrew S. Maclaren (The University of Aberdeen a.s.maclaren@gmail.com) Abstract This session brings together scholars who draw on, advance and empirically use non-representational theories and methodologies, in all their diversity.  Non-representational theories serve as a springboard for exploring the affective geographies of a multitude of phenomena… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Non-representational geographies: approaches, methods and practices

Organized by: Dr Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science (j.brice@lse.ac.uk) Emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in ignorance studies and agnotology has excavated complex entanglements between knowledge production and the generation of illegibilities, lacunae and ignorance (Gross 2010; McGoey 2019). However, geographers remain marginal to these discussions and extant studies of unknowing rarely focus explicitly… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Unknowing Geographies: Situating ignorance, inattention and erasure

Organizer: Emily Hayes, (Oxford Brookes University, ehayes@brookes.ac.uk) Abstract Over the last decades critical scholarship has laboured to shift Geography’s theories and praxes. In spite of these efforts the discipline continues to be associated with the oft-told associations of topographical exploration and imperialism and its crimes. Yet such a view of geographical practice is partial, lazy and chronically damaging.… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Worlds of wisdom: ontology, immanence and transcendence in geography, philosophy and geosophy