Preparations remain on track for the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take place from 4th to 9th August 2013. The Kyoto Local Organising Committee has announced with great pleasure that the preliminary program is now available on the website (http://www.igu-kyoto2013.org/). Please check the program to confirm the day, time and session of your own [...]
International Geographical Union Union Géographique International 2012 Annual Report The International Geographical Union (IGU) The IGU was founded under the auspices of the International Research Council in 1922 in Brussels, having been conceived some years earlier in Paris. Its debut as a formal, continuing organization was preceded by ten International Geographical Congresses, the first of which was held [...]
Breaking news from the Kyoto Local Organising Committee: Extension of Deadline for Abstraction Submission From October 10 last year, we started to receive abstract submissions for IGU Kyoto Regional Conference (KRC), which will be held August 4-Â?9. As you know, the original deadline for submission (January 15, 2013) is drawing near. Unfortunately, however, the number [...]
Quadrennial bibliographies covering works on the Geography of Ireland and by geographers based in Northern Ireland or in the Republic of Ireland have been produced for the international congresses of the IGU. These are now available online and cover the period 1988-2011. To view these bibliographies, please visit the website here.
The International Geographical Congress that concluded at the University of Cologne just a few weeks ago was an unprecedented success for the IGU. Thanks to the selfless efforts of the IGC2012 Local Organising Committee under the fine leadership of Dr Frauke Kraas and Professor Dieter Soyez the congress went off without a hitch. Moreoever, the [...]
There are two interesting job vacancies available at Humboldt-Univeristaet zu Berlin. For more information download the below PDFs: [wpdm_file id=94] [wpdm_file id=95] Alternatively, click here to visit the website.
Eight years of waiting and anticipation: the hard work is almost done. The machine that is the Local Organising Committee - a younger and more energetic team you cannot find - is now fine-tuning the operations to welcome more than 2000 delegates to the International Geographical Congress at the University of Cologne. With just a few [...]
These maps illustrate the proportion of registered participants for the upcoming 32nd International Geographical Congress at the University of Cologne, Germany. The size of the individual countries is proportional to the number of registered delegates (2400 in all). Naturally, there is domination by the European participants (especially Germany - so that one of the maps excludes the German data to [...]
The deadline for submission of abstracts for the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Krakow, Poland, has now been extended to 27th January 2014. Please note the following important dates and visit the conference website for further informationwww.igu2014.org 27 January 2014 - Deadline for submitting abstracts for papers and posters 25 February 2014 ? Notification of results of abstract [...]
This week the world says farewell to perhaps the greatest human being of our time. Nelson Mandela, known affectionately in South Africa as Tata Madiba, died peacefully on 5th December at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg. Madiba has a special relationship with the IGU since he opened the Durban Regional Conference in 2002 and was [...]
