Development Geographies Research Group - Wednesday14 February
The Development Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG invites session proposals for (co-)sponsorship by our Research Group for the 2024 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
The Chair of the 2024 conference is Professor Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham, UK). The conference theme is Mapping.
Session sponsorship means that a session is tagged in the conference programme with the Research Group’s name and gives session organisers the opportunity to promote the session through our Research Group networks. Unfortunately, session sponsorship does not include financial sponsorship. DevRG is however able to offer a limited number of guest passes (covering the registration fee for a day’s in-person attendance at the conference, but not travel or accommodation). The application process for guest passes will be announced via our mailing list later in spring 2024.
We are keen to sponsor sessions that directly relate to the conference theme but also those sessions that engage with broader issues of contemporary concern to development geographers. The sessions can be pitched as paper panels, roundtables, workshops and sessions that include Development practitioners. We strongly encourage innovative and inclusive formats. We also strongly encourage sessions which are led by or include scholars or practitioners based in the Global South. We particularly welcome applications for the following themes:
- Geographies of counter-mapping
- The power to map in a development context
- The epistemic, discursive, and/or spatial role of mapping in development projects
- Colonial histories of mapping in development geographies
The deadline is Wednesday 14 February 2024 at 5pm. Please contact DevRG Co-Chair Dr Katharina Richter if you would like your session to be considered for sponsorship (k.richter@bristol.ac.uk).
We will endeavour to notify you as soon as possible. There are no forms, if you are interested, please email us with the following information:
- Title of session
- Name of co-sponsoring groups (if applicable)
- Name, affiliation, and contact details for session convenors
- Session abstract (max 300 words, excl. references)
- Indication (if known) of preferred session format (in-person, hybrid, or online) and session type (papers, panel, workshop, etc.). See here for some suggestions. Sessions will be limited to TWO timeslots in the programme. A timeslot is 1 hour 40 minutes
- Indication of any non-standard arrangements and/or hybrid session requirements (and a justification how the hybrid session would be competitive).
Details of the individual papers in the session are not required at this point.