EGRG activities at RGS-IBG 2016
Please find below a summary of various Economic Geography Research Group Activities at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London at the end of this month. We hope you are able to join us.
EGRG Annual General Meeting (open to all – free pass available to allow the attendance of those not registered for the conference): Thursday 1st September, 13:10, Imperial College, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, room SAF-119. At this meeting we will be electing a new Treasurer, Events Coordinator, and Postgrad representative
EGRG Postgraduate Drinks gathering – Thursday 1st September, 6.30pm at Eastside Bar on Princes Gardens (a 3-minute walk from the conference venue).
EGRG sponsored sessions (for full details click here)
Wednesday 31 Aug 2016
- 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
Thursday 01 Sep 2016
- 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
Friday 02 Sep 2016
- Encountering Austerity
- A critical dialogue between Geography and Area Studies: representing and understanding economic Africa
- The geography of work, employment and poverty