City2020+ Conference
The City2020+: Engineering Life Quality for the Future Conference will be happening 18-20 April 2012 in Aachen, Germany. For more information on the conference and how to submit a paper can be downloaded here.
Seminar on sharing environmental data
The seminar on "Sharing environmental data" will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in August 2012. Call for papers: If you would like to submit a paper you can find more information on the project website. Alternatively you can download submission forms in your language directly English Spanish Portuguese
Report on the Gender and Geography Conference in Rio de Janeiro
On 8-11 November 2011 the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography hosted the hugely successful inaugural Latin-American conference on ‘Space, Gender and Power’ at Pontificia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Organised by Dr Joseli Maria Silva and Dr Augusto César Pinheiro da Silva the conference attracted approximately 50 local delegates as well as [...]
GLOBILITY COMMISSION – Live Streaming
The next GLOBILITY COMMISSION conference, Rome September 23, will be broadcast on Streaming Live. The streaming will be from the following Sapienza University Web Site http://digilab.uniroma1.it/ You'll find the Globility Logo on the left side of the cover page which will take you to the live streaming local time in Rome on the morning of 23 September.
Geography International Symposium – 13 – 17 April 2012
On the 13th - 17th of April 2012, the “Geography International Symposium” will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Presented by the Student Association for the Department of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), in cooperation with the Indonesian Geography student association (IMAHAGI), the theme will be “Climate Change for Sustainability”.
ICSU related event – Polar Symposium, Siena (Italy), 23-24 September 2011
Research Urgencies in the Polar Regions and Their Links to the ICSU Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability Siena, Italy 23-24 September 2011 Sponsored by the ICSU organisations SCAR, IASC and IACS Supported by PNRA/MIUR, CNR and MNA Hosted by the University of Siena This two day symposium will be held in the historic city of [...]
IJEMS | EMUNI Call for Papers: Entangled Histories? Trans-Cultural Encounters and Social Mobility in the Arab Mediterranean
The International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies (www.ijems.emuni.si) is announcing a thematic issue entitled "Entangled Histories? Trans-Cultural Encounters and Social Mobility in the Arab Mediterranean," co-edited by Nadia Al-Bagdadi and Adam Mestyan from the Central European University in Budapest. This is a call for papers that seek to offer new perspectives on the complex history of trans-cultural movements and social mobility within, [...]
Japan Earthquake Disasters – Sendai Geographers’ Perspective
Dear colleagues, Natural hazard of this magnitude may only happen once in a thousand year in a place, but can happen time to time around the globe. Tohoku Geographical Association based in Sendai, at the heart of the Japan Earthquake, have launched a website to relay our experiences to geographers, administrators, hazard mitigation managers and [...]
Call for Papers – International Geographical Union Pre-Conference Symposium
International Geographical Union Pre-Conference Symposium Tourism and Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges for Conservation Geography Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile 10–13 November 2011 Organised by: IGU Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change/ UGI Géographie du Tourisme et des Loisirs et Changement Global and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Instituto de Geografia For more information on the [...]
Call for Papers and Conference – UNRISD
Dear Colleagues, Please find attached a call for papers for a conference being organised by the UNRISD on the Social Dimensions of Green Economy to be held in the United Nations in Geneva on 10-11 October 2011. Abstracts are invited from interested researchers and other specialists addressing the specified themes to be submitted by 15 May [...]