**Workshops and times are subject to change
9.00am - 1.00pm
The University of Queensland
Aesthetics, Anxieties and Atmospheres: Illuminated urban nightscapes
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)
1.00pm - 8.00pm
The University of Queensland
Experiments with light. Discussion of readings followed by an outdoor session in Brisbane city.
Please email Vickie Zhang Vickie.Zhang@anu.edu.au and Michele Lobo to express your interest Michele.Lobo@deakin.edu.au by 20 May 2017. Everyone is welcome!
Health Geography Study Group Workshop
Tuesday 11 July (Full Day Workshop)
9.10am - 4.30pm
The University of Queensland
The Health Geography study group workshop is a full day workshop held on 11 July at The University of Queensland.
This year the workshop will focus more heavily on the theme of data needs for Australian researchers investigating place effects on health. You will have to opportunity to hear from a wide variety of speakers. Most importantly, the workshop provides a forum for networking and collaborative opportunities.
Click here to download a flyer
Connecting with Place
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)
12.30pm - 5.00pm
West End Croquet Club, Musgrave Park, Cordelia St, South Brisbane (TBC)
Lunch and afternoon tea provided
‘Connecting to Place’ aims to bring together IAG participants and members of Brisbane’s Aboriginal and activist communities, with a focus on Indigenous peoples’ knowledges, rights and connections to Country. The purpose of the workshop is to engage deeply with Indigenous connections to the Brisbane area, including Indigenous perspectives on connections to Country and Aboriginal space in the city. The workshop also aims to build relationships beyond the academy by bringing together a range of participants across academia, local NGOs and community groups.
Legal Geography Methods
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)
2.00pm - 5.00pm (approx)
The University of Queensland
No attendance fee
Legal geography is an emerging field that is receiving growing scholarly and practitioner interest, is the subject of several texts and journal special issues, and which has shown promise in relation to a range of geographical themes and topics (e.g. space, place, scale, nature, materialities, post-human, urban/rural, postcolonial/plural legal settings, climate change impacts/adaptation and others). Despite this, there has been relatively little explicit review or focus on methods. This workshop seeks to collect, review, analyse and discuss several articles and case studies from legal geography. It aims to draw out some of the key emerging methods and to encourage PhDs, new and existing researchers to engage with these approaches and the field of study.
Enhancing Political Ecology Research: A Political Natures Workshop
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)
1.00pm - 6.00pm
The University of Queensland
No attendance fee. Afternoon tea provided.
This workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore how society’s knowledge, modification and management of nature are oftentimes imbued with politics, controversy, inequity and deception, and also important opportunities for conciliation, alterity and the pursuit of just and progressive ideals. In this workshop, participants will (a) discover a novel framework of conceptual and analytic lenses to examine Political Natures and (b) apply this framework to their own areas of scholarship.
The first portion of the workshop will review three meta-themes – Constructing Nature, Degrading Nature and Governing Nature – before turning our attention to ten specific lenses that will introduce participants to a wide range of political ecology theories, concepts and frameworks. These ten lenses – which include themes such as Counting Nature, Consuming Nature, Producing Nature and Sustaining Nature – will utilize themes from critical development studies, postcolonial studies, critical physical geography, science and technology studies, among others.
The second portion of the workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to apply these lenses to their own research using a number of individual and interactive group exercises. This segment of the workshop will help participants determine how best to leverage the field of political ecology in their own work. As part of this exercise, workshop members will be asked to identify suitable concepts, methods and data types that will convert political ecology theory into applied research. The intimate and interactive forum is open to graduate students and early career scholars, as well others wishing to bring a stronger political ecology emphasis into their research.
You are able to sign up to attend this workshop through the IAG Conference registration - https://absoluteevents.eventsair.com/iag2017/reg
Once registered, please send a paragraph about your research interests (primarily those you would like to explore in the second part of the workshop) to sonia.graham@unsw.edu.au.
1.30pm - 5.30pm
The University of Queensland
No attendance fee
Postgraduates working in urban geography will be able to present a short paper and receive focused feedback, participate in a speed mentoring session with academics at a variety of career stages, and participate in a whole-of-room discussion on core issues arising from the speed mentoring.
Paper presentations will be short, with a 10-minute hard limit and 10 minutes of feedback. If you want to present for less time and get more feedback to a combined total of 20 minutes, that is also welcome. Presentations can be informal, experimental, and exploratory. If you are presenting in the main conference, we would prefer that you do not present that paper unless you have not had a chance to present it to an audience before, but please note that you will have to fit it within the shorter time limit.
If you want to present, please send your name, presentation title, and short (100 word max.) abstract/outline ASAP to Dr Louise Crabtree, l.crabtree@westernsydney.edu.au. Louise can also be reached on 0420 946 186 for any clarification.
Please note that paper submissions will close on Friday 9 June to allow time for review and scheduling. Attendees not presenting can still register after that date.
Postgrad Day Morning Workshop
Tuesday 11 July (Morning Workshop)9.00am - 1.00pm
The University of Queensland
Aesthetics, Anxieties and Atmospheres: Illuminated urban nightscapes
A workshop with Professor Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Hosted by Cultural Geography Study Group
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)1.00pm - 8.00pm
The University of Queensland
Experiments with light. Discussion of readings followed by an outdoor session in Brisbane city.
