Tuesday, June 25th

 

10:30 – 18:00

 

Registration

 

18:00 – 19:30

 

Conference Opening

Venue: City Theatre

Chair: Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Durham, UK)

 

Joe Painter (University of Durham, UK)

gThe International Critical Geography Grouph

Claudio Minca (University of Venice, Italy)

gCritical peripheriesh

Judit Timar (Centre for Regional Studies, Hungary):

gLessons from post-socialism: eWhatfs left to doh for emerging critical geography in Hungaryh

 

19:30

 

Opening Reception

Venue: Hotel Fiume

 

Welcome: Gyula Horvath, Director General, Centre for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

 

Wednesday, June 26th

 

9:00 – 10:30

 

Session 1:1

Venue: College Sports Hall

Theme: Critical Geographical Praxis

Plenary Session: The Spaces of Critical Geography

Panel discussion

Chair: Lawrence Berg (Okanagan University College, Canada)

 

Lawrence Berg (Okanagan University College, Canada)

Kirsten Simonsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Dina Vaiou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Blanca Ramirez (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

Sheila Hones (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Judit Timar (Centre for Regional Studies, Hungary)

Saraswati Raju (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

 


 

10:30 – 11:00

 

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00 – 12:30

 

Session 2:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Spaces of Difference

Putting post-colonialism into practice in critical geography: a workshop

Workshop

Chair: Jenny Robinson (Open University, UK),

 

 

Karen Morin (Bucknell University, US)

gAmbivalence and co-optation in Native American politicsh

Lawrence Berg (Okanagan University College, Canada)

gDecolonising identity in contemporary post-colonial societies: policy relevance of post-colonialismh

Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

gRe-colonising political borders through a post-colonial gaze: does critical western analysis perpetuate the colonial mission?h

James Sidaway (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

gPost-colonial Europe and post-colonising political geographyh

 

 

 

Session 2:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Showing/Telling Peoplefs Geographies I

Paper session

Chair: Reecia Orzeck (Syracuse University, US)

 

Anna Clua (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Eva Fekete (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Rhys Evans (University of Aberdeen, UK)


 

 

Session 2:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

The borders of a borderless world I: Restless populations

Paper session

Chair: Anders Lofgren (Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway)

 

Peter Krasztev (University of Budapest, Hungary)

gThe Balkans from the perspective of permanent migrationh

Julius Komolafe (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

gNigerian migration to Dublinh

Edwin Bakker (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

gThe Roma eExodusfh

Uli Best (University of Plymouth, UK) and Anke Struever (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

gTunnel visionsh

 

 

Session 2:4

Venue: Room E

Theme: Geopolitics of Europe

EU Enlargement I: Questions of belonging

Paper session

Chair: Joe Painter (University of Durham, UK)

 

George Begos (University of Durham, UK)

gTransnational mobility and European belongingh

Sandor Illes (Demographic Research Institute, Hungary) and Eva Lukacs (Ministry of Social and Family Affairs, Hungary)

gForeigners in Hungary: Migration to and from the EUh

Mustafa Ozturk (University of Nottingham, UK)

gEU enlargement from the Turkish perspectiveh

Ilona Szoro (Kello Library Service, Hungary)

gThe Image of Europe among young Hungariansh

 

 

12:30 – 14:00

 

Lunch, College Cafeteria


 

 

14:00 – 15:30

 

Session 3:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Critical Political Economies

Political Economy of East Asia in the Process of Globalisation

Panel session

Chair: Byung-Doo Choi (Taegu University, South Korea)

 

Byung-Doo Choi (Taegu University, South Korea)

gPolitical Economy of East Asia in the Process of Globalisation: An Introductionh

Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

gSurmounting public debt in Japan and the approach of the final solutionh

Chu-Joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

gA critical space in globalisation: historic conservation of beer production in Taipeih

Myung-Rae Cho (Dankook University, South Korea)

gNeo-liberal urban changes after the IMF crisis: the case of Glurbanising Seoulh

 

