Welcome to the official Blog of the 6. International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG), in Frankfurt am Main, 16.-20. August.
Here you’ll find all current information, program-updates and program-changes during the conference.
Official Conference-Website
Dienstag, 23. August 2011
Presseerklärung
450 internationale GeographInnen verabschieden Resolution
Anlässlich der 6. International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG), die vom 16. bis 20. August 2011 an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt stattgefunden hat, haben 450 WissenschaftlerInnen aus über 30 Ländern eine Resolution verabschiedet, die sich für den Erhalt und die Entwicklung des Campus Bockenheim als einen öffentlichen ...
Samstag, 20. August 2011
After five days of presentations, discussions, excursions, dinner, a couple of drinks sometimes, a nice little party on Friday night and an overall relaxed atmosphere, the 6. ICCG has ended today. As the organizers, we want to thank everybody who contributed to the success in whatever way. Let’s all meet again at the 7. ICCG!
Bernd
Montag, 15. August 2011
Program Program August PDF
Theme 1: Financial, Economic and Fiscal Crisis
Session 3 | Wednesday 14:00 | Finances and the real economy in Latin America
Féliz Mariano has withdrawn
new Paper | Understanding the foreign trade in postneoliberal Argentina: Economic growth and uneven geographical development, by Gonzalo Julián Yurkievich
Session 4 | Thursday 09:30 | Finances and the real economy
new ...
Samstag, 13. August 2011
Netzwerke und Initiativen aktivistischer und/oder kritischer akademischer Stadt- und Raum-Interessierter
(gesa
mmelt auf dem Vernetzungstreffen „Academia meets Activism“ im Rahmen der ICCG 2011)
1. INURA
Gegründet 1991
Stadtforscher_innen + Aktivist_innen
Jährliche internationale Konferenz + lokale Gruppen
Aktuelles internationales Projekt: New Metropolitan Mainstream-Projekt (Städtevergleich)
www.inur
a.org ...
Freitag, 12. August 2011
Due to changes in the program the panel discussion session 'Spaces of the Political' will now be moved to
Thursday August 18
13:00 - 14:00
Room H6
Further information on the room will be available at the conference site.
Confirmed participants include:
David Featherstone (University of Glasgow)
Matthew Sparke (University of Washington)
Rory Rowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
This ...
Dienstag, 9. August 2011
Following the dreadful events of 22/07 in Norway an additional roundtable session entitled: "Bloodland - geographies of and critical geographical responses to the 22/7 events in Norway" will bring together a range of panelist and an interested audience to discuss the events from a critical geographical perspective.
Time: Wednesday, 17 August, 18:00-19:00
Room: 114
Panelists: Robina Mohammad (University ...
Freitag, 29. Juli 2011
The conference will be hosted at the “Campus Bockenheim” of Goethe University Frankfurt. It is close to the city center and easily accessible.
Registration / Help Desk
First place to go is the conference registration desk in the „Studierendenhaus“. Here you will recieve among other things a program and maps which will guide you to all other places of the conference.
Adress:
Studi
erendenhaus
Mertonstr. ...
Freitag, 22. Juli 2011
Roundtable discussion
August 17th, 2011: 14.00-15.30
Goethe-Univers
ität Frankfurt aM, Campus Bockenheim, Room H 3
Chair:
Michael Janoschka
Department of Political Science
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
michael.janoschka (a) uam.es
http://www.michael-
janoschka.de
Participants
:
Ramón Espinar, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jorge Sequera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Vasilis Avdikos, University ...
Montag, 18. Juli 2011
At the Critical Geographers' Conference in Frankfurt 16–20 August 2011, the AK Geographie und Geschlecht (German Commission on Geography and Gender) organizes a networking meeting “Gender in Critical Geography”.
This open space event offers critical geographers with an interest in feminist geography and gender issues the opportunity to meet for a semi-formal exchange on current projects, research, ...
Samstag, 16. Juli 2011
Homapage ICCG
Registration informations
Die sechste International Critical Geography Conference der International Critical Geography Group wird im August nächsten Jahres in Frankfurt stattfinden. Nach sehr erfolgreichen Treffen in Vancouver (1997), Taegu (Südkorea; 2000), Bekescaba (Ungarn; 2002), Mexico City (2005) und Mumbai (2007) werden geschätzte 300 bis 400 kritische Wissenschaftler/innen ...