The 26th annual PGSG Preconference will be held at UCLA on Monday April 8.
There are thirty-six papers and an evening plenary panel featuring John Agnew, Joanne Sharp, Simon Dalby, Natalie Koch, and Sara Koopman.
The event is free for students and $20 for faculty. The full schedule is on the pgsg website:
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The PGSG and the Department of Geography at UCLA are very pleased to announce that the 2013 PGSG Preconference will be held at UCLA in Westwood, Los Angeles on Monday April 8 2013. The paper sessions will take place during the day. The PGSG will host a group dinner for preconference participants during the evening.
The preconference will be held at the UCLA Faculty Center, located at 480 Charles E. Young Drive East in Westwood.
Directions to the Faculty Center and an interactive UCLA campus map are available at http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/directions.htm and http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/, respectively.
A campus map suitable for printing or storing on a portable device can be found at http://www.ucla.edu/pdf/ucla-campus-map.pdf.
Deadlines and registration
Please submit a paper title and a 200 word abstract, along with author contact details (name, institutional address, email address), to Mat Coleman and Reece Jones at aag.pgsg@gmail.com no later than February 1 2013.
As with our past preconferences, there will be a nominal $20 registration fee for faculty only. Faculty, please bring cash if at all possible.
Accommodation
The PGSG will not be booking a block of rooms for the preconference because hotel rates in Los Angeles are very competitive. We recommend basic search engines like www.hotels.com and www.priceline.com for the best rates.
Some walkable hotel options in Westwood include:
http://www.claremonthotel.net/id2.html
http://www.wlosangeles.com/
http://www.hotelpalomar-lawestwood.com/
http://www.beverlyhillsplazahotel.com/
http://www.hilgardhouse.com/
The UCLA campus is easily accessible using public transport (see below). As a result, preconference participants may want to travel to UCLA from their hotel near the main conference.
Travel
The UCLA campus is located on the north side of West Los Angeles, in Westwood. Preconference attendees have a number of public transport options to get to campus:
LA Metro Bus lines 2, 302 and 761.
http://www.metro.net/
System maps available at http://www.metro.net/riding/maps/
Santa Monica Big Blue Bus lines 1, 2, 3, 8, and 12. (Note that Santa Monica Line 3 can be taken from the LAX Airport City Bus Center to just blocks from campus. The ride is approximately an hour and 20 minutes, depending on traffic.)
http://bigbluebus.com/
System maps available at http://bigbluebus.com/Routes-And-Schedules/Routes—Schedules.aspx
Culver City Green Bus Line 6.
http://www.culvercity.org/Government/Transportation/Bus.aspx
A system map is available at http://www.culvercity.org/Government/Transportation/~/media/Files/Bus/CCBUS_System_Map.ashx
Should you want to drive (which the organizers do not recommend, due to the high cost of parking), a UCLA parking map can be found at http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1002187.
Sincerely,
Mat Coleman, PGSG President
Reece Jones, PGSG Secretary Treasurer
Adam Moore, Department of Geography, UCLA
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Organizer: Peter Wood (Florida State University)
Activism has taken many forms in recent years, from events like the Occupy movements, the Arab Spring, and anti-austerity demonstrations in the Euro zone to less sporadic efforts such as institutionalized policy change or communication of idea through artwork. This session invites papers that explore the spatial dimensions of activism in its many shapes and sizes. All world regions are welcome, with historical analyses asked to be focused on events from the last 30 years. Possible topics include
· Religious-based activism
· Youth activism movements
· Digital landscapes of social activism
· Policing of social demonstrations
· Artivism and space
· International comparative study of activist strategy
· Gender-based activism
· Public space and social activist movements
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Peter Wood (pwood@fsu.edu) no later than Tuesday, October 23, 2012.
Organizers: Melina Patterson (University of Mary Washington) and Farhang Rouhani (University of Mary Washington)
This panel examines the complex, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes contradictory, relationships between how we teach and what we teach. We are particularly interested in the politics of teaching about politics, be they international politics, political change, critical geopolitics, social movements, radical politics, and/or political oppression.
We invite scholar/teachers to join us in a discussion about
If you are interested in participating, please contact Melina Patterson at mpatters@umw.edu with a short description of your short paper and your AAG PIN.
