Conferences and workshops
Geography at Sheffield hosts or co-hosts many conferences and workshops.
Placed in the centre of the country, with some of the most modern venues and accommodation, Sheffield is an ideal location for conferences.
Recent events:
Postcolonial Sexualities: Emerging Solidarities
Thursday 8 November 2012
This workshop brought together academics and postgraduate students, representatives of NGOs and aid agencies to explore emerging transnational sexuality politics. Points of departure included western interventions in non-western and post-colonial settings through activist organisations, NGOs and governmental aid strategies.
Decentring Knowledge: geographical perspectives on keywords
Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 September 2012
Decentring Knowledge details
A workshop held jointly by the Departments of Geography at The University of Sheffield and The National University of Singapore, its broad aim is a critical interrogation of, and sustained attempt to work beyond, the latent EuroAmericanism and geographical situatedness of academic knowledge production within contemporary Human Geography.