Umeå, Sweden, 14 – 17 June 2011
We would like to welcome you all to the Sixth International Conference on Population Geographies, to be held at the University Campus in Umeå, Sweden next June.
Call for papers and more information, including link to our website, will be send out during the fall of 2010.
*Deadline for abstract submission February 2011 *

Preliminary programme in brief:

*Tuesday 14/6 *Registration, reception and pre-excursion for early arrivals
*Wednesday 15/6 *Registration, keynotes and parallel sessions Evening activity
*Thursday 16/6 * Keynotes and parallel sessions Conference dinner

*Friday 17/6 *Parallel sessions and closing session,
*Friday – Sunday 17-19/6* Post-conference excursion to Kiruna

We hope to see you here in Umeå next June. Please help circulate this call amongst your colleagues and on your mailing lists!

Very welcome!!

Gunnar Malmberg

http://www.geo.umu.se/om-institutionen/personal/malmberg-gunnar/

Contemporary Labour Migration: National and International Perspectives

Hosted by NUI Galway under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG and Population Commission of the International Geographical Union

Papers are invited for an Anglo-Irish population conference on Labour Migration. Whilst there is a focus on Ireland and the UK, papers that address the broad conference themes in other geographical contexts will be most welcome.

Major changes have taken place in the scale and character of labour migration in the UK and Ireland since the early 1990s, involving both national and international workers. Established patterns of movement have continued within and between rural and urban regions; both countries also experienced dramatic increases in overseas labour immigration from the early 1990s on, to fill vacancies in highly skilled and lower skilled employment. Both countries, with Sweden, opened their borders immediately in 2004 to members of the new accession states of the European Union to meet labour deficits. In response to reduced rates of economic growth since 2008, demand for labour has fallen and new challenges have emerged for labour, employers and governments. New migration patterns are apparent, associated with migrant return to countries of origin and relocation within and between regions. Ireland and the UK provide similarities but also contrasts in terms of labour migration, in particular the diversity of the former’s immigrant flows. Both countries are currently facing crises in their labour markets which are finding expression in changing migration patterns, a phenomenon that is not exclusive to them. This experience provides a context for exploring and developing existing and new theoretical perspectives relating to internal and international migration.

Papers are invited on the following themes in particular:

(i) the socio-economic and political contexts of recent labour migration, including the role of employers, national governments and international agencies in the migration process;
(ii) the composition of migration flows at an international scale and impacts in source and reception areas;
(iii) the internal and transnational labour migration experience within urban and rural settings;
(iv) the transnational labour migrant experience in the broader host society.

Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited by Tuesday 6th April 2010: http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=90.

Guest Speaker: Professor Adrian J. Bailey, University of Leeds and Hong Kong Baptist University will deliver a plenary address on Recession, Labour Migration, and Europe’s Transnational Turn, at 18:30 on 12th May, in the D’Arcy Thompson Theatre.

Graduate Bursaries: A limited number of graduate bursaries are available on a competitive basis to cover the cost of the registration fee, (sponsored by the Dean of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies): http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=90.

Registration commences at 10:30 on Wednesday 12th May followed by buffet lunch at 12:00.  The Conference opens at 13:00 on the 12th May and closes at 17:00 on Thursday 13th of May.
Conference web site:
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=90

Organisers
Darren Smith, Chair, RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group  d.smith@brighton.ac.uk
Mary Cawley: mary.cawley@nuigalway.ie
Marie Mahon: marie.mahon@nuigalway.ie
Valerie Ledwith: valerie.ledwith@nuigalway.ie
School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway

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 (a title and short abstract) is 8 October 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date.  Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website:

http://www.Diversity-Conference.com

The 2009 Quetelet Seminar will be devoted to population policies, those already implemented or to be implemented, in industrialized countries, and more specifically in Europe (including Russia) and in North America. The conference will be structured as both a theoretical reflection on population policies – their aims, their fields of action – and as a presentation of case-studies. Empirical studies will mainly concern policies that support having children, policies for ageing and migration policies. Contributions in other fields of application of population policies are also encouraged.

The call for papers will be open until the 17th of August, and can be submitted to: isabelle.theys@uclouvain.be

Further details in attachment here.

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 all parts of the UK, together with the European Union and North America, and from disciplines including Geography, Computer Science, Planning, Archaeology, Geology, Geomatics, Crime Science and Engineering.

This year the conference is being hosted at University College London (UCL), from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 April 2010.

The overarching theme this year will therefore be “Global Challenges”. As is usual with GISRUK papers across the range of contemporary GIS research are welcomed, but the papers on the following themes are particularly well received:

• Crime and Place
• Environmental Change
• Migration and Identity
• Intelligent Transport
• Public Health and Epidemiology
• Simulation and Modelling
• London as a global city
• The geoweb and neo-geography
• Open GIS and Volunteered Geographic Information

More details of the call for papers, abstract format, and the submission URL can all be found on the conference website.

Plenary speakers and details of the social events at the conference are to be announced shortly. Conference registration will open in the Autumn.

This conference brings together research students who will present and discuss core themes and issues emanating from their research. The papers to be presented encompass many of the key issues that researchers of Development are grappling with today.

