A major five-day Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development will be held on 11-15 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the days just prior to the Rio+20 Conference. Visit the website for more information. The Forum will bring together leading international scientists and policy-makers to explore the key role of interdisciplinary science [...]
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.
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
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 [...]
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.
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”.
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]