Conference organisation

Organizing universities
Patronizing organisations
Scientific Committee
Academic background

Organizing universities

Patronizing organisations

Scientific Committee

List of all members here.

Local governance
The conference will be prepared by a bi-national board. On both sites, the conference organization will be managed by a local team:

• In Geneva: Pr. Frédéric Giraut, Dr. Philippe Brun, Sandrine Billeau, Olivia Och
• In Grenoble: Dr. Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Laëtitia Rouvière

Academic background

The University of Geneva, Switzerland
is one of the oldest of Switzerland, founded in the 1500s. It is now the second largest institution of higher education in the country. It contributes to the international influence of a city which in many respects is open to the world. Geography has been taught at the University of Geneva for more than a hundred years (the Department is now an integral part of the Faculty of social and economic sciences). The theoretical contribution of the Department of Geography is notable worldwide particularly in the areas of theory of territoriality, in semiology of territory and its representations, in urban and metropolitan dynamics, and above all in the area of border studies. The currently faculty members are also working on the specification of the linkages between political and cultural geography and in transnational territorial dynamics.

The University Joseph Fourier/ Grenoble 1, France
is one of the leading French science universities, holding a strong position within the regional French institutions. Whereas the first university in the alpine city of Grenoble dates back to 1339, the Science Faculty was founded in 1811. The Geography Institute is one of the oldest in France and celebrated its 100th birthday in 2007. It has a strong tradition of international relations, with well established networks of cooperation, which notably lead to the creation of geography departments both in Québec and Nigeria. Its journal, the Revue de Géographie Alpine, founded in 1913, is now known as the Journal of Alpine Research (rga.revues.org/) It is notable that it is the only French geography journal referenced by the ISI Web of Knowledge.
Grenoble is widely acknowledged to be the ground of the school of representation theories. Nevertheless, it also offers teaching and expertise in territorial development and geomatics. The research laboratory to which the geography institute is linked to is the largest social sciences research centre in France, with over 100 researchers and 190 Ph.D.s and Post Doctoral students: PACTE – Territoires.