We are now recruiting speakers for the SAHRG seminar series beginning in January 2020. Applications to speak are welcome on all subjects for a friendly, challenging, interdisciplinary debate.

Each monthly session will include 3 linked papers or approximately 20 minutes each, followed by round-table discussion and socialising.

Sessions are held on the third Tuesday of each month, 4pm-6pm, hosted by in the RDP training room. The series will run in January, February, March, May and June.

The overall theme for the series is ‘Spaces’, interpreted as literally or controversially as you like. Some potential connections might be:

Digital geographies and networks

Boundaries, borders, and liminality

Gendered spaces

Queer spaces

Bodies, embodiment, contact

Moving, changing, transforming spaces, mobility

Creative spaces

Silences and omissions

Ecology and natural spaces

Questions of scale and discontinuity

Outer space

Public and private spaces

Imagined or impossible spaces

 Please send proposals for an paper (a provisional title and 2-3 sentence summary of the topic) to Mike Rose: m.rose@surrey.ac.uk.

This may be a part of your ongoing research or something separate. Often presenters will use some ‘work in progress’, making the meetings a valuable place to try out ideas, practice presentations, and see new perspectives on your project.

We try to match papers with similar themes together, but if there are particular times of the year when you will not be available to present, please let us know.

We are also keen to recruit new members for our mailing list and organising committee. Please contact Mike to discuss or register your interest.