Category: HPGRG News

Call for Papers – International Conference of Historical Geographers Warsaw, 15-20 July 2018 Crossing the boundaries of knowledge: historical geographies of mobility, circulation, and transculturalism A considerable part of the geographical tradition has been constructed around national schools of thought, academic institutions, and intellectual discourses. A prominent line of research in the histories of geography thus addresses… Continue reading Crossing the boundaries of knowledge: historical geographies of mobility, circulation, and transculturalism

Clive Barnett ruminates on the ways we might chart through ‘old books’  the making of human geography, and its particular concern for space not as a residual but as a central concern to social science: Originally posted on Pop Theory: It’s sad, I know, but one of my favourite places is the Bookbarn, in Somerset on… Continue reading A history of geography through books

We have had two AHRC studentships circulated in the past week. Details for each can be found below. THE ART OF EARTH-BUILDING: PLACING RELIEF MODELS IN THE CULTURE OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship (3.5 yrs full-time), which will examine the place of relief models in modern geography. The studentship is… Continue reading Details of two AHRC studentships: “The Art of Earth-Building” and “Engineering ‘Modern’ Scotland”

Our relaunched newsletter is now available to read! Here’s an excerpt: It might seem odd to (re)launch a newsletter in an era where so many other forms of electronic communication are available. The HPGRG already uses a twitter account (@HPGRG_RGS), our website (https://hpgrg.org.uk/) and our mailing list to advertise the activities of the group and… Continue reading Newsletter relaunched!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 40 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the… Continue reading 2015 in review

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

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