Annual Meeting 2012 0f the American Association of Geographers

At its 2012 Annual Meeting, the AAG will feature sessions on:

• GIScience, Cyberinfrastructure, and Social Media
• Contributions of Physical Geography to Sustainable Development
• Social Justice, Media, and Human Rights
• International Finance and Economics
• Geography and the Humanities
• The United Nations

Geography and the Humanities
As part of a broader emphasis on geography and the humanities, a special track of sessions will engage topics and methods at the crossroads of geography and the arts, including geographers working as artists or exploring artistic works, strategies, or institutions, and artists or writers who explore space, place, landscape, scale, GIS, cartography, or other aspects of geography. Organized sessions and papers should address geographic perspectives or technologies and their relationship to painting, dance, photography, new media, literature, or any other arts discipline or practice. Proposals examining arts or cultural institutions are of course also welcome.
The geography and humanities theme will include sessions featuring authors from the AAG’s two most recent books, published by Routledge: Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities, and GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place, as well as papers from all areas of geography and humanities scholarship.

Information:
http://www.aag.org/cs/news_detail?pressrelease.id=589