In addition to the paper and poster presentations, there will be keynote addresses from Prof. Lawrence Haddad (IDS) and Prof. Peter Newell (UEA).

A full list of paper and poster presentations can be seen here.

Tickets for the two days cost £40, and include lunch on both days and a conference meal on Thursday 25th June. Register here.

If you have any queries, contact conference2009@uea.ac.uk

XXIII European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) congress

Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009

Rural areas and people in Europe stand at a crossroads, caught between global and local flows and processes. The ESRS Congress will address this critical moment through the following five key themes:

1. Mobilities and Stabilities in Rural Space
2.The Rural Bites Back
3. Animal Farm
4. The Sciences of the Rural
5. Sustainable Ruralities

The Scientific Committee are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for Abstracts of the XXIII ESRS Congress to be held in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the congress, please decide which Working Group you would like to be in, and send a title and short abstract (circa 200 – 250 words) to the convenor of that Working Group by February 28, 2009.

http://www.esrs2009.fi/index.html

University of Manchester, 2 April 2009

Bookings are now open for a one-day conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity on Thursday 2 April 2009 at the University of Manchester. There is an excellent programme of topics and speakers:

Rob Ford, CCSR
British attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities: education, generational change and the slow decline of discrimination

Laura Morales, ISC
The role of social capital in migrant’s engagement in local politics in European cities

Bethan Harries, Sociology and Liz Richardson , IPEG
Housing Aspirations for a New Generation: Perspectives from White and South Asian British Women

Nisha Kapoor, CCSR
Does place matter? Inequalities for South Asians and the neighbourhood context

Gemma Catney & Ludi Simpson, CCSR
Migration from immigrant settlement areas: race and social class

Stephen Jivraj & Naomi Marquis, CCSR
The National Pupil Database: A new method for measuring residential movement with an ethnic dimension

Nissa Finney, CCSR
The migration of young adults of different ethnic groups

We hope to get a wide range of participants and will ensure that there is plenty of time for discussion and questions. There is NO charge for attendance but you MUST book beforehand, particularly as lunch will be provided. To view the programme and book a place please go to
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/erm/2009-04-02/index.shtml

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2009 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Sussex, from 9-11 September. The University campus is at Falmer, just outside Brighton. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/BSPS/annualConference/2009_Callforpapers.htm

There will be a full programme of simultaneous strand sessions of submitted papers. Proposals or abstracts for papers and posters are invited across the entire demographic and population studies spectrum. For organizational purposes, strand organizers have been allocated to specific themes, but if you wish to submit a paper that does not appear to come under any of the headings given, please enter either ‘to be agreed’ in the relevant space on the online submission form, or leave the space blank . If accepted, the paper will be allocated to an appropriate strand session when the programme is timetabled. Submissions of quantitative and qualitative papers are most welcome.

Plenary speakers are confirmed as Professor Ron Lesthaeghe and Professor Jane Falkingham. A third plenary or an alternative session is also planned. Additionally, there will be special sessions in tribute to John Hajnal (on 9 September) and John Blacker (on 10 September), both of whom sadly died recently. Information updates on the Conference will be posted to this BSPS website as available. .htm

Presenters of posters will be expected to attend the scheduled poster session on the first evening of the Conference, but posters will remain on display for the duration of the Conference.

Preliminary abstracts of papers – which may be in the form of a declaration of intent – (maximum 250 words, please), plus a provisional title, should be submitted online by 20 May 2009 at:

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/bsps

If you are unable to submit online, please contact pic@lse.ac.uk  for alternative arrangements.

*Places are still available at this conference- registration deadline extended to 28th February 2009*

Keynote speakers
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Professor Tim Blackman, Director, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University

Overview
Over the last ten years the targets of policy have expanded beyond the purely material and economic to embrace more subjective dimensions of human flourishing.  Amongst a range of terms that have entered policy debates, ‘well-being’ has perhaps gained the greatest currency, incorporating both physical and cognitive elements and applied across individual and collective scales of analysis. It is clear that the definition, experience and determinants of well-being will vary in different kinds of places. However, the complex ways in which place and well-being interact remain relatively under-researched and under-theorised. This conference therefore draws together research that explicitly links well-being and place and includes research from a range of different scales of analysis, across different substantive domains and from both policy-linked and more explorative approaches.

Programme
The conference will feature over 70 papers from the academic and policy communities that focus on the relationship between well-being and place, broadly defined including:

·         Home and well-being
·         Theory, methods and ethics of well-being
·         Transitions:  well-being across this life course and the next
·         Therapeutic places and unhealthy spaces
·         Well-being in motion:  flows, networks, relations
·         Healthy environments: housing, urban design and regeneration
·         Well-being, policy and regional development

More details about the programme and registration are available on the conference website (www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/wellbeingandplace) or please contact Sara Fuller (s.k.fuller@durham.ac.uk) for further details.

The conference is organised and hosted by the Centre for the Study of Cities & Regions and the Social Wellbeing and Spatial Justice research cluster of the Department of Geography at Durham University, in collaboration with the University’s Wolfson Research Institute.