New Zealand Geographical Society

Conference 2012

‘Connecting Landscapes’

Welcome

The Manawatu Branch of the New Zealand Geographical Society has the pleasure of inviting geographers to the biennial conference of the Society in December 2012. In a break from tradition the conference this year will be held for the first time at Napier’s War Memorial Conference Centre. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Connecting Landscapes’ and we encourage geographers of all stripes to participate in Napier.

The conference is open to geographers and those working in allied fields anywhere in the world, and we especially encourage graduate students as well as established faculty to attend and present their work.

Dates and Venue

3-6 December 2012

Napier War Memorial Conference Centre, Napier

Further information about Napier and Hawkes Bay can be found here.

Conference Programme

A copy of the Conference Handbook (including the final programme) can be downloaded here.

The book of abstracts can be downloaded here

Marae Workshop December 1-3

Indigenous Geography group invites NZGS Conference members and their whanau to join them at  Matahiwi Marae, Clive.

The workshop will include the participation of people involved in Treaty claims in the area and other guest speakers,

visiting places of significance around the marae, and plenty of time for discussions about “doing Indigenous geographies”,

including cross-cultural and/or decolonising approaches.

More information for this workshop can be found on via the Conference registration site

or by contacting either This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Conference Registration

Online registration for the NZGS 2012 is now open

Keynote Addresses

Professor Hugh Campbell (Otago) Food from Somewhere in the Landscape of Anywhere: Elaborating the Greening Trajectory in NZ Agriculture

Professor Phil O'Neill (University of Western Sydney) From Adam Smith to structured investment vehicles: why infrastructure consistently fails to perform as a public good

David Johnston (GNS) Developing an effective community response to the next "Great East Coast Subduction Zone Earthquake and Tsunami"

Juliana Mansvelt (Massey) Sparky geographies: finding the engaging in the mundane?

Forgotten Highways, Tongariro Crossing Field Trip

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Research Associate, VUW) is organising a post conference fieldtrip to run between the 7th and 9th December. Details about this fieldtrip can be downloaded here.

If you have any questions conference, please contact either Professor Mike Roche ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Dr Matthew Henry ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

We look forward to welcoming you in Napier in December 2012.

The NZGS2012 Organizing Committee

Manawatu Branch, New Zealand Geographical Society

Palmerston North

New Zealand