Event Detail | April 15 – 19, 2008
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual MeetingBoston, Massachusetts
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting will be held 15-19 April 2008 in Boston, MA. The AAG annual Meeting attracts more than 6,500 geographers and related professionals from around the world. The meeting forum stimulates discussion about research, education, accomplishments, and developments in geography. The 2008 Annual Meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Marriott Copley Place and Westin Copley Place Hotel. Contributors from a variety of disciplines, especially those involved with the International Polar Year of 2007-2009, are welcome.
Additionally, the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers invites papers for a keynote session "Russia and the Circumpolar world: transforming nations, contested frontiers" to take place at the meeting.
In the recent years, arctic countries have quickly moved to re-evaluate the importance of their northern frontiers. Pivotal changes in the Arctic, coinciding with growing mutual interest and competition, require a new look at international issues of economic, political, environmental and social nature in the region. Some related activities have been started under the auspice of the International Polar Year. A keynote session "Russia and the Circumpolar world: transforming nations, contested frontiers" will focus on economic transformations in the circumpolar realm, and specifically, on the Russian frontier, as compared to other arctic countries. Papers are invited that analyze the place, role and potential of Russia as the past, present and future actor in the circumpolar region. Comparative studies of economic, political and social transformations in Russia and other northern countries are also welcome.
For more information about the meeting in general and abstract submission details, please go to:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/index.htm
For information about the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group, please go to:
http://www.rceeegeography.org
