KENTUCKY 2016
The eighth meeting of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography will be hosted by the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, July 10-15, 2016. The meeting is being organized by Susan Roberts, Michael Samers, Andrew Wood, Matthew Zook, and Jamie Peck.
Applications for the Kentucky meeting are invited from recently appointed faculty, postdocs, and doctoral students. The closing date for applications is January 8, 2016.
Featured speakers

Gavin Bridge
Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
Durham University, UK
Neil M. Coe
Professor of Economic Geography and Head of Department
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Beverley Mullings
Associate Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
Queen’s University, Canada

Jane Pollard
Professor of Economic Geography
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
Newcastle University, UK
Sponsors and supporters
- Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
- Economic Geography/Clark University
- Economic Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
- Economic Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
- Sage Publications