[GeoIT.org] DEADLINE EXTENSION: PLATIAL'19 Symposium on Platial Information Science

Mo Jul 22 15:19:10 CEST 2019

Dear all,

Following several requests, we have decided to extend the deadline to submit short papers to the PLATIAL'19 Symposium on platial information science by 10 days until Monday, 29 July.

Please find further information on the symposium online: http://platial19.platialscience.net/

If you are interested in the topic "Place in GIScience", which is motivated by keynotes from Thora Tenbrink and Nigel Thrift, and would like to present a contribution in a stimulating setting, we cordially invite you to take this opportunity to submit a paper!

Best wishes,
René Westerholt and Franz-Benjamin Mocnik

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Betreff:        CFP: PLATIAL'19 Symposium on Platial Information Science
Datum:  Mon, 6 May 2019 12:01:49 +0100
Von:    Rene Westerholt <Rene.Westerholt at warwick.ac.uk><mailto:Rene.Westerholt at warwick.ac.uk>
An:     GISCRG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:GISCRG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Kopie (CC):     Franz-Benjamin Mocnik <mocnik at uni-heidelberg.de><mailto:mocnik at uni-heidelberg.de>

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to the second International PLATIAL'19 Symposium, which will take place on 5–6 September 2019 at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK! The event aims to put forward the notion of place in geographical information science, which will be motivated by keynotes delivered by Thora Tenbrink (Bangor University, UK) and Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick, UK). We accept short paper submissions, which will be published with separate DOIs online.

We are looking forward to your submissions, and to fruitful discussions in September! PLATIAL can also be ideally combined with the COSIT conference taking place the following week!

Best wishes,
René Westerholt and Franz-Benjamin Mocnik

PS: Please spread the word to your personal networks and forward this call to anyone for whom it might be interesting and relevant.

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*** PLATIAL'19 Symposium ***

This year's motto: Interdisciplinary perspectives on place

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 5–6 September 2019
http://platial19.platialscience.net

People “live” and constitute places every day through recurrent practices and experience. Our everyday lives, however, are complex, and so are places. In contrast to abstract space, the way people experience places includes a range of aspects like physical setting, meaning, and emotional attachment. This inherent complexity requires researchers to investigate the concept of place from a variety of viewpoints. The formal representation of place–a major goal in GIScience related to place–is no exception and can only be successfully addressed if we consider geographical, psychological, anthropological, sociological, cognitive, and other perspectives.

So far, however, interdisciplinary cooperation on the topic of place has been rare. Geographers have developed a rich conceptual understanding of holistic places, psychologists and cognitive scientists deal with the more individual aspects of perception and conceptualisation, and GIScience scholars are focussing on formalising and conceptualising place-based GIS largely capitalising on a wealth of viewpoints. Research on place has not yet been carried out on a larger scale beyond the boundaries of those different domains. In view of the complexity described above, interdisciplinary approaches are desirable and will presumably lead to a better understanding of the concept of place than to consider it monodisciplinarily.

We hope to bring together place-based researchers from different disciplines to discuss the current state of platial research. In particular, we welcome submissions of papers on the following topics:

* Which approaches of place representation exist in various disciplines?
* How can existing theoretical approaches of platial representation from different disciplines be integrated towards a unified notion of place?
* How can we move forward the integration of platial information with GIS?
* What might be a suitable strategy for addressing the subjectivity inherent to platial information?
* What are the roles of uncertainty and fuzziness in a place-based theory of geographical information?
* In which ways can places be visualised, in particular at multiple scales?
* Which novel perspectives (e.g., with respect to academic progress, practical applications, methodological frameworks) does place-based analysis provide?
* How can we demonstrate the practical usefulness of place-based information by means of examples and in comparison to spatial information?
* (Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of this symposium.)

Apart from discussing the above topics, it is our particular goal to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue involving geographers, social scientists, computer scientists, and other cognate scholars.

KEYNOTE TALKS

Thora Tenbrink (Bangor University, UK)
Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick, UK)

SYMPOSIUM CONVENORS

René Westerholt
CIM, University of Warwick (rene.westerholt at warwick.ac.uk<mailto:rene.westerholt at warwick.ac.uk>)

Franz-Benjamin Mocnik
Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University (mocnik at uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:mocnik at uni-heidelberg.de>)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Thomas Blaschke (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Dirk Burghardt (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
Alexis Comber (University of Leeds, UK)
Clare Davies (University of Winchester, UK)
Ekatarina Egorova (Massey University, New Zealand)
Sara Irina Fabrikant (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Michael F. Goodchild (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California Santa Barbara, US)
Karen Kemp (University of Southern California Dornsife, US)
Grant McKenzie (McGill University, Canada)
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Alenka Poplin (Iowa State University, US)
Simon Scheider (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Kathleen Stewart (University of Maryland, US)
Thora Tenbrink (Bangor University, UK)
Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick, UK)
Maria Vasardani (RMIT University, Australia)
René Westerholt (University of Warwick, UK)
Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)

IMPORTANT DATES

3 May 2019              Call for short papers opens
29 July 2019            Submission deadline for short papers
5–6 September 2019      PLATIAL'19 Symposium

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

We are seeking high-quality contributions on the topics proposed. Therefore, we want your work to be visible and sustainably citable long-term after the symposium. All short paper contributions will be published online with individual DOIs as *ZENODO Symposium Proceedings*, an outlet funded by the European Commission to support publication of high-quality proceedings. Your papers should be prepared in adherence to the guidelines found in the Overleaf template (http://bit.ly/2XUOLv6). The anticipated length of the paper is 7–9 pages maximum length, including abstract, ?gures, and references. Submission of your paper (i.e. the PDF) should be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial19. We will only approach you upon paper acceptance to ask for submission of all finalized files (including the compiled PDF, LaTeX source files, figures). All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee. Therefore, please prepare your documents in anonymized form (see instructions given in the template).

HOW TO REGISTER

We offer three admission fee rates (covering also lunches, coffee breaks and the symposium dinner) depending on your status:

Full payers                170 GBP
PhD students               100 GBP
Bachelor/Master students    80 GBP

We will provide a receipt that you can use for your reimbursement. Please note that the number of attendees is limited, and your participation depends on the availability of places. The registration procedure is outlined on the symposium homepage: http://platial19.platialscience.net/participation. Please note: We are able to offer affordable on-campus
accommodation close to all symposium venues (55 GBP/night; subject to availability).

Do not hesitate to post your questions to platial19 at platialscience.net<mailto:platial19 at platialscience.net>.

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Dr René Westerholt FRGS
[Assistant Professor]
[Course Director: MSc Urban Analytics and Visualisation]

University of Warwick
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Room B.027
Coventry CV4 7AL

[Tel] +44 (0)2476 528572
[I-Net] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/rene-westerholt/
[Interactive map] Office location<http://campus-cms.warwick.ac.uk/share/a88c5ff51275ec51ece543b601d32888>
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