 

Session 3:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Power, Territory and Transnationality

Roundtable Discussion: Michael Hardtfs and Antonio Negrifs Empire

Panel session

Chair: Scott Kirsch (University of North Carolina, US)

 

Altha Cravey (University of North Carolina, US)

Scott Kirsch (University of North Carolina, US)

Claudio Minca (University of Venice, Italy)

Joe Painter (University of Durham, UK)

Blanca Ramirez (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

 

 

Session 3:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

Politics and the academy: activism on migration issues

Panel session

Chair: Bernd Belina (University of Bremen, Germany)

 

Peter Krasztev (University of Budapest, Hungary)

Film-making

Ricard Moren-Alegret (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Academic research and social activism in Spain and Portugal

Franck Duevell (University of Bremen, Germany)

European No-border Network


 

 

Session 3:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Geographies of Nature

Critical Perspectives on Environmental Management I

Paper session

Chair: Heath Priston (University of Toronto, Canada)

 

Matt Szabo (University of Manchester, UK)

gBauman, Levinas and non-human nature: seeking an environmental moralityh

Nick Garside (York University, Canada)

gRadical green politics and managerial ecologyh

Sajay Samuel (Penn State University, US)

gThe decision-maker dances on the ruins of the individualh

Faramarz Barimani (University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran)

gHembazi: A cultivational system in the North of Iranh

 

 

Session 3:5

Venue: Room E

Theme: Critical Geographical Praxis

Workshop: Alternative Spaces of Critical Geography I

Workshop

Chair: Lawrence Berg (Okanagan University College, Canada)

 

Paul Waley (University of Leeds, UK)

Marcella Schmidt (University of Pavia, Italy)

Teresa Mosquete (University of Salamanca, Spain)

Mustafa Ozturk (University of Nottingham, UK)

Chang Chiangwen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

Julia Leyda (Chiba University, Japan)

Nicky Gregson (University of Sheffield, UK)

Iria Matsuda (Kobe University, Japan)

Lasse Koefoed (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Euan Hague (Syracuse University, US)

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

 

Coffee Break


 

 

16:00 – 17:30

 

Session 4:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Critical Political Economies

Globalisation Reconsidered

Panel session

Chair: Ben Derudder (University of Ghent, Belgium)

 

Ben Derudder (University of Ghent, Belgium)

gThe spatial organisation of globalisation: a geography without place?h

Richard Smith (University of Leicester, UK)

gWorldcity actor-networksh

Mateusz Wiercinski (Akademia Swietokrzyska, Poland)

gGlobalisation and the problem of survival of tribal culturesh

Paul Waley (University of Leeds, UK)

gOn the margins of the global city: small manufacturers in Tokyoh

 

 

Session 4:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Power, Territory and Transnationality

Cities, civil societies and transnationalism

Paper session

Chair: Altha Cravey (University of North Carolina, US)

 

Anna Secor (University of Kentucky, US)

gRe-imagining civil socity: a view from Istanbulh

Ngai Pun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

gThe Politics of Dyscape: Mapping Everyday Resistance in a Hong Kong Communityh

Ralph Saunders (California State University, US)

gTransnational Communities and National Identity in Los Angelesh

Hung-Jen Tan (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

gThe politics of public space: a case study from Taiwanh

Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

gUrban Ethnocracy: Ethnicization and Informality in an Israeli Mixed Cityh

 


Session 4:3

Venue: Room C

Themes: Critical Political Economies and Geopolitics of Europe

Comparative Transitions I: Urban and Regional Transition in Post-Socialist Countries

Paper session

Chair: Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Durham, UK)

 

Dragos Simandan (University of Bristol, UK)

gTheorising the failure to implement capitalisms: from the analyses of macro-economic polities to the rhetoric of  ethnic inadequacyh

