Call for Participants: In Solidarity

Deadline: Monday January 11th, 2016.     CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Round-table Deadline: Monday, January 11th, 2016. In Solidarity is a round-table dedicated to the intersecting issues, struggles, resistance strategies and political imaginations between the Black Lives Matter andPalestinian Liberation movements. The round-table is conceived as a preliminary effort to reflect on a history of solidarity work between the Black Power movement and Palestinian struggles and to build on present-day mobilizing that has surged since the of summer 2014, following the protest in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of Mike Brown’s killing and in Palestine, following the war on Gaza. Solidarity work …

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CFP for GEOMED 2015 in Florence, Italy

The meeting will be held on September 10-12, 2015 in Florence, Italy. GEOMED 2015 is the IX international, interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics, geographical epidemiology and the geographical aspects of public health. The conference brings together statisticians, geographers, epidemiologists, computer scientists, and public health professionals to discuss methods of spatial analysis, as well as present and debate the results of such analyses. The first GEOMED conference was held in Rostock (Germany) in 1997 and since then it has been held in Paris (France) in 1999 and 2001, Baltimore (USA) in 2003, Cambridge (UK) in 2005, Charleston (USA) in 2009, Victoria …

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CFP: CUNY Climate in Context Conference

I am writing to remind you about the upcoming deadline for abstract submission for the Climate in Context conference at the GC. If your work is related to either the physical or social dimensions of climate or climate change, please submit an abstract (details below) by Friday, February 13th! We would like to encourage all faculty who do climate-related research to submit a short paragraph introducing themselves and their work. The purpose would be to create a page on the website advertising CUNY faculty to help solidify the larger climate-science community across the CUNY campuses. _____ The conference is meant to …

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CFP: War and the City

Call for Articles on War and the City   Progressive Planning Magazine invites articles about war and the city for publication in upcoming issues.   We have witnessed the devastating effects of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world. With more than half the world’s population living in large cities, civilian populations are increasingly vulnerable. In addition, many people live in cities that are under military control, with checkpoints and other controls over free movement and restrictions on their right to the city. Wars take many forms: world wars, binational wars, …

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AAG Call for Papers-Energy Transitions

CALL FOR PAPERS Energy Transitions 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 21-25 April, Chicago, Illinois Energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and there are numerous unanswered questions about the timing and nature of the transition to whatever comes after the fossil fuel era. These questions cross disciplinary and epistemological lines, making them particularly suited to exploration from the perspectives of geography. Following the success of our four Energy Transitions sessions at the 2014 Annual Meeting, we are planning invited sessions for this year’s meeting that will bring together researchers looking at a variety of different …

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