Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
12-16 April 2011
Seattle, Washington
Recent Trends in Polar Geography
Creative Peripheries: Innovation, creativity and regional
development beyond metropolis
- Recent Trends in Polar Geography
Organizers of a session entitled "Recent Trends in Polar Geography"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16 April 2011 in
Seattle, Washington.
The polar regions are currently undergoing rapid economic, political,
environmental, and climatic change. There is a growing interest in the
polar regions among both geographers and the general public. This
session invites papers examining any aspect of the human, physical,
cultural, political, or environmental geography of the polar regions.
The 2011 AAG Annual Meeting comes shortly after the end of the
International Polar Year and provides an opportunity to present results
from fieldwork or research undertaken during that time. Submissions
focusing on any area of the Arctic, pan-Arctic, or Antarctica are
welcome. Submissions from students and young scholars are encouraged.
Presenters are not limited to geographers, and interdisciplinary
research is encouraged. The papers presented at the conference will be
considered for rapid publication in the journal Polar Geography.
If you are interested in submitting an abstract to this session, you
must first complete the submission process at:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers. This process will
assign you a PIN, which must be sent to the session organizers along
with your full abstract. Organizers request that all abstracts be
submitted by Sunday, 17 October 2010 in order to allow them time to
prepare the final panels.
Abstract Deadline: Sunday, 17 October 2010.
For further information, please contact the session organizers:
Timothy Heleniak
Email: heleniak [at] umd.edu
Andrey N. Petrov
Email: andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu
- Creative Peripheries: Innovation, creativity and regional
development beyond metropolis
Organizers of a session entitled "Creative Peripheries: Innovation,
creativity and regional development beyond metropolis" announce a call
for abstracts. The session will be convened at the Association of
American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16 April 2011 in Seattle,
Washington.
Traditionally, the studies of creative capital and innovation-driven
development have been focused on metropolitan areas and successful
metropolitan regions. However, creativity-driven development is not an
exclusive prerogative of these advantaged few. Recently, some
non-metropolitan regions have been catching up on a 'learning curve' by
reworking and adapting practices that foster creative capital, support
local innovation, and spur knowledge-based development. Peripheral
regions have also demonstrated their unique abilities to engage various
forms of creative capital and develop its synergies with other kinds of
societal capital (e.g., social, civic). New path creation in peripheral
areas has been a difficult task, but has become an increasingly present
trend that needs careful investigation.
This session invites papers that analyze innovation, knowledge-based
development, and creative capital in non-central regions of the world.
Various angles and aspects of this broad topic are welcome as we try to
build intellectual synergies in this emerging research area.
If you are interested in submitting an abstract to this session, you
must first complete the submission process at:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers. This process will
assign you a PIN, which must be sent to the session organizers along
with your full abstract. Organizers request that all abstracts be
submitted by Sunday, 17 October 2010 in order to allow them time to
prepare the final panels.
Abstract Deadline: Sunday, 17 October 2010.
For further information, please contact the session organizer:
Andrey N. Petrov
Email: andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu