Social and Cultural Geography Research Group

RGS/IBG Conference

The annual RGS-IBG Annual Conference provides an opportunity for the community of academic and other researchers to present and discuss their work.

2012 Edinburgh

The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012 takes place at the University of Edinburgh from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 July 2012. The chair of conference is Professor Chris Philo (University of Glasgow). The conference theme is ‘Security of Geography/Geography of Security’.

The SCGRG are organizing two ‘in-house’ events for this conference:

The group will be co-sponsoring two conference Chair’s plenary sessions (details tba):

(In)secure spaces
(In)secure peoples

We are also delighted to be sponsoring the following submitted paper sessions below. Please get in contact with session organisers for further details or to submit a paper.

Further details on the conference are available via the RGS website.

2011 London

The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group was delighted to sponsor the following sessions at the RGS/IBG conference in London 31 Aug – 2 Sept 2011.

Sole sponsor

(Re)Imagining Materialities
Geographies of Humour and Humorous Geographies. Session 1, session 2.
Mobile Geographies of Art: Bodies, technologies and transnationality. Session 1, session 2

Co-sponsor

‘Emerging from the dark’: explorations into the experiences of the night. Session 1, session 2, session 3, session 4
Emerging geographies of animal-technology co-productions
Exhibitionary Geographies and the Post-Museum. Session 1, session 2
Geographical perspectives on the British Diaspora
Geographies of Friendships. Session 1, session 2, session 3, session 4
“Getting lost on the way to Farmville”: Virtual, mobile and online spaces of interaction
Meteorological Imaginations: Towards geographies of affective practices of weather, atmospherics and landscapes. Session 1, session 2, session 3
Moving Geographies: Film and Video as Research Method. Session 1, session 2, session 3

2010 London

The SCGRG was delighted to sponsor and co-sponsor 12 events at the 2010 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. It was the sole sponsor for three sessions on ‘Geography and the Future’ organised by Ben Anderson and Peter Adey on Friday, and two paper sessions on ‘Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry’ and a poetry reading organised by Amy Cutler. The full details of all sessions are listed below.

Wednesday 1st September

Social and Cultural Geographies of the Coasts (2 sessions)
Youth geographies of in/civility (1 session)

Thursday 2nd September

Absence: Materiality, embodiment, resistance (2 sessions)
Lifestyle Mobilities and Corporealities: Intersections and Issues (1 session)
Geography and Twentieth Century British Poetry (2 sessions and a reading session)
‘Places without a place’: The geographies of ships (2 sessions)
Travelling faith: exploring the intersections of religion and migration (2 sessions)
Innovative Spaces of Learning (2 sessions)

Friday 3rd September

Citizens-in-becoming? New spaces of parenting, early childhood and welfare (2 sessions)
Children, young people and ‘sustainability’ (2 sessions)
Geography and the Future (3 sessions)
Getting away from it all – Embodied practices and engagements with the ‘natural’ (2 sessions)

2009 Manchester

The SCGRG co-sponsored a wide range of events at this year’s meeting in Manchester. For the first time, this included support for an artist’s book produced to accompany the ‘Art and Geographical Knowledge’ session organised by Harriet Hawkins. The SCGRG was honoured to contribute to the drinks reception organised in memory of Duncan Fuller on the Thursday evening.

Wednesday 27th August

Life going on and on: time, embodiment, ageing (2 sessions)
Seasonal Geographies (2 sessions)
Sensewalking: sensory walking methods for social scientists (3 sessions)

Thursday 28th August

Art and Geographical Knowledge (4 sessions)
Follow the Things: New Cultural/Economic Geographies (3 sessions)
Geographies of the End of the World (1 session)
Geography and Memory (3 sessions)
Intersections of English- and German-Speaking Social and Cultural Geographies (2 sessions)
Language and space: Intersections and exchanges between socio-cultural linguistics and human geography (1 session)
Negotiating Spaces: The Impact of New Migration at the Local Scale (1 session)

Friday 29th August

Alternative Spaces of Ethno-Consumption: Beyond Home and Family (2 sessions)
Geographies of the passenger (4 Sessions)

2008 London

Nine events were sponsored or co-sponsored at the 2008 RGS-IBG Conference, London. For further details of these sessions, see the 2008 annual report.