Erika Nagy (Centre for Regional Studies, Hungary)

gfHabitablef or ecompetitivef cities? Conflicts emerging in urban space in a society shfting from controlled structures towards market-driven differentiationh

Krisztina Keresztely (Centre for Regional Studies, Hungary)

Title to be confirmed

Alison Stenning (University of Birmingham, UK)

gRe-placing work: economic transformations and the shape of a community in post-socialist Polandh

Zoltan Kovacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

gGeographical features of post-socialist urban transformation in East Central Europeh

 

 

Session 4:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Geographies of Nature

Nature at the Intersection of Political Geography

Paper session

Chair: Koji Nakashima (Kanazawa University, Japan)

 

Naoki Oshiro and Iria Matsuda (Kobe University, Japan) 

gDe-naturalising landscape as a practice of cultural productionh

Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

gSovereignty, privatisation and natural capital in South Africah

Koji Nakashima (Kanazawa University, Japan)

gNature as a locus of resistance: representation and appropriation of nature in the grass-roots movement against the US military exercises in Hijudai, Japanh

Marcella Schmidt (University of Pavia, Italy)

gEnvironmental conflicts in Italy: the paradoxes of participationh

 

 

Session 4:5

Venue: Room E

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

Film screening and debate

Peter Krasztev (University of Budapest, Hungary)

gHuman Explosivesh


 

 

19:00

 

Dinner, College Cafeteria

 

 

 

Thursday, June 27th

 

9:00 – 10:30

 

Session 5:1

Venue: Room A

Themes: Borders, Migrations and Displacement and Geopolitics of Europe

New political constellations: regressive politics, right-wing governments and reactions to September 11th

Panel discussion

Chair: Matthias Naumann (Humboldt University, Germany)

 

Bernd Belina (University of Bremen, Germany), Uli Best (University of Plymouth, UK) and Anke Struever (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

gNothing remains = more of the same? German politics after September 11thh

Peter Mayall (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

gExploring the Geopolitical (Dis)Continuities of September 11th and the Consequent eWar on Terrorismfh

Veronica Della Dora (University of California, Los Angeles, US)

gLogos and Pathos in Anti-Terrorism Cartographic Discourseh

 

 

Session 5:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Showing/Telling Peoplefs Geographies II

Paper session

Chair: Richard Van Deusen (Syracuse University, US)

 

Fabrizio Eva (University of Venice, Italy)

Laam Hae (Syracuse University, US)

Kristine Miller (University of Minnesota, US)


 

 

Session 5:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Critical Political Economies

Critical Perspectives on Urban Development Strategies

Paper session

Chair: Jenny Robinson (Open University, UK)

 

Edward Huijbens (University of Durham, UK)

gMultipolis: the multiple coexisting spatial temporalities in the modern western metropolish

Anders Lund Hansen (Lund University, Sweden)

gSpace wars in Copenhagenh

Jenny Robinson (Open University, UK)

gCity development strategies: scope for alternative urban developmenth

Hyun-Soo Kang (Jungbu University, South Korea)

gKorean Regional Policy after the Economic Crisis: A Critiqueh

 

 

Session 5:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Spaces of Difference

 

 

Session 5:5

Venue: Room E

Theme: Critical Geographical Praxis

Workshop: Alternative Spaces of Critical Geography II

Workshop

Chair: Blanca Ramirez (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

 

Joanna Roberts (University of Sheffield, UK)

Lotte Kenten  (University of Sheffield, UK)

Naoki Oshiro (Kobe University)

Sabine Motzenbacker (University of Berne, Switzerland)

Abel Albet (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Mateusz Wiercinski (Akademia Swietokrzyska, Poland)

Chen Chungchuan (National Sun Yai-Sen University, Taiwan)

Marv Waterstone (University of Arizona, US)

Cheng Yuhui (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

Pau Velat Rafols (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

 

Coffee Break


 

 

11:00 – 12:30

 

