14th National Conference on Geographical Studies

The 14th National Conference on Geographical Studies serves as a venue for geographers, scholars and other practitioners to discuss a range of topics that are not only cutting-edge in the field of Geography but are also relevant to addressing the many social and environmental issues we face in an increasingly interconnected world. In NCGS 2019, we seek various and novel ways of tracing spatialities and entanglements, undertaking academic interventions and productive conversations using diverse theoretical and practical approaches. The NCGS 2019 serves as a node for conversation among geographers and scholars whose research attend to the processes, practices, discourses and materialities that set places and spaces in the Philippines and elsewhere into networked worlds.

The NCGS seeks individual or organized panel paper, video or poster presentations that contribute to discussing these questions:

• What forms or patterns of society-space relations and human-nonhuman entanglements are created through the networks that constitute place and spaces in the Philippines or elsewhere?
• What are the nascent methodologies and research tools that can assist us in understanding the complexities associated with the increasing interconnections of places, spaces, societies, economies, communities and ecologies?
• What contradictions do these new spatialities and entanglements create in various contexts?
• How are the challenges associated with these emergent arrangements and relations addressed using multiple and creative social actions?

We invite scholars and practitioners from all fields to share their research whether in paper, poster or video format. Research may be on, though not limited to, the following areas:

Geography & social justice
Geographies of peace
Social Movements and Space
Political Geography & Geopolitics
Territorial Conflicts and Re/Deterritorializations
Drone Studies and Development of UAVs
Subaltern & Postcolonial Geographies
Indigenous Geographies
Geographies of Education
Teaching Geography under the K-12 curriculum
Urbanization and Planning
Transport Geographies
Maritime and Marine Geographies
Island and Archipelagic Studies
Agriculture and Rural Development
Regional and Area Studies
Migration, Human Mobility & Diaspora
Population and environment
Geographies of Media
Spatial Humanities / Geohumanities
Visuality and Space
Theoretical Geographies
Postmodern Geographies
Place and Identity
Map Art and Radical Cartographies
Mapping and Counter-mapping
Participatory Mapping and GIS for a Spatially-enabled Society
GIScience and Remote Sensing
Historical Geography
LGBTQ and Gender
Religion and Space
Identity, Community and Human Terrains
Disaster Studies and Risk Reduction Strategies
Geography of Economies
Critical Development Geography
Nature and Society Relations
Environmental Geography
Food geographies
Biogeography
Geomorphology

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Paper Presentations
Abstracts may be submitted to the NCGS secretariat at ncgs.ph@gmail.com on or before August 30, 2019. Submissions must be in Word format and should include an abstract of 150-250 words, keywords (3-5) and the author/s name, affiliation, email address and bionote. Decisions on abstracts will be released on September 13, 2019. Presenters of accepted abstracts are encouraged to register by September 23, 2019 which is also the deadline for the early bird rate.

Panel Sessions
We are also calling for panel sessions that will feature critical social and theoretical issues relevant to geography. For panel session proposals, submissions must be in Word format and should include a 150-250 word description of the panel, keywords (3-5), and at least three panelists, with their names, institutional affiliation, email address and bionote. Decisions on panel sessions will be released on September 13, 2019. Participants of accepted panel proposals are enjoined to register by September 23, 2019 which is also the deadline for the early bird rate. Submit your panel proposals to the NCGS secretariat at ncgs.ph@gmail.com on or before August 30, 2019.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract and panel proposal submission - August 30, 2019
Announcement of accepted papers and panels - September 13, 2019
Deadline of confirmation to participate in the conference - September 23, 2019
Deadline of Early bird registration and payment - September 23, 2019

CONFERENCE FEES

LOCAL:
Early bird rate (until September 23, 2019) - ₱3,000.00
Graduate Students and PGS members rate - ₱3,000.00
Regular rate (September 24 – October 26, 2019) - ₱3,500.00
Late/On-site registration (After October 26, 2019) - ₱4,000.00 
OVERSEAS:
Early bird rate (until September 23, 2019) - US$60.00
Regular rate (September 24 to October 26, 2019) - US$70.00
Late/On-site registration (After October 26, 2019) - US$80.00

NCGS 2019 is jointly hosted by the UP Department of Geography and the Philippine Geographical Society.

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