Archive for 'Conferences' Category
Migrant transnationalism, integration and place – call for papers (RGS-IBG 2010)
We would like to invite abstracts for papers to be presented at a panel we propose for inclusion in the 2010 conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The panel theme is migrant transnationalism, integration and place.
MIGRANT TRANSNATIONALISM, INTEGRATION AND PLACE
SESSION ABSTRACT:
This session aims to explore the intersections between migrants’ transnational engagements and integration [...]
HGRG call for papers – RGS-IBG 2010.
The Health Geography Research Group (HGRG) of the RGS have announced a call for papers for a number of sessions due to take place in the coming year’s annual Royal Geographcial Society- Institute of British Geographers conference.
The sessions cover the following themes:
Healthy Countrysides?: exploring geographies of rural health
Healthy Places
Geographies of (dis)ability, (ill) health, emotion and [...]
Seminar on Fertility and Poverty: micro and macro linkages
The Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy at the University of Southampton School of Social Sciences, in conjunction with the ESRC are holding a Seminar on Fertility and Poverty, focusing on micro and macro linkages.
The seminar takes from on the 28th and 29th of January.
A limited number of bursaries are available to UK [...]
PopFest 2010: Call for Papers
The annual PopFest conference, a conference specifically open to postgraduates from all disciplines across the social
sciences studying any aspect of population, has announced a call for papers for its 2010 conference in St. Andrews.
Full details of the programme are still to be confirmed but will include: parallel sessions running over three days, poster presentations, keynote [...]
PGRG Call for Sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010
The Population Geography Research Group (PGRG) invites members to submit sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual conference in London from the 1st to the 3rd September 2010.
Sessions usually have a maximum of 5 papers, and take place over 1 hour 40 minutes.
To apply for a PGRG session please forward your proposal (max 350 words), the [...]
Fertility and poverty: micro and macro linkages. Call for papers.
The University of Southhampton are hosting a workshop on ‘fertility and poverty: micro and macro linkages’ from 28th to 29th January 2010.
Papers are being invited that address the following:
i) New evidence on the linkages between fertility and poverty (at both macro and micro levels)
ii) Barriers to contraceptive use and safe abortion amongst those living [...]
ESRC Seminar Series ‘Challenges in neighbourhood effects research: does it really matter where you live and what are the implications for policy?’
The forthcoming ESRC Seminar Series ‘Challenges in neighbourhood effects research: does it really matter where you live and what are the implications for policy?’ is organised jointly by the Centre of Housing Research, University of St Andrews, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and CCSR, University of Manchester.
The first seminar, ‘Neighbourhood Effects: Theory and [...]
Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
The tenth annual conference on diversity in organisations, communities and nations will take place from 19-21 July 2010 at Queen’s University, Belfast.
The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers [...]
2009 Quetelet Seminar: Population Policies in Europe and in North America – Call for Papers
The Centre de recherche en démographie et sociétés at Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is hosting the 2009 Quetelet Seminar on ‘Population Policies in Europe and in North America’ from the 18th to 20th of November 2009.
The 2009 Quetelet Seminar will be devoted to population policies, those already implemented or to be implemented, in industrialized countries, and [...]
GISRUK 2010: Call for papers now open!
The Programme Committee for the GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference in 2010 are pleased to open the call for papers.
The GISRUK conference series is the UK’s national GIS research conference, established in 1993. GISRUK conferences are primarily aimed at the academic community though research papers from outside academia are welcomed. The conferences attract delegates from [...]