Call for papers: "Theo Quant" Meetings 23-25 february 2011, Besançon, France

Call for papers: "Theo Quant" Meetings 23-25 february 2011, Besançon, France

"Theo Quant" Meetings take place in France every two years. They are
intended to be an intermediary between big symposia, where only completed
work is presented, and conferences dedicated to specific themes.

The "Theo Quant" Meetings aim to further methodological and theoretical
investigation in the field of spatial analysis, whether by confirmed
researchers or PhD students, in France and in other countries. One of
their main interests is to allow the exchange of points of view and ideas
between researchers of different generations, coming from different fields
and working in various areas.

The "Theo Quant" Meetings offer an opportunity to draw up a state of the
current doctoral research in the field of theoretical and quantitative
geography: the contributions of the PHD students and the young researchers
concern either the presentation of their problematics or the technical and
epistemological problems, to which the use of new tools gives rise.

The four main goals of the "Theo Quant" Meetings are:

- to present the results of completed research and to provide to young
researchers a forum for exchanging and discussing their current research,

- to propose communications of a high conceptual and methodological level,

- to incite the development of theoretical and conceptual reflections,

- to open up to presentations coming from non-geographers.