Call For Papers: Annual Meeting of American Geographers 2013 (Los Angeles) Relational Geographies of Global Change: Financial Geographies of Emerging Markets Whilst the USA and Western Europe are in crisis investment alternatives are once again re-emerging in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Against this backdrop financial circuits are increasingly directed towards emerging markets,... Continue Reading →

Tim Jarvis, explorer and environmental scientist Friday 1 June 2012, 5.30-7.30pm Tim Jarvis AM, the renowned polar explorer and environmental scientist, will be giving a talk to the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s Singapore branch on 1 June 2012. Tim combines a love of adventure with a passion for environmental issues through his work as... Continue Reading →

The 6th Summer Institute in Economic Geography will take place in Zurich, July 1-7, 2012.  The Summer Institute is open to early-career researchers in economic geography, broadly defined (doctoral students at or beyond the fieldwork stage; postdoctoral researchers in universities, think tanks and research institutes; and lecturers or tenure-track faculty within the first three years... Continue Reading →

Call for Papers AAG Annual Meeting, New York City, 24-28 February 2012 The Rise of the BRICS Knowledge Intensive Service Economy Organisers: Andrew Jones, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Patrik Strom, University of Gothenburg, Sweden James Faulconbridge, University of Lancaster, UK Jon Beaverstock, University of Nottingham, UK Debates about the rise of the BRICs economies... Continue Reading →

After Markets: Researching Hybrid Arrangements Friday, April 23th, 2010 Oxford Said Business School Hosted by: Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) This workshop will feature talks by scholars working in the social studies of science and technology and political and economic sociology. The principal aim of the workshop is to foster an exchange between different approaches developed in these... Continue Reading →

Call for Papers - Deadline 5th March 2010 GaWC Young Researchers and Postgraduate Workshop: 'Cities and the Creative Economy' 28th April, 2010, Loughborough University, UK The Globalization and World City Research Centre (GaWC), based in the Geography Department at Loughborough University is hosting a workshop for young researchers and postgraduates on the creative economy and... Continue Reading →

Last call: The deadline for applications for the Summer Institute in Economic Geography, scheduled for Vancouver, June 27-July 2, is January 31. Further details and the application form can be found at http://www.econgeog.net/ The summer institute is open to PhD students, postdocs and recently appointed faculty in economic geography, broadly defined. Applicants should assume that... Continue Reading →

I will be giving a talk at the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, on the 26th of February (Thursday) 2009. Seminar Venue: Room 222, Hui Oi Chow Science Building. Time: 4.15pm-5.15pm. All are welcome. Title: Differentiated Markets: Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing as Financial Centres Abstract: Much of the early research on global... Continue Reading →