Session 6:1

Venue: Room A

Themes: Borders, Migrations and Displacement and Geopolitics of Europe

Regions and Regional Ideologies in Europe

Paper session

Chair: James Scott (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

 

Jozsef Benedek (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)

gNew meanings of regions in Romaniah

Andrea Kotoszne Szekely (University of Szeged, Hungary)

gHungarian cross-border cooperation with neighbouring countriesh

Sebastian Schroeder and Judith Miggelbrink (Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany)

gThe making of EU regional policyh

Witold Wilczynski (Akademia Swietokrzyska, Poland)

gSocial construction of regional space in Polandh

Gabor Nagy (Centre for Regional Studies, Hungary)

gUncertain de-concentration process: A critical view on Hungarian regional policy in the 1990sh

 

 

Session 6:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

The Curriculum: Getting Radical Geography into the Classrooms – at the Secondary and the University Levels

Paper session

Chair: Euan Hague (Syracuse University, US)

 

Euan Hague (Syracuse University, US)

Louise Appleton (European Research Centre, UK)

Jamey Essex (Syracuse University, US)

Carrie Breitbach (Syracuse University, US)


 

 

Session 6:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Critical Political Economies

Segregation, Polarisation and Urban Poverty

Paper session

Chair: Anders Lund Hansen (Lund University, Sweden)

 

Paolo De Brito Soares (State University of Campinas, Brazil)

gZoning and socio-spatial segregation in Campinas, Brazilh

Seok-Hoe Yim (Taegu University, South Korea)

gGeographical Features of Social Polarisation in Seoulh

Rahim Rahnema (Ferdowsi Mashhad University, Iran)

gStrategies for reduction of urban poverty in Iran: case studyh

Christoph Waack (Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany)

gGold rush in Romania – strategy for regional development against poverty or dirty game of global players?h

 

 

Session 6:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Spaces of Difference

 

 

Session 6:5

Venue: Room E

Open Workshop

Towards a new Statement of Purpose for the International Critical Geography Group

Chair: Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

 

 

12:30 – 14:00

 

Lunch, College Cafeteria

 

 

14:00 –

 

Local field trips – please consult the web site for details

 

 

Free evening

 


 

Friday, June 28th

 

9:00 – 10:30

 

Session 7:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Guerrilla Geographies: Disseminating Radical Geographical Knowledge through Pamphleteering

Workshop

Chair. Richard Van Deusen (Syracuse University, US)

 

Tamami Fukuda (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)

Kanishka Goonewardena (University of Toronto, Canada)

Jim Ketchum (Syracuse University, US)

Britta Trostorff (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

 

 

Session 7:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Power, Territory and Transnationality

Geographies of Transnationalism and Globalisation

Paper session

Chair: Ralph Saunders (California State University, US)

 

 

Jeronimo Montero (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina)

gObstacles for the FTAA and the emilitary optionf: Lights and shadows in Latin Americah

Neil Smith (City University of New York, US)

gMapping the American Century: Lost geographies and failed globalisations from Versailles to Afghanistanh

Banu Gokariksel (University of Washington, US)

gTerritorialising Globalisation and Transnationalism: Developing the Concept of eSituated Modernitiesfh

Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, US)

gComparative Geographies of Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Educationh


 

 

Session 7:3

Venue: Room C

Writing the new Eastern and Central Europe

Paper session

Chair: Alison Stenning (University of Birmingham, UK)

 

Laimis Briedis (University of British Columbia, Canada)

gEuropean frontiers of Vilniush

Elena DellfAgnese (University of Milano, Italy)

gCommodifying Sarajevofs imageh

Alex Jeffrey (University of Durham, UK)

gRepresenting democracy in Bosniah

Gabor Velkey (Centre for Regional Studies and Bekescsaba City Government, Hungary)

gDemocratic deficit: the expansion of the power of the parties in space and timeh

 

 

Session 7:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Geographies of Nature

Critical Perspectives on Environmental Management II

Paper session

Chair: Heath Priston (University of Toronto, Canada)

