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Emerging Geographies
CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS:
Emerging Geographies: Mapping, Tracking, and Tracing
Conference Date: April 18, 2008
Deadline for submissions **has been extended** to February 20, 2008
Maps of worlds are often depicted as stories already told, already written. If we acknowledge these geographies as emerging and in process, how can we map, track, and trace these worlds as they become entangled with and produce various scales of time and space?

Instead of assuming the regions of Cold War geography, emerging geographies encourage scholarship that investigates how the world looks from various locations and “out of the way” places to understand geographies as formed and contingent. We are interested in how histories are lived in the present, how they shape our current worlds, and are alive within these worlds. Emerging geographies track the longue durée and uncover alternative and layered histories. This tracking requires an engagement with histories that pays attention to complex, situated entanglements and the significance of details. Emerging geographies map the active ways in which social landscapes are constructed and regions are made. They ask: how do geographies come into being?
We are looking for papers from advanced graduate students and posters from all graduate students that describe and analyze emerging geographies for a one-day graduate student conference at the Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz. The deadline for submissions has been extended to February 20, 2008. Distinguished scholars across the disciplines such as Donna Haraway, James Ferguson, and Donald Moore will comment upon the papers and convene discussions.
Examples of possible paper or poster topics include:
We encourage submissions that de-center human agency in the making of emergent geographies. Deadline for submissions **has been extended** to February 20, 2008. Please send a one-page abstract to: emerginggeographies@gmail.com, and indicate that your submission is for the Emerging Geographies Conference.