[Re]negotiating Space, Environment, and Society
Department of Geography, University of Peradeniya
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink afresh about our relations with space, environment and society and their mutual fortifications. The precarity and uncertainty that characterizes human life at glocal scales remind us to reimagine ‘milieu’; not simply to maintain or survive the ‘new normal’ but to gaze beyond and afar.
Depleting agricultural lands and eco-systems, changing climate, repeated ecological calamities (floods, landslides, coastal erosion, droughts, pandemics), regimented physical planning, territorialized politics, forced mobilities and migrations, aggrieved nationalisms, expedited urbanity and deprived rurality - all demand us to rethink our spatial and environmental relations, scientifically but critically along with new methodological insights. This is an ideal moment to discuss and debate the work we do as geographers and the lives of communities (bio-physical and social) involved in our work. As geographers,
Against this background, the Department of Geography, University of Peradeniya in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Association of Geographers, is organizing the 7th National Geography Conference on [Re]negotiating space, environment and society on the 17th and 18th of June, 2021. The conference is expected to initiate a dialogue among geographers, and researchers from related disciplines and to share the findings and insights of geographical research with the policy makers.
Abstracts of research presentations are solicited on the following themes relating to Sri Lanka focusing on theory, practice and policy: however, abstracts within the scope of any sub-discipline of Geography will be accommodated.
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Notification of acceptance | 15th March 2021 |
Conference date | 17th and 18th June 2021 |
General Guidelines
Abstract submission: Authors should submit their extended abstracts through electronic mail. All submissions will be duly acknowledged by the conference secretariat. Once an abstract is submitted, it will be subjected to a double-blind peer-reviewing process for evaluation. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings of NGC2021. The authors should follow the guidelines given below when submitting their extended abstracts.
Abstracts should be e-mailed to ngc2021@arts.pdn.ac.lk as an attachment on or before 15thup> January 2021. Please note that all communications will be carried out through e-mail.
Abstract Review: acceptance or rejection of reviewed extended abstracts will be under the purview of the editorial committee of the conference.
Presentations: Authors of all accepted extended abstracts should make their presentations at the conference in the English medium. Fifteen minutes will be allocated for each oral presentation, which will be followed by a 10-minute discussion time.
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Congress Secretariat
NGC-2021
Department of Geography
University of Peradeniya
Peradeniya, 20400, Sri Lanka
Tel : +94 (0)81 239 2672 / +94 (0)77 570 7067
Fax : +94 (0)81 239 2672
E-mail: ngc2021@arts.pdn.ac.lk
Conference Chair
Prof. Tilak Bandara
Department of Geography University of Peradeniya
twmtilak@pdn.ac.lk
+94 71 4460893