 

Dean Bavington (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

gManagerial ecology, politics and ethics: exploring the complexities of control, coping and consent in culture-nature relationsh

Timothy Luke (Virginia Tech, US)

gAdaptive and collaborative environmental management: improvements beyond, or simply refinements of ecomanagerialism?h

Heath Priston (University of Toronto, Canada)

gManaging quality of life: the sustainability of entrepreneurial place promotionh

Saeed Parto (University of Waterloo, Canada)

gOperationalising industrial modernisation: some policy implicationsh

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

 

Coffee Break


 

 

 

11:00 – 12:30

 

Session 8:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Peoplefs Geographies of and after September 11th. How can we tell the geographies of terrorism so as to promote the struggle for justice?

Roundtable debate 

Chair: Clayton Rosati (Syracuse University, US)

 

Cindi Katz (City University of New York, US)

Don Mitchell (Syracuse University)

Neil Smith (City University of New York, US)

 

 

Session 8:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Power, Territory and Transnationality

The Space of Flows? Power, Capital and Territoriality

Paper session

Chair: Scott Kirsch (University of North Carolina, US)

 

Ben Derudder (University of Ghent, Belgium)

gTimeless Time and Placeless Space in a Network Society? A Geohistorical Critiqueh

Anna Clua (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

gWhose information? Locatine einformation societyfh

Janos Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

gWho is subsidised by the state? The role of governmental policy in the growth of regional differences in Hungary after 1990h

Gabriel Videla (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

gExploring current capital(ism) through the international hotel industry. An approximation from Buenos Airesh


 

 

Session 8:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

National politics and discourses of integration and exclusion

Paper session

Chair: Anke Struever (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

 

Harald Bauder (University of Guelph, Canada)

gEquality, justice and the problem of the internal border. Labour market integration and exclusion of migrants in Canadah

Thomas Buerk-Matsunami (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

gfNationally liberatedf zones/spaces of fear in Germanyh

Csaba Miklos Kovacs (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)

gMotivational backgrounds and patter of migration for Romaniafs Ethnic Hungarian Intellectual Elitesh

Ricard Moren-Alegret (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

gIs eintegrationf a useful concept in migration issues? Lessons and open questions from research in Spain and Portugalh

Robert Vanderbeck (University of Vermont, US)

gBritish discourse and practice in relation to gypsies and travellersh

 

 

Session 8:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Geographies of Nature

Critical Perspectives on Hazards and Degradation

Paper session

Chair: Kenji Tsutsumi (Osaka University, Japan)

 

Heinz Nissel (University of Vienna, Austria)

Critical geopolitics of the Temelin case in the European Union

Janos Rakonczai (University of Szeged, Hungary)

gHigh water level in Hungarian rivers: politics, science and mediah

Kenji Tsutsumi (Osaka University, Japan)

gForest commons in present-day Japan: a new trend in forest land useh

 

 

12:30 – 14:00

 

Lunch, College Cafeteria


 

 

14:00 – 15:30

 

Session 9:1

Venue: Room A

Themes: Geopolitics of Europe and Critical Political Economies

Comparative Transitions II: A panel debate on democratisation and free-marketisation in Eastern and Central Europe and Asia

Panel discussion

Chair: Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

 

Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

Witold Wilczynski (Akademia Swietokrzyska, Poland)

Ganna Gerasymenko (Ukrainian academy of Sciences, Ukraine)

Gabor Velkey (Centre for Regional Studies and Bekescsaba City Government, Hungary)

Byung-Doo Choi (Taegu University, South Korea)

Li Huang (East China Normal University, Peoplefs Republic of China)

Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Durham, UK)

 

 

Session 9:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Critical Political Economies

New Perspectives on Urban Culture and Cultural Governance

Paper session

Chair: Martin Bickl (University of Durham, UK)

 