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Organizers: Craig A. Jones (University of British Columbia) and Michael D. Smith (University of British Columbia)
War may have always entailed rhetorics of justification and regimes of authorization, but perhaps more than ever, late modern war requires a legal armature to secure its legitimacy and organize its conduct. In the ‘age of lawfare’ (Weizman 2010), for example, law has become a vital weapon in asymmetric warfare, used by states and non-state actors alike. But there are many different kinds of war – including undeclared wars, metaphorical wars, even “military operations other than war” (MOOTW) – just as there are multiple forms, systems and scales of law. War’s “nomospheres” – to borrow from Delaney (2010) – mobilize a host of subjects, discourses, practices and institutions which in-turn reconfigure the spaces of war-law, moving us toward what Derek Gregory (2011) has called an “everywhere war”. The question, then, of the interplay of war and law – how they underpin, disrupt, enable, elide, or efface one another – remains a critical site for scholarship, one that warrants more attention from geographers (c.f. Gregory 2006; Reid-Henry 2006). What is the relationship between law and (organized state) violence? How does law feature in the putative transition from the battlefield to the hyper-networked battlespace? If war is potentially everywhere, where – so to speak – is law?
This session invites both theoretical and empirical research that engages with the intersections between war, law and space from a diverse range of approaches and perspectives. It asks contributors to consider how law makes war and vice versa, but it also asks how these productions might be interrupted and resisted. It seeks to understand the spaces of war-law through the institutions, agents and practices that authorize, enact and resist them. We welcome contributions from geographers, lawyers and other scholars on themes that may include (but are not limited to):
• Legal violence and the law as a weapon of war: ‘lawfare’ & the ‘legal war on terror’
• Targeted killing/assassination, detention and cyber warfare
• International humanitarian law (IHL); human rights law (HRL) and the laws of armed conflict (LOAC)
• Genealogies of law in armed conflict
• The links between law and legitimacy
• The representational regimes of law/war: new media, propaganda & the “citizen journalist”
• How law facilitates the political economy of war: its role in the logistics, organization, privatization and marketization of war
• War inside/outside the border: International, transnational and domestic variations of lawfare
• Witnessing war – Legal subjectivities, narrations and testimony from those who inhabit the warscape (e.g. lawyers, soldiers, civilians)
Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to organizers Craig Jones (venga@interchange.ubc.ca<
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GEOGRAPHIES OF HOPE SYMPOSIUM, AAG 2013, LOS ANGELES
STRUCTURE OF SYMPOSIUM (8 panels over 1-2 days)
I. The Plenary: What Exactly are Geographies of Hope? What is Hope?
Organizer: Julianne Hazlewood (jahaze@gmail.com)(PANEL, OPEN)
II. Hopeful Political Economies
Organizer: Lindsay Shade (lshade@gmail.com)(PAPER SESSION, CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN)
III. Gaining Ground? Geographies of Viable, Equitable Agricultures (& the Seeds Thereof)
Organizer: Garrett Graddy (garrettgraddy@gmail.com) (PANEL, OPEN)
IV. Hope and Social and Environmental Justice Geographies
Organizer: Beth Rose Middleton (bethrosy@gmail.com)(PAPER SESSION-COMPLETE)
V. Geographies of Hope: Sustaining Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and its Mitigation
Organizer: Jay Johnson (jaytjohnson@ku.edu)(PANEL, OPEN TO PARTICIPATION)
VI. Geographies of Hope and “Mas Allá”: Cosmologies, Dreams, Emotions, Healing, and “Other” Geographies Be(y)on(d) the Map
Organizer: Julianne Hazlewood (jahaze@gmail.com)(PANEL, OPEN TO PARTICIPATION)
VII. Giving Back: Defining Reciprocity in Research
Organizer: Douglas Herman (hermand@si.edu)(PAPER SESSION OR PANEL, OPEN)
VIII. Carving out Future Pathways for Geographies of Hope
Organizer: Julianne Hazlewood (jahaze@gmail.com) (PANEL, OPEN)
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Dear Friends: I have been working with colleagues to put together a paper
session on the upcoming 2012 U.S. elections. We have some firm commitments
for papers, but I want to invite any of you who may be interested to
participate. Students especially are welcome. If you may be interested
please send me an e-mail privately at fshelley@ou.edu. The AAG deadline,
as you know, is coming up on October 24.
I look forward to seeing many of you in Los Angeles! Sincerely, Fred
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