Discussion Group: Friday March 7th

Hi everyone,

For those that are interested, we're holding a discussion group on Friday 7th
March, at 3.30pm. The meeting will be held in Parramatta at the Urban
Research Centre, UWS: 34 Charles Street, Parramatta (adjacent to the ferry
wharf; take the lift to the 6th floor; 10 mins walk from Parramatta rail).

Davis, M., 2006. 'Fear and money in Dubai', New
Left Review, 41, 47-68.
Please contact us for a copy of the reading.

Please forward this onto anyone who might like to be connected to such a group.

We hope to see you there!

Next Reading Group: Friday November 23rd

Hi Everyone,

The next reading group is on 23rd November @USyd, Madsen Conference Room.

The proposed reading is :

Smith, S. 2007 ," Owner-occupation: at home with a hybrid of money and materials" , Environmental planning A , advanced online publication

Discussant: Adrian Emilsen ( Macq.)

This will be the last reading group for 2007.

"Emergent Geographies" : GSNSW postgraduate conference

The Geographical Society of NSW is hosting 'Emergent Geographies', a geography postgraduate student conference, on Thursday 15th November 2007, as theUniversity of NSW. This one-day conference will showcase current geographicalresearch from emergent scholars - the geography postgraduate community - anddiscuss emerging themes and agendas for the discipline. Papers at this conference will present some of the most recent empirical research projects being undertaken in various sub-fields of geographic enquiry and will be of interest to professional geographers and academics.For those interested in attending, the draftprogram and registration form for the conference are available from the Society website: http://www.gsnsw.org.au

October 25th: "Transcultural ‘home’" - Seminar by Dr Divvia P.Tolia-Kelly

Transcultural ‘home’ - ‘Timeless’ Ecologies and PhilosophiesThe Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, with support from theDepartment of Human Geography and the Division of Environmental LifeSciences,Macquarie University, invites you to a seminar by Dr Divvia P.Tolia-Kelly (Durham University, UK)Abstract: ‘Home’ has been theorised within the social sciencesthrough the lens of feminist accounts of the value of the domestic scenepolitically, socially, culturally and economically. These accounts haveproliferated in the disciplines of geography, anthropology, culturalstudies, law and sociology. Contemporary research on the cultural valuesof home has rested on notions of ‘being’ and ‘feeling’ human andat home in the space of ‘dwelling’ (Heidegger) or ‘habitus’(Bordieu). These are critical philosophical starting points intothinking about the role of ‘home’ in human consciousness, identitypractices and in socio-political economies and networks. However, theseare squarely based in a western canon. This seminar on transculturalvalues of ‘home’ attends to the need within international qualityresearch to think ‘home’ transculturally and internationally beyondthis framework of thinking. This is not to dismiss the cultural andphilosophical values of ‘home’ based on notions of ‘dwelling’and ‘habitus’ but to build and extend dialogues across to theAntipodes where Maori and Aboriginal cultural values offer differentstarting points, timescales and relationships between individuals andsociety. The starting point for this symposium will be the figuring of‘home’ in non-Western cultures (such as Aboriginal, Maori andInuit). ‘Home’ in these social groups and contexts isphilosophically embedded in different frameworks of time, heritage,territory and ‘dwelling’. Most importantly ‘social’ and‘posthuman’ accounts of human-land relations are critical torites, rituals and notions of social laws of land rights, human rights,appropriation and governance. The seminar will engage with the temporaland spatial evolution of 'home' through a truly interdisciplinaryapproach.Date & time: Thursday October 25th @ 3pm - 5pmVenue: Venue: C5C 498 Macquarie UniversityThis seminar is free but bookings are recommended.To reserve your place (and for directions), please contact:Dr Armen Gakavian - crsi@scmp.mq.edu.au, tel: 9850 9171ORDr Nicole Cook- ncook@els.mq.edu.au, tel: 9850 8385For further information and abstract, visit www.crsi.mq.edu.au

Next Reading Group: 12 October

The next reading group is on Friday 12th October, 3.30pm, @ USyd, MadsenConference Room.

The proposed reading is:Davison, A., 2006. 'Stuck in a Cul-de-Sac? Suburban History and UrbanSustainability in Australia', Urban Policy and Research, 24(2), 201-216.

Discussant: Nicole Cook (Macq.)
Please email us if you would like a copy of the paper:
Human Geography Reading Group Convenors
Therese Kenna (UNSW): t.kenna@student.unsw.edu.au
Adrian Emilisen (Macq): aemilsen@els.mq.edu.au
Sarah James (UWS): s.w.james@scholar.uws.edu.au

Katharyne Mitchell Seminar : 30th August 2007

Marseille's Not for Burning: Immigrant Cities and the Production of Peace

CCR Seminar Series 2007
Professor Katharyne Mitchell (Simpson Professor in the Public Humanities, Department of Geography, University of Washington, USA) is presenting a paper at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney.

Date: 30 August 2007
Event Details: 3:00pm start, Venue TBA.
Please RSVP to: a.ajiri@uws.edu.au
Convenor: Professor Kay Anderson

Emergent Geographies : GSNSW postgraduate conference

The Geographical Society of NSW is hosting 'Emergent Geographies', a Geography
postgraduate student conference (http://www.gsnsw.org.au). The conference is
to be held on Thursday 15th November 2007, at The University of NSW. Attached
to this email is a call for papers for the event. The conference is intended
to provide a forum for postgraduate students, at whatever stage of their
candidature, to present their research in a fairly relaxed and friendly
environment. It will also be an excellent opportunity to meet other postgrad
students and academics from various universities in NSW, and connect with the
broader geography community.

Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be submitted to Therese Kenna
(t.kenna@student.unsw.edu.au) by Friday 31st August 2007.