Long live the status quo September 29, 2011
Posted by Mike Gulliver in post.Tags: AAG, carbon, innovation, status quo, travel
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About a week ago, I reluctantly had to tell the organisers of the sessions on Deaf Geographies at the AAG 2012 that I wouldn’t be able to attend. The cost of the conference (£200) plus the flights (£400 + tax) plus accommodation (++?) means that, although it’s a subject that I’m passionate about, I just couldn’t justify the expense.
Then I heard that it might be possible to sign up and then ‘find that I couldn’t go any more’ and send in my submission on film… so I signed up.
I’ve just heard that the AAG don’t allow pre-recorded presentations, and that there is no way to webcast into the proceedings.
So, having paid my sign-up, I now have to work out whether to lose some of that, and revert to the original plan, or whether to try and get there anyway. (more…)
Upon my return April 21, 2011
Posted by Mike Gulliver in Musings.Tags: AAG, Deaf space, IBG-RGS, numbers, Seattle
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Phew!
Time marches on… nearly a month after my past post, I’m back from the US where the first ever two-session treatment of DEAF space took pride of place at the American Association of Geographers conference.
… OK, not ‘pride of place’… maybe somewhere in the back of Thursday morning in the middle of the conference… but it was certainly the first ever big placement for DEAF space issues.
There’s a blog in the offing which will be shared here as soon as it’s set up, created by the people who contributed, as a way of bringing all the research on that subject together. And a further conference session on the same subject at the IBG-RGS in London in August/September… although I doubt the burritos at lunchtime will be quite as good.
In the meantime, it’s heartening to know that we are more than 1 or 2… and that we might be as many as a dozen worldwide looking into DEAF space areas…
Hoorah!