Please email Vickie Zhang Vickie.Zhang@anu.edu.au and Michele Lobo to express your interest Michele.Lobo@deakin.edu.au by 20 May 2017. Everyone is welcome!
Health Geography Study Group Workshop
With Dr Dianna Smith, University of Southhampton
Hosted by Health Geography Study Group
Tuesday 11 July (Full Day Workshop)9.10am - 4.30pm
The University of Queensland
The Health Geography study group workshop is a full day workshop held on 11 July at The University of Queensland.
This year the workshop will focus more heavily on the theme of data needs for Australian researchers investigating place effects on health. You will have to opportunity to hear from a wide variety of speakers. Most importantly, the workshop provides a forum for networking and collaborative opportunities.
Click here to download a flyer
Connecting with Place
Hosted by Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledges and Rights Study Group
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)12.30pm - 5.00pm
West End Croquet Club, Musgrave Park, Cordelia St, South Brisbane (TBC)
Lunch and afternoon tea provided
‘Connecting to Place’ aims to bring together IAG participants and members of Brisbane’s Aboriginal and activist communities, with a focus on Indigenous peoples’ knowledges, rights and connections to Country. The purpose of the workshop is to engage deeply with Indigenous connections to the Brisbane area, including Indigenous perspectives on connections to Country and Aboriginal space in the city. The workshop also aims to build relationships beyond the academy by bringing together a range of participants across academia, local NGOs and community groups.
Legal Geography Methods
Hosted by Legal Geography Study Group
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)2.00pm - 5.00pm (approx)
The University of Queensland
No attendance fee
Legal geography is an emerging field that is receiving growing scholarly and practitioner interest, is the subject of several texts and journal special issues, and which has shown promise in relation to a range of geographical themes and topics (e.g. space, place, scale, nature, materialities, post-human, urban/rural, postcolonial/plural legal settings, climate change impacts/adaptation and others). Despite this, there has been relatively little explicit review or focus on methods. This workshop seeks to collect, review, analyse and discuss several articles and case studies from legal geography. It aims to draw out some of the key emerging methods and to encourage PhDs, new and existing researchers to engage with these approaches and the field of study.
Enhancing Political Ecology Research: A Political Natures Workshop
With Dr Gregory Simon, University of Colorado
Hosted by the IAG Rural Geographies, and Hazard, Risk and Disasters Study Groups
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)1.00pm - 6.00pm
The University of Queensland
No attendance fee. Afternoon tea provided.
This workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore how society’s knowledge, modification and management of nature are oftentimes imbued with politics, controversy, inequity and deception, and also important opportunities for conciliation, alterity and the pursuit of just and progressive ideals. In this workshop, participants will (a) discover a novel framework of conceptual and analytic lenses to examine Political Natures and (b) apply this framework to their own areas of scholarship.
The first portion of the workshop will review three meta-themes – Constructing Nature, Degrading Nature and Governing Nature – before turning our attention to ten specific lenses that will introduce participants to a wide range of political ecology theories, concepts and frameworks. These ten lenses – which include themes such as Counting Nature, Consuming Nature, Producing Nature and Sustaining Nature – will utilize themes from critical development studies, postcolonial studies, critical physical geography, science and technology studies, among others.
The second portion of the workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to apply these lenses to their own research using a number of individual and interactive group exercises. This segment of the workshop will help participants determine how best to leverage the field of political ecology in their own work. As part of this exercise, workshop members will be asked to identify suitable concepts, methods and data types that will convert political ecology theory into applied research. The intimate and interactive forum is open to graduate students and early career scholars, as well others wishing to bring a stronger political ecology emphasis into their research.
You are able to sign up to attend this workshop through the IAG Conference registration - https://absoluteevents.eventsair.com/iag2017/reg
Once registered, please send a paragraph about your research interests (primarily those you would like to explore in the second part of the workshop) to sonia.graham@unsw.edu.au.
Urban Geography Study Group Postgraduate Workshop
Tuesday 11 July (Afternoon Workshop)1.30pm - 5.30pm
The University of Queensland
No attendance fee
Postgraduates working in urban geography will be able to present a short paper and receive focused feedback, participate in a speed mentoring session with academics at a variety of career stages, and participate in a whole-of-room discussion on core issues arising from the speed mentoring.
Paper presentations will be short, with a 10-minute hard limit and 10 minutes of feedback. If you want to present for less time and get more feedback to a combined total of 20 minutes, that is also welcome. Presentations can be informal, experimental, and exploratory. If you are presenting in the main conference, we would prefer that you do not present that paper unless you have not had a chance to present it to an audience before, but please note that you will have to fit it within the shorter time limit.
If you want to present, please send your name, presentation title, and short (100 word max.) abstract/outline ASAP to Dr Louise Crabtree, l.crabtree@westernsydney.edu.au. Louise can also be reached on 0420 946 186 for any clarification.
Please note that paper submissions will close on Friday 9 June to allow time for review and scheduling. Attendees not presenting can still register after that date.
