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Connecting People, Participation and Place
Location: Collingwood College, Durham University
Date: 14/01/2008 - 15/01/2008
Description: An international conference of participatory geographies.
Organised by the Social Well-Being and Spatial Justice research cluster at Durham
and the Participatory Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG
Call for participation
Confirmed speakers
Sara Kindon (Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) - keynote
Caitlin Cahill (University of Utah, USA)
Gaby Kitoko (African Community Advice North East, UK)
Giles Mohan (Open University, UK)
Babette Resureccion (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
Paul Routledge (Glasgow University, UK)
Jasber Singh (Independent participatory researcher, UK)
Participatory approaches to research, learning, action and change have in some ways become a new orthodoxy in social and environmental science disciplines, voluntary sectors, statutory agencies and community-led organisations across the world. The development of conceptual insights, creative techniques and radical practices is exploding. At the same time participatory approaches are highly contested and debated, and are profoundly affected by the environments, social settings and institutional webs in which they are embedded.
This conference will showcase original and collaboratively produced contributions to theory, practice and social/environmental change which focus on the relations between people and places. The themes are
1. Connecting people and places - innovative approaches to understanding and using participation for research and change.
2. Charting the geographies of participation: settings, scales and spatialities.
The conference will coincide with the publication of Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods; Connecting People, Participation and Place (Routledge, London) edited by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby.
We now welcome offers of participation, including (but not limited to) papers, workshops, demonstrations or interactive sessions, posters, artwork and other displays, creative and performing arts.
The conference will position theoretical perspectives and insights, empirical practices, issues of politics and ethics, and processes of transformation and social change as contingent and equally valuable, so offers with any or several of these foci are welcome.
Suggested workshops so far include participatory methods, activism, participatory video, undergraduate teaching and participation. Participants are welcome to help out with these, or to suggest others.
More details
The conference aims to:
• Be open to anyone with an interest in participatory methods and approaches for research, learning, action and change
• Encourage discussion and debates around the conference themes between academics, practitioners, and all those ‘in between’
• Include a range of different formats for participation including: papers, workshops, performances and use or demonstrations of technologies
• Consist of invited papers and workshops (Day 1), and an open space format (Day 2) where content and format are decided by participants through discussion before and during the conference.
Registration, tea, coffee and lunch over the two days is £60 (waged) or £35 (unwaged/student). The conference will be held in Collingwood College (which is fully accessible) in beautiful and historic Durham. Bed & Breakfast and hotel accommodation are available in the city.
Durham is well served by high-speed mainline rail services from the major UK cities (2.5 hours from London). Newcastle and Durham Tees Valley airports are within 30-40 minutes drive with frequent connections to major London airports. Ferry services link the River Tyne to ports in Scandinavia, The Netherlands and Germany.
Please send OFFERS OF PARTICIPATION, with an abstract or summary of ideas/plans, by 31st August 2007 to rachel.pain@durham.ac.uk.
Decisions: by 30th September 2007.
Registration: by 31st October 2007. (Please note that accommodation in the city is limited so early reservations are recommended.)
Programme available: November 2007.
For further details please visit the conference website at http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Conf/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/cppp
Organising committee:
Catherine Alexander, Kye Askins, Natalie Beale, Caitlin Cahill, Helen Charnley, Paul Chatterton, Christine Dunn, Duncan Fuller, Peter Hopkins, Roy Huijsmans, Kathrin Horschelmann, Sara Kindon, Sara MacKian, Julia McMillan, Rachel Pain, Jonathan Rigg, Paul Routledge, Nadine Schafer, Divya Tolia-Kelly, Louise Waite, Friederike Ziegler
CAPITALISM AND NATURE
Location: Manchester University, UK
Date: 04/02/2008
Description: A one-day symposium at the University of Manchester organised by the Society and Environment Research Group (SERG), the Centre for the Study of Political Economy (CSPE), and the Red-Green Study Group.