Hans W.E. Thorsen (Nord-Trondelag University College, Norway)

gCross-boundary educational networks in middle Scandinaviah

Issa Ebrahimzadeh (University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran)

gMigration and urban dwelling without planning: a case study of Zahedan, Iranh

Esben Holm Nielsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)

gEveryday participation, socio-spatial strategies and the construction of fields of urban politiesh

Martin Bickl (University of Durham, UK)

gImage, representation and governance in inward investment promotionh


 

 

Session 9:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

The borders of a borderless world II: The global scale: borders, borderless economies and migrations

Paper session

Chair: Olivier Kramsch (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

 

Helen Sakho (South Bank University, UK)

gMigration of global corporate managers to the UKh

Franck Duevell (University of Bremen)  

gMigration, the global migration regime and global justiceh

Matt Sparke (University of Washington, US)

gOn the borders of the borderless of world: the transborder entrenchment of neoliberalismh

 

 

Session 9:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Spaces of Difference

 

 

Session 9:5

Venue: Room E

Theme: Critical Geographical Praxis

Reading Group: Anglo American Hegemony and Writing the World

Open reading group

Chair: Lawrence Berg (Okanagan University College, Canada)

 

Papers for discussion available on the conference web site:

gOn writing (across) Europe: writing spaces, writing practices and representations of Europeh (Gregson et al.)

gAmerica Unlimitedh (Berg and Kearns)

gVenetian Geographical Praxish (Minca)

gExclusions, inclusions, and occlusions in eAnglo-American geographyf: reflections on Mincafs eVenetian Geographical Praxisfh (Samers and Sidaway)

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

 

Coffee Break


 

 

17:30 – 19:00

 

Plenary Lecture

Venue: City Theatre

 

Ash Amin (University of Durham, UK)

 

 

19:30

 

Conference Dinner

Venue: Hotel Fiume

 

 

 

Saturday, June 29th

 

9:00 – 10:30

 

Session 10:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Geographies of Nature

Nature, Race and Identity

Paper session

Chair: Caroline Desbiens (University of Georgia, US)

 

Koji Kanda (Osaka City University, Japan)

gLandscapes of national parks in Taiwan under the Japanese colonial periodh

Csaba Patkos and Zoltan Baros (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

gPeople-forest emotional relationship in Hungarian landscapesh

Hitoshi Nishibe (Osaka City University, Japan)

gEuro-American imperialism and modern Japanese intellectualsf gaze at domestic citiesh

 

 

Session 10:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Forget Producing Space, now is the time to take it: the need for peoplefs control of land, territory and state in an era of globalisation I

Paper session

Chair: Clayton Rosati (Syracuse University)

 

Jim Ketchum (Syracuse University)

Patricia Vargas-Sarmiento (Andes University, Colombia)

Vincente Di Cione (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Tomoko Yamada (Kyoto Seika University, Japan)

 

 

Session 10:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Geopolitics of Europe

Visions of Europe: a panel debate on the meanings of the European project, from the single currency to a European citizenship

Panel discussion

Chair: Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Durham, UK)

 

Ash Amin (University of Durham, UK)

James Scott (Free University, Berlin, Germany)

Sebastian Schroeder (Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany)

Mustafa Ozturk (University of Nottingham, UK)

 

 

Session 10:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

Film screening and debate

Franck Duevell (University of Bremen, Germany)

gThe campaign against the deportation of Lebanese Kurds in Germanyh

 

 

Session 10:5

Venue: Room E

Theme: Critical Geographical Praxis

Reading Group: The Spaces of Latin American Critical Geography

Open reading group

Chair: Blanca Ramirez (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

 

 

Papers for discussion available on the conference web site:

gLatin American geography: social practice and change. A challenge for the futureh (Ramirez and Calderon)

gA look at traditional geographic approaches and the professionalization of this discipline. A critical analysis of Spanish Geographyh  (Segrelles)

gAn apology for and a critique of critical geography. Towards an affirmative geography for emancipationh (Videla)

