RGS/IBG Annual Conference

2016 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and Imperial College London

Wednesday 30 to Friday 2 September 2016 (with an opening event on Tuesday 30 August 2016)

Theme: Nexus Thinking

Conference chair: Peter Jackson (University of Sheffield)

EGRG sponsored a full programme of economic geography sessions at AC2016 including:

• EGRG Annual General Meeting:  Thursday 1^st September, 13:10, Imperial College, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, room SAF-119. 
• EGRG Postgraduate Drinks gathering –  Thursday 1^st September, 6.30pm at Eastside Bar on Princes Gardens.

EGRG-Sponsored sessions:

• Ethnographic methods in economic geography
• Mapping the Marginal: Exploring the Identities, Practices, Geographies and Experiences of Digital Labour
• Operations of capital: Studying the nexus of land, housing, and finance across the North-South divide
• Honouring Ray Hudson: reflecting on four decades of contribution to economic geography
• Scholar activism and the Fashion Revolution: ‘who made my clothes?’
• Sustaining Economic Geography? The movement of economic geographers to business and management schools (UK)
• Finance and Market Ideology: Interrogating the Financialization/Neoliberalism Nexus in Economic Geography and beyond
• Encountering Austerity
• A critical dialogue between Geography and Area Studies: representing and understanding economic Africa\
• The geography of work, employment and poverty