The preliminary programme for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers has recently been published. The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London will be strongly represented by both staff and doctoral researchers (detailed below).
Hannah Awcock
Abstract:
The Battle of Cable Street: Space, Place and Protest in London
Sessions:
Geographies of Activism and Protest I — Presenter
Andrea Burris
Abstract:
Discourses of Creativity and the Global Division of Digital Labour
Sessions:
Mike Duggan
Abstract:
Smartphones, places, bodies: location-based services and everyday assemblages of place
Sessions:
Geographies of Media II: Big Data/Technology/Security — Presenter
David Gilbert
Abstract:
Sessions:
The Financialization of City-making: Articulating critical perspectives (2) — Presenter
Ella Harris
Abstract:
IDocs as a Contemporary Imagination of, and a way to Imagine, “The Present”
Sessions:
‘The Present’: Session 1 — Presenter
Precarious Geographies (I) Precarious Places: Urban Decline, Welfare and Employment— Organizer
Precarious Geographies (II) Precariously Placed: Migrants, Gender and Sexuality — Chair, Discussant, Organizer
Precarious Geographies (III) Sites of Resistance, Resilience and Response — Organizer
Harriet Hawkins
Sessions:
‘The Interface Envelope’ by James Ash: Author Meets Critics — Panelist
Author meets critics: Derek McCormack’s ‘Refrains for Moving Bodies’ — Discussant
Co-Producing a heuristic conceptualization of curation — Chair, Organizer
Co-Producing a heuristic conceptualization of curation (2) — Organizer
Co-Producing a heuristic conceptualization of curation (3) — Organizer
Is hope radical? Creative methods, experimental politics and diverse adventures in living through environmental change — Chair, Organizer
Presidential Plenary Session: Radical Intra-Disciplinarity — Speaker
Innes M. Keighren
Abstract:
Sessions:
Authorship and Authority: Piracy, Plagiarism, and Truth in Geographical Writing — Organizer, Presenter
Dorothea Kleine
Abstract:
Sessions:
Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Peripheries — Presenter
Marton Kocsev
Abstract:
From Hub to Hubris – the Liquid Demograpies of the Silicon Savannah
Sessions:
Chen Liu
Abstract:
Making the ideal home with culinary cultures in urban Guangzhou, China
Sessions:
Chinese Urbanism: everyday critical geographies — Presenter
Oli Mould
Abstract:
Function, minority and the event: Towards an urban politics of subversive creativity
Sessions:
The Urban Political at a Time of Late Neoliberalism I: Theorizing the Urban Political — Presenter
Mel Nowicki
Abstract:
‘I see myself as more of an occupier’: Squatting as protest in post-criminalisation London
Sessions:
Geographies of Citizenship and Dissent — Presenter
Precarious Geographies (I) Precarious Places: Urban Decline, Welfare and Employment— Chair, Organizer
Precarious Geographies (II) Precariously Placed: Migrants, Gender and Sexuality — Organizer
Precarious Geographies (III) Sites of Resistance, Resilience and Response — Chair, Discussant, Organizer
Alasdair Pinkerton
Abstract:
Sessions:
Remnants of No Man’s Land: History, theory and excess — Presenter
David Simon
Abstract:
Sessions:
Climate Change Adaptation and Gender — Presenter
Development Geographies: Looking Forward — Panelist
Geographies of Resilience 4: Cultural Perspectives on Everyday Resilience: Contributions from Geography — Discussant
Rachael Squire
Abstract:
“Man in the Sea”: The Geopolitics of UnderseaTerrain
Sessions:
Terrain 2 — Presenter
Pip Thornton
Abstract:
The Meaning of Light: Seeing and Being on the Battlefield
Sessions:
Terrain 2 — Presenter
Miranda Ward
Abstract:
Sessions:
Exercise and environment: new geographies of the exercise experience 2 — Presenter
Landscape Surgery 