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

 

Coffee Break

 


 

 

11:00 – 12:30

 

Session 11:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Geographies of Nature

Roundtable discussion: Social theories and ecological issues

Roudtable discussion

Chair: Caroline Desbiens (University of Georgia, US)

 

Paper for discussion: Andrea Nightingale (University of Aberdeen, UK)

 

Discussants:

Sang-Hun Lee (Greenfuture, South Korea)

Caroline Desbiens (University of Georgia, US)

Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota, US)

Neil Smith (City University of New York, US)

 

 

Session 11:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Forget Producing Space, now is the time to take it: the need for peoplefs control of land, territory and state in an era of globalisation II

Paper session

Chair: Don Mitchell (Syracuse University, US)

 

Mira Engler (Iowa State University, US)

Lisa Law (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Clayton Rosati (Syracuse University, US)


 

Session 11:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

Regional geopolitics, governance and borders

Paper session

Chair: Olivier Kramsch (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

 

Sanjay Chaturvedi (Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, India)

gThe Unfolding Partition of eBritish Indiaf: Borders, Migrations and Displacements in South Asiah

James Sidaway, Tim Bunnell, Carl Grundy-Warr (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Matt Sparke (University of Washington, US)

gAccumulation, Regionalisation and Sovereignty: The Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle (IMS-GT)h

Li Huang (East China Normal University, Peoplefs Republic of China), Liu Chaoyin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and Lin Tefu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) 

gDeveloping a frontier region: the cotton textile industry behind the West China Development Policyh

Liu Chaoyin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and Lin Tefu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) 

gBorder Regions in Cross-border City-Region Developmenth

 

 

Session 11:4

Venue: Room D

Theme: Geopolitics of Europe

EU Enlargement II: The politics and geo-politics of European integration

Paper session

Chair: Heinz Nissel (University of Vienna, Austria)

 

Balint Csatari (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

gEuropean Accession from the viewpoint of Hungaryfs rural populationh

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro (University of Wisconsin, US)

gNATO-EU relations and EU enlargementh

Heinz Nissel (University of Vienna, Austria)

gContesting EU enlargement: the case of Temelinh

Lajos Olasz (Szeged Science University, Hungary)

gChanges in the Geopolitics of Central Europe and National and Ethnic Problems: Integration and/or Re-nationalisationh

Teresa Vicente Mosquete (University of Salamanca, Spain)

gA comparison of peripheral regions in Europe: from South to East or from East to Southh

 

 

12:30 – 14:00

 

Lunch, College Cafeteria


 

 

14:00 – 15:30

 

Session 12:1

Venue: Room A

Theme: Peoplefs Geographies

Developing Peoplefs Geographies Around the World. Problems, Promises and Modes of Solidarity.

Panel discussion

Chair: Don Mitchell (Syracuse University, US)

 

Ilona Eke (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Matt Hannah (University of Vermont, US)

Rob Kitchin (National University of Ireland, Ireland)

Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)

 

 

Session 12:2

Venue: Room B

Theme: Power, Territory and Transnationality

Breakout panel: Power, Territory and Transnationalism

Panel discussion

Co-chairs: Altha Cravey (University of North Carolina, US) and Scott Kirsch (University of North Carolina, US)

 

 

Session 12:3

Venue: Room C

Theme: Borders, Migrations and Displacement

Open forum/Final Discussion: (Geo)Politics, Methodologies, Borders

Panel discussion

Chair: James Sidaway (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

 

 

15:30 – 16:00

 

Coffee Break

 

 

16:30 – 18:00

 

Closing Plenary

Venue: College Sports Hall

 

 

19:00

 

Dinner, College Cafeteria

 

 

20:00 –

 

Conference closure and celebration

Venue: College Sports Hall

 

 

 

Sunday, June 30th

 

7:00

 

Departure for Romania field trip

 

(full details about the trip are available on the conference web site)