Annual Symposia
2009 Queen Mary, University of London
6th-7th May
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- Introduction (PDF, 125K)
Postgraduate Symposium
Wednesday 6th May
- Brief report (PDF, 18KB)
Session One: Economic geographies of environmental change
| Alexia Rogers-Wright, University of Hull. | Adaptation to floods: Sustainability through flexibility, (PDF 860KB). |
| Carl Lewis, University of Hull. | The New ecology of risk: flood risk mitigation and economic development on the Humber Estuary, (PDF, 1169KB). |
Session Two: Economic geographies of post-socialist transition
| Adam Novak, University of Nottingham. | East-East aid in the transformation of the post-socialist countries, (PDF, 430KB). |
| Helen Lowther, Newcastle University. | Polish Migration to the NorthEast of England: Social capital and integration, (PDF, 60KB). |
| Piotr Niewiadomski, Manchester University. | Different forms of expansion of international hotel groups and the processes of regional development in Central and Eastern Europe, (PDF, 480KB). |
Session Three: Economic geographies of work and finance
| Yajing Li, Queen Mary, University of London. | A tale of two cities: London and Beijing. A Chinese bank in the City of London, (PDF, 30KB). |
| Rachel Mulhall, Birmingham University. | Organizational resilience and adaptation in a time of climatic and financial stress, (PDF, 57KB). |
| Sejeong Ha, LSE. | Residential tenure and labour market outcomes, (PDF, 3849KB). |
Annual Symposium
Reflections on the Spaces of Economy and Society Twenty Years after the Collapse of State Socialism
Thursday 7th May
| Judit Timár, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Adrian Smith, Queen Mary, University of London. | Introduction: Spaces of postsocialism twenty years on, (PDF, 280KB). |
| John Pickles, University of North Carolina. | The spirit of postsocialism: common spaces and the production of diversity, (PDF, 38KB). |
| Simon Reid-Henry, Queen Mary, University of London. | Post-Soviet Socialism: twenty years of experimentation in Cuba. |
| Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Birmingham. | Entangled boundaries, scales and trajectories of change: post-communist energy reforms in critical perspective, (PDF, 895KB). |
| Vlad Mykhnenko and Adam Swain, University of Nottingham. | Facing the global economic crisis: Ukraine’s uneven development and regional trajectories, 1990-2009, (PDF, 1050KB). |
| John Round, University of Birmingham. | The social costs of 'transition’: Everyday life in post Soviet Russia and Ukraine, (PDF, 355KB).. |
| Alison Stenning, University of Newcastle. | We are all post-socialist now! The UK economy and the transformation of east central Europe, (PDF, 726KB). |