The MAD-AAG Board together with the Department of Geography & Environmental Planning, Towson University, look forward to welcoming students, colleagues, and members of the wider community to this year's MAD-AAG Annual Conference (Halloween Weekend, Oct. 30-Nov. 1).
This year's conference includes on October 31 a morning panel on Geographic Education, a midday panel discussion on international initiatives, "Regions aren't only 'Regional': a Global Roundtable," and an afternoon panel targeted for students, "Careers in Geography." The day will include a wide range of paper presentations by students, faculty, and professionals on topics ranging the gamut from religion to climate change, web mapping to urban development, and from geopolitics to "place."
Presentation abstracts are still being accepted (until October 20). Send abstracts to JTasch@towson.edu.
For participants in need of lodging, the Towson Marriott has a block of rooms reserved for the conference until October 15. Please call (410) 324-8100 and use "MAD-AAG" for the conference rate.
For additional conference details and registration information:
If you are a student (undergraduate or graduate), consider submitting your paper directly:
1. The competition is open to all MAD-Regional students (ugrad and grad).
2. Papers will be judged on their overall quality, creativity and contribution to furthering geography (broadly conceived). We particularly encourage work that is innovative, creative, informed and demonstrates familiarity with the appropriate scholarly literature.
3. Papers should be single-authored, 1.5 line spaced, 12-point font, and no more than 20 pages in length (i.e., a maximum of 10,000), excluding references, tables, maps and figures, and a required abstract.
4. In the electronic submission, authors should indicate their name, institution, and level of study (Ugrad, MA/MS, PhD).
5. To be considered for this award, students must submit electronic copies of their paper by October 20th, 2015 to the chair of MAD-AAG, Tracy Edwards, at TEdwards@frostburg.edu
All students who submit a paper will receive a one-year free membership to MAD.
