RGS-IBG 2009

As usual the PyGyWG sponsored a number of sessions at the annual conference, which took place in Manchester August 2009.

This year, in an effort to be as participatory as possible, our sessions were held outside the official conference space, at the Ida Kinsey Community Centre in Ardwick. MAP

These sessions were open and free to the public, who did not need to be registered for the conference to attend.

The sessions were very well attended, by local residents and other ‘members of the public’, as well as academics, pygywg-ers and non-pygywg-ers alike!

We’ve had excellent feedback from all the sessions and are keen to run this initiative again at next year’s RGS-IBG conference … watch this space!

The Fuller Geography session debate

Wednesday 26th August:
4.50 - 6.30 (4.30 for refreshments)
People's Plans: opportunities for radical planning in the 21st Century?
For more info contact Libby l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Thursday 27th August:
2.30 - 4.20
Inconvenient Truth: the imperative for Geography to do something urgent about climate change
For more info contact Sophie svw05@aber.ac.uk

4.50 - 6.30
Fuller Geographies: a session of radical, bold, brash, perhaps blunt, but bloody inspiring public geography!
For more info contact Kelvin kelvin.mason@cat.org.uk

6.45 for about an hour (?!) pygywg AGM ~ members discuss the future of the group...followed by refreshments. NB membership is open to all and free! To be followed at 8pm by a celebration of Duncan Fuller's life.

Friday 28th August:
11.10 - 12.50 then 2.40 - 6.30
The right to stay put: contesting displacement in urban regeneration / development schemes, sessions 1- 3
For more info contact Chris c.allen@mmu.ac.uk or Lee l.crookes@sheffield.ac.uk or Stuart S.N.Hodkinson@leeds.ac.uk or Tom tom.slater@ed.ac.uk

Saturday 29th August:
10.00 - 12.30 then 1.15 - 6.00
The right to stay put, session 4: roundtable, field-trip, films and social (see above for contacts)

see 2009 RGS/IBG conference programme for details of all other sessions

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