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Sponsored Sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024

At the annual RGS-IBG conference in London, August 2024, the HPGRG has chosen to sponsor the following sessions:

Affects of the Negative organised by Paul Harrison (Durham University), Thomas Dekeyser (Aberystwyth University) and Mitch Rose (Aberystwyth University).

The Ontology Problem in Geography: Polysemy, Conceptual Ambiguity and the Challenge of Making Meaning organised by Sam Di Risio (University of Edinburgh) and Carl Olsson (Newcastle University).

Curating disciplinary heritage – collecting, storing and sharing geography’s educational pasts organised by Mette Bruinsma (Utrecht University) and Michiel van Meeteren (Utrecht University)

Geography and Contingency organised by Joe Blakey (The University of Manchester) and Ruth Machen (Newcastle University)

‘By their theories you will know them’. Histories and geographies of theory-making in contemporary critical geography organised by Paloma Puente-Lozano (University Carlos III of Madrid) and Shawn Bodden (University of Glasgow)

Charting a Future for Departmental Map Collections organised by Elaine Watts (University of Nottingham) and Mike Heffernan (University of Nottingham)

Thinking Space/Thinking Spatially: (How) does space still matter organised by Jennifer Robinson (UCL) and Steve Hinchcliffe (Exeter).

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HPGRG Call for Session Sponsorship, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024

The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) invites applications to sponsor sessions at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference. Sessions should address topics relating to contemporary philosophies, theories and methods related to geography and/or the history and philosophy of geography and associated fields. We welcome proposals for sessions that use innovative or creative formats.

The RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024 will take place from Tuesday 27thto Friday 30thAugust 2024 at the Society’s Headquarters in London. The 2024 Conference Chair is Professor Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham, UK) and the conference theme is Mapping. See https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/ for more details.

Please submit your session proposals for HPGRG sponsorship by Friday26th January 2024, to peter.martin1@nottingham.ac.uk.

The proposal should include:

Please note that details of the individual papers in the session are not required at this point.

We will notify applicants of the committee’s decision as soon as possible afterwards, no later than Friday 2ndFebruary. Final details of the session, including details of the authors, titles and abstracts of all the papers, must be submitted to the conference organisers by Friday 1stMarch 2024.

Please note that any sessions sponsored by the HPGRG will require the session organisers to provide a short (200-300 word) summary of their sessions for inclusion in the HPGRG Annual Newsletter.

If you have any questions or queries about potential sessions, please do contact peter.martin1@nottingham.ac.uk.

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Call for Sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2019

The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) invites suggestions for sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019 in London from Wednesday, 28 to Friday, 30 August 2019. The conference will focus on Geographies of trouble / geographies of hope and be chaired by Professor Hester Parr (University of Glasgow).

We welcome suggestions for sessions across our remit, interpreted broadly, as the histories and/or philosophies of human geography, physical geography and associated fields.

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 Federico Ferretti, Secretary of HPGRG by Tuesday, 18 December 2019:

 – title of proposed session, name of organizers, and abstract of c. 200-250 words

– indication of proposed format, e.g. papers or panel discussion, number of papers, use of discussants; for possibilities of session formats, see https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/programme-(1)/guidance-for-session-organisers/

– number of 1h 40 minutes slots requested

– possible co-sponsorship with other research groups

 We will inform session organizers about HPGRG sponsorship and further procedures by Monday, 7 January 2019. The deadline for submitting complete sessions to HPGRG is Friday, 8 February 2019 for submission to the Society by Friday, 15 February 2019. This would leave about one month for session organisers to send out a call for papers and finalise the session programme. 

Please direct any questions to Federico Ferretti.

The HPGRG committee looks forward to your submissions!

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Call for sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2016

The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) invites suggestions for 12 sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016 in London from 30th August to Friday 2nd September 2016. The conference theme is “Nexus Thinking” and will be chaired by Professor Peter Jackson.

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 15th January 2016 [extended from 8th January].

– 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

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

We will inform session organizers about HPGRG sponsorship and further procedures in mid January. The deadline for submitting complete sessions to the Society is 19 February 2016. This would leave about six weeks for session organisers to send out a call for papers and finalise the session programme.

Please note that any sessions sponsored by the HPGRG will require the session organizers to provide a short (200-300 word) summary of what happened in their sessions for inclusion in the HPGRG Autumn 2016 newsletter.

Please direct any questions to Isla Forsyth.  Further details about the Annual Conference 2016 can be found here.

The HPGRG committee looks forward to your submissions.

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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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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 for the list.

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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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Conference awards 2013

as a research group of the RGS-IBG, the remit of the HPGRG includes supporting postgraduate members to attend the RGS-IBG annual conference. This year we are pleased to support two postgraduate researchers giving papers at the annual conference with a bursary of £50.

Chay Brooks from the University of Cambridge is giving a paper entitled ‘Agents of Good Will’: An historical geography of philanthropy and the Institute of International Education, c. 1946-1952, in the Historical Geographies of Internationalism, 1900s-1970s session.

Jake Hodder from the University of Nottingham is giving a paper entitled Radical Pacifism, Internationalism and the Ephemeral Geographies of the World Peace Brigade (1962-64), also in the Historical Geographies of Internationalism, 1900s-1970s session.

The abstracts for both of these papers are available on the session page at the RGS-IBG website.

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HPGRG-sponsored RGS-IBG conference sessions for 2013

The HPGRG are pleased to announce the conference sessions sponsored at this year’s RGS-IBG annual international conference. The variety amongst the nine sessions is a great indication of the fascinating work being presently conducted in geography.

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