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. The SCGRG is able to assist with session sponsorship and research group guests for those organizing sessions that further research in social and cultural geography.

Slots for sessions and support for guests are limited, and are offered on a competitive basis. More information on the 2010 RGS/IBG conference is available here. For queries about SCGRG conference sponsorship, please contact Russell Hitchings. The process for submitting session proposals to the SCGRG for the 2011 RGS/IBG will be posted here shortly.

We welcome both co-sponsored sessions and stand alone sessions. If your session proposal has links with other research groups we would strongly encourage you to seek co-sponsorship; we are always oversubcribed. However, we are also keen to work with members to develop high-quality sole-sponsored sessions that promote and develop research in social and cultural geography.

2010 London

The SCGRG is delighted to sponsor and co-sponsor 12 events at the 2010 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. It is 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.