MANCHESTER, MAY 15TH 'ECONOMY, NATURE, SPACE'

MANCHESTER, MAY 15TH 'ECONOMY, NATURE, SPACE'

The full programme is now available for the RGS-IBG Economic
Geography Research Group Annual Symposium on Thursday May 15th. See
http://www.egrg.org.uk/symposium2008.html

Highlights include:

Professor Richard Walker, University of California-Berkeley
--The Chinese Road to Capitalism--

Dr Marcus Power, University of Durham
--New African Choices? The economics and geopolitics of Chinese
engagement with African development--

Dr Daniel Buck, University of Oxford
--The Ecology Question--

Professor Diana Liverman, University of Oxford
--Offsets in the carbon economy--

Professor David Gibbs, University of Hull
--Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography--

Professor Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester
--Impossible/Undesirable Sustainability and the post-political condition--

The event is open to all. Please circulate widely. To help us plan
numbers, pls register by sending a simple e-mail to Jason Beery
(jason.beery@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk). We should note that the
EGRG has introduced a registration fee of £25 for the Annual
Symposium, payable by those who draw a salary. This can be paid in
advance (by mailing a cheque, payable to EGRG, to the organisers at
the address below) or in person on the 15th.

ON WEDNESDAY 14TH, the EGRG will be holding its annual
Post-Graduate Symposium. We now have an excellent line up of
post-graduate papers (details to be posted on the EGRG website
shortly). This is also an open event - for which there is no charge
- and we look forward to welcoming you. If you intend to come for both
the 14th and 15th, let us know if you would like to receive
information on nearby accommodation.

Gavin Bridge and Jason Beery

School of Environment and Development

University of Manchester

Manchester

M13 9PL