10am to 5pm with a reception to follow, at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
The symposium will present and discuss a series of papers published in the September and December 2007 issues of the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. For an overview of the programme, see http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/serg/sergnews.htm
The event is free and open to the public. To help us estimate numbers, please complete the online booking form here: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/research/events/serg/
For more information, contact Gavin Bridge, convenor of the Society and Environment Research Group, University of Manchester (gavin.bridge@manchester.ac.uk)
Theoretical approaches in labour geographies - Two day conference
Location: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: 14/05/2008 - 15/05/2008
Description: Theoretical approaches in labour geographies
Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo and IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces
The analysis of labour geographies has gained momentum in recent years.However, there is a need to refine theories on both labour in general and the organisations of the labour movement. In order to do so, a two day conference on labour geographies is taking place in Oslo. Registration for
the conference and a call for papers is now open. Papers are invited that address the theoretical ‘missing links’ in labour geographies, and we especially invite papers that deal with one or more of the following issues:
- Concepts of power relations and class in labour geographies
- Concepts of labour regimes; control issues, contract issues, material
support issues
- Labour regimes in relation to industry structure and strategies of
industrialisation
- Labour regulations: judicial and ethical, spaces of control
- Place, space, scale and context in labour geographies
- Informalisation and formalisation of work
- Labour hire and labour intermediaries
- Organisations of the labour movement
- Outwork and homework
Theoretical approaches may be illustrated by cases.
Important Dates:
One page abstract by 1 December 2007
Deadline for registration 28 February 2008
Submission of final papers 30 April 2008
Please submit to local organisers:
Hege Merete Knutsen
Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
e-mail: h.m.knutsen@sgeo.uio.no
Sylvi B. Endresen
Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
e-mail: s.b.endresen@sgeo.uio.no
Conference publications:
Papers presented for this meeting will be considered for Commission publication initiatives.
For registration and further information please visit:
http://www.iss.uio.no/english/conference/index.html
Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives
Location: Manchester
Date: 19/06/2008 - 22/06/2008
Description: Call for Papers and Projects
TRIP
* Psychogeography
* Neogeography
* Deep topography
* Urban interventions
* Locative media
* Collaborative Mapping
http://trip2008.wordpress.com/
Between June 19 and 22, 2008, TRIP brings together artists, academics, movers, shakers, do-ers and dissenters in a unique event combining an interdisciplinary conference with a city-wide series of actions, exhibitions, and screenings. TRIP enables the previously separate worlds of theory and practice to interact, initiating new approaches and energies, and furthering techniques to take on and alter the physical environment.
Beginning as a reaction to the industrial revolution, the re-imagining of the city by romantics, bohemians, and avant-gardists evolved into a diverse range of strategies, practices and arguments, from the psychogeographic drift or derive to the artistic intervention. By the 1990s these were being utilised by artists, writers, activists, and historians, attempting to negotiate urban and rural space in the post-modern world.
But practices developed in the twentieth century encounter a different world in the twenty first - a more observed and policed world on the one hand, a more corporate, globally-connected world on the other. Increasingly the body, social, individual and political, is the site of contradictory demands - the demands to consume versus the demands of control.
TRIP will be based at Manchester Metropolitan University, on the city’s main southerly corridor, Oxford Road. But we want events to take place throughout Manchester, in as wide a variety of spaces and venues as possible. Like many northern cities, Manchester is changing fast. Perhaps you want to critique the implications of “regeneration”, or perhaps you want to stimulate new ways of engaging with an increasingly consumerised environment. Maybe you’re passionate about the possibilities of inventive walking and drifting, or maybe you’re a performance artist aiming to change the energy of a public space. Wherever you’re coming from, TRIP wants to hear from you with your ideas.
To submit a paper, you should send an abstract outlining your subject and the key points of your presentation.
To submit an idea for an intervention, performance or a walk involving members of the public, please outline in one paragraph the aims and ideal locations for your project.
To submit an idea for a gallery-based project, please outline in one paragraph the thinking behind your installation or work.
Please try to keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 200 words. And don’t forget your contact details. Deadline for submissions: December 22nd 2007.
Submissions should be emailed to: TRIP@mmu.ac.uk
The festival proceedings will be fully documented and recorded, and an edited volume of essays, art and photography will be published at a later date.
http://trip2008.wordpress.com/
Territories Re-imagined: International Perspectives (T.R.I.P)
Location: Manchester Metropolitan University and City Centre
Date: 19/06/2008 - 22/06/2008
Description: Territories Reimagined: International Perspectives
Conference and Festival
Between June 19 and 22, 2008, TRIP brings together artists, academics, movers, shakers, do-ers and dissenters in a unique event combining an interdisciplinary conference with a city-wide series of actions, exhibitions, and screenings. TRIP enables the previously separate worlds of theory and practice to interact, initiating new approaches and energies, and furthering techniques to take on and alter the physical environment.
