Organizers: Federico Ferretti (University College Dublin, federico.ferretti@ucd.ie), Jacobo García-Álvarez and Paloma Puente-Lozano (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid). Abstract Recent geographical scholarship on territory, sovereignty and borders have pointed out the need for questioning and exposing in historical perspective a number of “myths” and “political fictions” embedded within modern state-making and its discursive and material makings. Within… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Drawing the line. Theories and Practices of Boundary Delimitation in European and Colonial Territories (Eighteenth-Twentieth Century)
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RGS-IBG 2020 Call for papers: Speculative Thinking
Organizers: Nina Williams (UNSW Canberra, nina.williams@adfa.edu.au) and Thomas Keating (UNSW Canberra, thomas.patrick.keating@gmail.com)) Abstract Writing about the environmental, political, and financial catastrophes that define the first part of the C21st, philosophers Didier Debaise and Isabelle Stengers (2017) call for a new ‘speculative’ mode of thought capable of responding to a crisis of “lazy thinking”, “false problems”… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for papers: Speculative Thinking
RGS-IBG 2020, Call for papers: Friedrich Engels and Geography
Organizers: Camilla Royle (King’s College London, camilla.royle@kcl.ac.uk) Abstract Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was Karl Marx’s closest collaborator. Although mentioned less often than Marx in geographical discussions, he was an important theorist in his own right. With his pathbreaking work, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), he analysed the social drivers of poverty, ill… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020, Call for papers: Friedrich Engels and Geography
The NERFC fellowship
The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine invite historical geographers, historians of cartography, and scholars working in related fields to apply for fellowships in the 2020–2021 New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC).… Continue reading The NERFC fellowship
History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) Sponsored Sessions, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2020, London
The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) invites suggestions for sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2020 in London, Tuesday 1st to Friday 4th September 2020. The conference will focus on Borders, Borderlands and Bordering and will be chaired by Professor Uma Kothari. We welcome suggestions for sessions across our remit, interpreted broadly, as the histories and/or… Continue reading History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) Sponsored Sessions, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2020, London
2 HPGRG Bursaries available for the RGS Midterm conference, 30 Apr-1 May Glasgow
The HPGRG is happy to announce that we will sponsor two PhD students working in the History and Philosophy of Geography domain for the RGS Midterm conference. The midterm is a great occasion to interact with peers in the British PhD community. More information at https://rgsmidterm2020.wordpress.com/bursaries/ , deadline for applications 14 Februari 2020 (apply on the link… Continue reading 2 HPGRG Bursaries available for the RGS Midterm conference, 30 Apr-1 May Glasgow
Call for papers : Bridging Differences: East, West, Seas and Mediterranean worlds. (34th International Geographical Congress, Istanbul 17-21 August 2020)
34th International Geographical Congress, Istanbul 17-21 August 2020 Joint CFP of the Commission History of Geography, the Commission Gender and Geography and the Commission Political Geography BRIDGING DIFFERENCES: EAST, WEST, SEAS AND MEDITERRANEAN WORLDS Chair: Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg Co-chairs: Virginie Mamadouh, Lynda Johnston Call for papers: For a long time, the categories of East,… Continue reading Call for papers : Bridging Differences: East, West, Seas and Mediterranean worlds. (34th International Geographical Congress, Istanbul 17-21 August 2020)
Call for papers: IGU Thematic Conference Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past, Lecce (Italy), May 29-31 2020
The IGU Commission History of Geography would like to draw attention to the following call for papers: SOUTHERN THINKING. HERITAGE, MIGRATION AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES For this session, we welcome empirical or theoretical contributions that place heritage- related issues in the context of Mediterranean histories, cultures and circulations. The Mediterranean has disgracefully become a (disputed and… Continue reading Call for papers: IGU Thematic Conference Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past, Lecce (Italy), May 29-31 2020
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… Continue reading HPGRG Dissertation Prize 2019 Announced
Committee changes following the AGM
We have a number of out-going committee members following the most recent AGM. The Chair, Heike Jöns, thanked Pauline Couper for her exemplary work as HPGRG Undergraduate Prize Coordinator over two terms from 2013 to 2019. She also thanked Thomas Jellis for having built up the new HPGRG website and Twitter account and for looking… Continue reading Committee changes following the AGM