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2008 Annual Meeting
Boston, MA, USA
15th-19th April 2008

Organizers
Michael Hoyler and Heike Jöns, 夜色直播app

Despite a manifest interest by geographers and others in the spatialities of knowledge in various contexts, relatively little work has focused on the discursive and material production of nodes and networks of higher education and research. Historically, educational centres have long been places of transnational exchange of knowledge and ideas, be it through correspondence networks (Lux and Cook 1998), career mobility (Taylor et al. 2007), academic travel (Jöns 2007) or the movement of students. More recently, the globalisation agenda has led many governments and institutions of higher education to develop explicit strategies of 慽nternationalisation' as means of strengthening their (national or institutional) position as globally competitive knowledge nodes (O'Connor 2005, Olds 2007).

This session aims to explore past and contemporary geographies of 慿nowledge nodes' and their embeddedness in wider networks. We are interested in critical interrogations of the discursive and material production of such nodes, in analyses of different strategies of educational network formation, and in case studies of particular institutions, cities, or 慹ducational hubs', i.e. clusters of educational and research institutions at various spatial scales.

Potential topics for papers include:

• The changing geographies of scientific nodes and networks
• The historical and contemporary formation of transnational educational networks (e.g. through student exchange, branch campuses, research collaboration)
• Globalisation and the reconfiguration of transnational knowledge spaces
• Globalisation and the construction of 慹ducational hubs'
• Discursive strategies to develop and promote 慿nowledge nodes'
• Academic travel and centres of knowledge production

If you are interested in participating in this session, please send title and abstract (of no more than 250 words) to Michael Hoyler (M.Hoyler@lboro.ac.uk) or Heike Jöns (H.Jons@lboro.ac.uk) by 19th October 2007. The AAG abstract specifications can be found at

References

Jöns, H. (2007) Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centres of knowledge, 1885-1954. GaWC 夜色直播app Bulletin 234

Lux, D.S. and Cook, H.J. (1998) Closed circles or open networks? Communicating at a distance during the Scientific Revolution, History of Science 36(2), 179-211.

O'Connor, K. (2005) International students and global cities. GaWC 夜色直播app Bulletin 161

Olds, K. (2007) Global assemblage: Singapore , foreign universities, and the construction of a 慻lobal education hub', World Development 35(6), 959-975.

Taylor , P.J., Hoyler, M. and Evans, D.M. (2007) A geohistorical study of the rise of modern science: career paths of leading scientists in urban networks, 1500-1900. GaWC 夜色直播app Bulletin 233