Sessions
Open sessions
The accepted session proposals have been grouped into several themes, listed below, and authors are invited to submit abstracts for these sessions.
To view session descriptions within a theme, click on the theme title.
You need to contact the session organizer before submitting your abstract via the website, to discuss how your paper idea fits the chosen session.
However, please note that all abstracts must be submitted via the conference website, before March 23rd.
If you do not find a session matching your theme, select ‘Open session’ to submit your proposal and secure your place if slots are available. These will be included in the programYou need
| Theme |
| Session titles |
 Changing environment |
| The Reality of Place-Based Conservation in a Changed and Changing World |
| Circular cities for sustainable transformation |
| Can we educate transformative change-makers for better futures? |
| Restless ecologies: Vegetal flux in a world of change |
| Geography and the Humanities |
| Nature-Based Solutions in Nordic Countries |
| Climate change and impacts |
| Who Prepares? Critical perspectives on civil preparedness |
| Non-Economic Losses to Climate-Induced Events for Communities in the Arctic |
| Lands of ice and fire: Understanding combustion environments in the North |
| Climate futures: Anticipations, trends, spaces |
| Resilience for whom? Tourism, vulnerability, and adaptation in Nordic and global settings |
| Economic geography, technology and financial spaces |
| Temporalities of Finance: Disruptions, Relocations, and Strategic Delay |
| AI, geopolitical competition and macro-geographic inequality |
| Geographies of knowledge and innovations in the restless era of emerging technologies |
| Capital, Labor, and Supply Chains in Agro-industrial Crises |
| „Critical Geographies for an Inclusive Digital Transition“ |
| Energy geographies |
| Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions |
| Contested Energy Landscapes: Resourcification, Knowledge and Imaginaries in Nordic Energy Transitions |
| Energy geographies books and special issues: Convening authors and editors to reflect on the evolving discipline |
| Geographical thinking and restless methodologies |
| The Challenge of Applying Post-Foundational Geographies |
| Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique |
| Giving back, research impact, or the ‘third mission’? Exploring the institutional role of the geographer in interesting times |
| Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process |
| From the South to the North, or the opposite? |
| Restless Knowledge – Geographical Thinking in Nordic Education |
| Histories of geographic thought and practice in the Nordic countries |
| Migration |
| (Re)bordering the State: Multi-Level Governance and the Politics of Migration Management |
| Restlessness, Resilience and Relocation: Community-Driven Retreat in a Changing Climate |
| Moving Infrastructure and designing spaces |
| Who keeps transit moving? Agency, power and spatiotemporal dimensions of public transport work in the Global North |
| Transforming urban transport in unfavourable conditions |
| Platforms in the City: Conceptualizing Place-Specificity, Infrastructure and Everyday Lives amidst the Homogenizing Logics of the Platform Economies |
| Urban Lines and Informal-Formal Meshworks: friction zones at the intersection of formal and informal urban infrastructures and practices. |
| Between place and practice: Perspectives and understandings of, in, and through infrastructures |
| Precarious geographies |
| Housing: negotiating habitability, precarity and profitability in times of crisis |
| Labour geographies in the Nordic peripheries |
| Geographies of death revisited in times of change and crisis: deathscapes, social change, politics and environment |
| Restless Political Geographies |
| The Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe – Non-existent, Unrecognized, Forgotten and Lost Peoples and Geographical Objects |
| Impact of global land rush on local communities. Contestations over foreign land investments |
| The green transition – taking stock and moving forward in a new geopolitical context |
| Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity |
| Violence against civilians in African conflicts: Heterogeneities, vulnerabilities, and responses |
| Marxist Geography in Times of Polycrisis |
| The Geopolitics of Planetary Futures: Contested Time, (De)Growth, and Ecological Territorialization |
| Resistance against autocratization and authoritarianism |
| Geographies of race and coloniality in a contemporary polycrisis |
| Restless Social Geography |
| Homelessness, restless circulation, and the production of value and vulnerabilities |
| The spatialities and temporalities of queer migration and asylum |
| Just transitions in a restless world: moving beyond technical decarbonization to address social justice issues in the climate transition |
| Social reproduction and digitalization – levelling up or levelling down spatial inequalities? |
| Geographies of Crisis: Youth Perspectives |
| Geographies of punishment in the Nordics and beyond |
| Teaching Geography |
| Teaching Geography and Geoinformatics in the Era of AI and Large Language Models |
| Time, change and landscape |
| The Timeless and Restless Highlands |
| Geographies of unruly natures |
| People and Woods of the North; past, present and future |
| Nordic Peatlands: Perspectives of People, Science, and Restoration |
| Life on New Ground: Vegetation Succession and Soil Development on Emerging Nordic Landscapes |
| Urban governance |
| Transformative adaptation in Africa’s fast-growing small towns |
| Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis |
| Urban Sound from Noise to Asset: Sonic Borderlands, Aesthetic Values and Spatial Disciplining in the City |
| Urban Housing |
| Proptech, Platforms and Housing: Geographical variegations in a Nordic context |
| (De)Valuing land: Speculation, Housing and Residents |
| Nordic property spaces |
| Thinking with buildings: exploring the intersection of Architecture and Human Geography |
| Urban shifts and political economy |
| Spectacular to Skeletal, Clandestine to Everyday: Contemporary Modalities of Autoconstruction in African Cities |
| Urban geopolitics: Patterns, Shifts, and the Restless Nature of Cities |
| Urban Political Economy in Transition: Critical Perspectives on Urban Processes in a Polycrisis Era |
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| Blueish Entanglements and transformations: unfolding the restless geographies of more-than-wet spaces |
| Geographies of the Blue Economy: Justice, Restlessness, and Resilience |