Venue: Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University, UK Date: March 30th & March 31st, 2015 Organisers: Julian Brigstocke (Cardiff University) & Tehseen Noorani (Johns Hopkins University) Plenary speakers: Ben Anderson (Reader in Human Geography, Durham University); Deborah Dixon (Professor of Geography, Glasgow University); Kevin Hetherington (Dean of Social Sciences, The Open University); Mara Miele (Reader in Human… Continue reading Call for participants— Spaces of Attunement: Life, Matter & the Dance of Encounters
Category: HPGRG News
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
YouTube Geography
Clive Barnett points to the International Geographical Union’s YouTube channel, which has some interviews with significant figures in anglophone geography from the last 50 years.
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 Apologies (Richard Powell) Minutes of 2013 AGM HPGRG Sessions for 2014 (Heike Jöns and Isla Forsyth) HPGRG Research Group Guests for 2014 (Heike Jöns) HPGRG Accounts (Sam Kinsley) HPGRG Dissertation Prize (Pauline Couper; Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi; Heike Jöns) HPGRG Website (Thomas… Continue reading Agenda for the HPGRG AGM at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014
HPGRG AGM at the RGS-IBG annual conference 2014
The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group Annual General Meeting 2014 will be held at 13.10-14.25 (Plenary/Lunch session), on Thursday 28 August in the RGS-IBG Council Room, as part of the RGS-IBG annual conference. Any Committee Member or normal member of the Research Group (or any other interested person) who is not registered to attend the conference but… Continue reading HPGRG AGM at the RGS-IBG annual conference 2014
HPGRG Dissertation Prize winners 2012 and 2013
The HPGRG committee are pleased to announce the winners of the annual dissertation prize. Due to various issues, we are announcing both the 2012 and 2013 prizes. In 2012 we awarded two first prizes: Emily Foulger (University of Nottingham) “A Woman’s Eye: Isabella Bird Bishop’s travels in the RGS-IBG archives” Matthew Jones (University of Oxford)… Continue reading HPGRG Dissertation Prize winners 2012 and 2013
‘Geography and its publics’ at iCHSTM 2013, sponsored by the HPGRG
The HPGRG are pleased to publicise the ‘Geography and its publics‘ strand at the 2013 International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine to be held in Manchester between 21 and 28 of July 2013. The ‘Geography and its publics‘ strand is made up of six sessions, between the 24th and 25th July, with a broad… Continue reading ‘Geography and its publics’ at iCHSTM 2013, sponsored by the HPGRG