With apologies for cross-postings. The deadline for submitting an abstract for the 17th Annual Mini-Conference is Monday, August 16th. For more information, please see the conference website:
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/criticalgeography/ **** Call for Papers and Panel Sessions: 17th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, November 5-6, 2010 As in past years, the aim of this two-day conference is to provide an inclusive venue for the broad discussion of themes in critical geography. We continue to welcome interdisciplinary work that examines the geographies of critical social theory and progressive political praxis. The conference will begin on Friday, November 5, 2010. The opening evening will feature a keynote address by Mona Domosh, who is the Joan P. and Edward J. Foley, Jr. Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. We also invite conference participants who can arrive earlier in the day to attend a Friday afternoon guest lecture, co-sponsored by the UW-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies and Department of Geography, by Prof. Arun Saldanha of the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. The program on Saturday, November 6 will consist of paper sessions, panels, and round table discussions on topics in critical geography. In recent years, papers and panels have been presented on a broad array of topics, and possible topics for presentation could include the following: • Gentrification & Urban Struggles • Cities & Citizenship • Migration, Transnationalism, & Post-Nationalism • Post-Colonial Issues • Critical Geopolitics and Imperialism • The State, Security, and Surveillance • Local Politics and Geographies • Social Movements and Dissent • The Right to the City • Political Ecology, especially Urban Political Ecology • GIS and Society • Counter-mapping • Urban Sustainability • Interactions between Human and Physical Geographies • D/development • Critical Poverty Studies • Peace Studies • Violence and War • Cultural Politics • Marxian Studies • Work and Labor • The Geography of Financial Crisis • Identity including Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, (Dis)Ability, Age • CyberSpaces and Virtual Geographies • Space, Place, and Power • Emotional Geographies and Geographies of Affect • Neoliberalism(s) and contestation We invite you to submit abstracts or proposals for panels, roundtable discussions, or sessions with alternative formats by the deadline of *August 16, 2010*. Abstracts or proposals should be 250-500 words in length, and we ask that you include a brief bio of each participant with contact information and any titles or affiliations you would like placed in the program. Please send your abstract or proposal to [email protected]. If you would like to organize a themed paper session, please let us know - you can then issue your own CFP through appropriate mailing lists. Further information on the conference, including accommodations, paper sessions, and tours/field trips, will be available at the conference web site, which will be available soon. Please feel free to email the Critical Geography Conference Planning Committee at [email protected] with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in the fall! --- Anne Bonds Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Bolton Hall 462 P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Phone: 414-229-4872