Beginning as a reaction to the industrial revolution, the re-imagining of the city by romantics, bohemians, and avant-gardists evolved into a diverse range of strategies, practices and arguments, from the psychogeographic drift or derive to the artistic intervention. By the 1990s these were being utilised by artists, writers, activists, and historians, attempting to negotiate urban and rural space in the post-modern world.
But practices developed in the twentieth century encounter a different world in the twenty first - a more observed and policed world on the one hand, a more corporate, globally-connected world on the other. Increasingly the body, social, individual and political, is the site of contradictory demands - the demands to consume versus the demands of control.
TRIP will be based at Manchester Metropolitan University, on the city’s main southerly corridor, Oxford Road. But we want events to take place throughout Manchester, in as wide a variety of spaces and venues as possible. Like many northern cities, Manchester is changing fast. Perhaps you want to critique the implications of “regeneration”, or perhaps you want to stimulate new ways of engaging with an increasingly consumerised environment. Maybe you’re passionate about the possibilities of inventive walking and drifting, or maybe you’re a performance artist aiming to change the energy of a public space. Wherever you’re coming from, TRIP wants to hear from you with your ideas.
To submit a paper, you should send an abstract outlining your subject and the key points of your presentation.
To submit an idea for an intervention, performance or a walk involving members of the public, please outline in one paragraph the aims and ideal locations for your project.
To submit an idea for a gallery-based project, please outline in one paragraph the thinking behind your installation or work.
Please try to keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 200 words. And don’t forget your contact details. Deadline for submissions: 21st December 2007.
Submissions should be emailed to: TRIP@mmu.ac.uk
The festival proceedings will be fully documented and recorded, and an edited volume of essays, art and photography will be published at a later date
The Olympics: Politics and Protest
Location: Headingley Stadium/Leeds Metropolitan University
Date: 17/07/2008 - 18/07/2008
Description: The Olympics: Politics and Protest
The Carnegie Faculty of Sport & Education at Leeds Metropolitan University invites papers for the above conference, to be held at Headingley Carnegie Stadium over 17th and 18th July 2008.
The Olympic Games are probably the most popular event in the history of sport. The TV audiences for both the Summer and the Winter Games now approach saturation point, the Games generate huge commercial possibilities for ‘Olympic partners’ and a deafening cheer goes up in the nominated
country when the venue for the next tournament but one is revealed. Olympic history – especially the history dispensed by the International Olympic Committee itself – is invariably a history of sporting triumph and comradeship. The political dimensions of the Olympic movement have too often been hidden from its history – hence this conference.
We invite papers that take a critical stance on the Olympic movement at some point in its history. These papers may address any of the following themes:
• de Coubertin and the establishment of the modern Olympics
• campaigns against the Olympics and/or specific Olympiads
• gender and the Olympics and the campaign for gender equity
• racism and the Olympics
• the campaign to establish, and issues around, the Paralympics
• the amateur-professional divide
• commercialism and the Olympics
• Olympics and the Cold War
• the Olympics as a site of protest
• the Olympics and ‘human rights’
• the Olympics and the environment
• critiques of Olympic ideology and educational programmes
Needless to say, papers outside of these specified themes will be considered.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Helen Lenskyj (University of Toronto) author of Inside the Olympic Industry (State University of New York Press, 2000).
John Horne, Reader in the Sociology of Sport, University of Edinburgh
Please direct outline of your proposed paper (300 words approx.), and any academic enquires, to conference organiser:
Stephen Wagg
Reader in Sport and Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
Email: s.wagg@leedsmet.ac.uk
CARNEGIE FACULTY OF SPORT & EDUCATION
CALL FOR PAPERS
RGS-IBG Annual Conference
Location: London
Date: 27/08/2008 - 29/08/2008
Description: Annual International Conference 2008
'Geographies that Matter'
Chair: Professor Noel Castree, University of Manchester
For more information and programme see:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/
Annual+International+Conference/Annual+International
+Conference+2008.htm