Program

SESSIONS

The Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe – Non-existent, Unrecognized, Forgotten and Lost Peoples and Geographical Objects

OPEN SESSION 1

– Belonging, inclusion

Geography and the Humanities I

Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process I

Urban Political Economy in Transition: Critical Perspectives on Urban Processes in a Polycrisis Era 

Nature-Based Solutions in Nordic Countries

Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity I

Nordic Peatlands: Perspectives of People, Science, and Restoration I

Nordic property spaces I

SESSIONS

Transformative adaptation in Africa’s fast-growing small towns

OPEN SESSION 2

Regional development, spatial changes

Geography and the Humanities II

Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process II

The Timeless and Restless Highlands I

Contested Energy Landscapes: Resourcification, Knowledge and Imaginaries in Nordic Energy Transitions

„Critical Geographies for an Inclusive Digital Transition“

Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity II

Nordic Peatlands: Perspectives of People, Science, and Restoration II

Nordic property spaces II

SESSIONS

Social reproduction and digitalization – levelling up or levelling down spatial inequalities?

Urban Matters – Journal keynote: Nurhan Abujidi

Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process III

The Timeless and Restless Highlands

Filmscreening and Q&A: ThORlI – A short film examining stakeholder perspectives on coastal development in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland.

Book Launch: A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies

Urban Lines and Informal-Formal Meshworks: friction zones at the intersection of formal and informal urban infrastructures and practices.

Restlessness, Resilience and Relocation: Community-Driven Retreat in a Changing Climate

SESSIONS

Geographies of Crisis: Youth Perspectives

Tick of the City: Migration, Labor, and the Architectures of Fulfillment

I Sub-theme: Carbon neutrality, sustainability, and digital future

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis I

Geographies of race and coloniality in a contemporary polycrisis

Homelessness, restless circulation, and the production of value and vulnerabilities

Between place and practice: Perspectives and understandings of, in, and through infrastructures I

OPEN SESSION 3

Platforms, urban development

Resistance against autocratization and authoritarianism

Urban geopolitics: Patterns, Shifts, and the Restless Nature of Cities

Session I: Book authors

Blueish Entanglements and transformations: unfolding the restless geographies of more-than-wet spaces I

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions I

Geographies of unruly natures I

SESSIONS

Restless ecologies: Vegetal flux in a world of change I

Who keeps transit moving? Agency, power and spatiotemporal dimensions of public transport work in the Global North

II Sub-theme: Statism in urban development

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis II

(Re)bordering the State: Multi-Level Governance and the Politics of Migration Management

OPEN SESSION 5 – Race, ethnichity, integration, policing

Between place and practice: Perspectives and understandings of, in, and through infrastructures II

OPEN SESSION 4 – Tourism, land, property

Geographies of death revisited in times of change and crisis: deathscapes, social change, politics and environment

The Challenge of Applying Post-Foundational Geographies

Session II: External presentations & discussion

Blueish Entanglements and transformations: unfolding the restless geographies of more-than-wet spaces II

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions II

Geographies of unruly natures II

SESSIONS

Restless ecologies: Vegetal flux in a world of change II

Book presentation: Second edition of a Routledge Handbook of Local and Regional Development

III Sub-theme: Social agencies and urban regeneration

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis III

Documentary: FIRE, WATER, EARTH, AIR – Climate Change in the Nordic Region Through Film

Teaching Geography and Geoinformatics in the Era of AI and Large Language Models

Labour geographies in the Nordic peripheries

Workshop: Trans-Inclusive Fieldwork Workshop: Guidance, Gaps, and New Pathways

Resilience for whom? Tourism, vulnerability, and adaptation in Nordic and global settings

Restless Knowledge – Geographical Thinking in Nordic Education.

Temporalities of Finance: Disruptions, Relocations, and Strategic Delay

SESSIONS

OPEN SESSION 6 – Rural transformation, environmental issues

Circular cities for sustainable transformation I

The green transition – taking stock and moving forward in a new geopolitical context I

OPEN SESSION 7 – Geopolitics, colonialism

Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique

Histories of geographic thought and practice in the Nordic countries

Climate futures: Anticipations, trends, spaces

People and Woods of the North; past, present and future

Impact of global land rush on local communities. Contestations over foreign land investments

Capital, Labor, and Supply Chains in Agro-industrial Crises I

SESSIONS

Can we educate transformative change-makers for better futures?

Circular cities for sustainable transformation II

Social and Cultural Geography – Journal keynote: Caroline Faria

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: The Reality of Place-Based Conservation in a Changed and Changing World

Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique II

Non-Economic Losses to Climate-Induced Events for Communities in the Arctic

Life on New Ground: Vegetation Succession and Soil Development on Emerging Nordic Landscapes

Capital, Labor, and Supply Chains in Agro-industrial Crises II

SESSIONS

The Geopolitics of Planetary Futures: Contested Time, (De)Growth, and Ecological Territorialization

OPEN SESSION 9 – Multiple and restless mobilities

The green transition – taking stock and moving forward in a new geopolitical context I I

Energy geographies books and special issues: Convening authors and editors to reflect on the evolving discipline I

Geographies of the Blue Economy: Justice, Restlessness, and Resilience I

Giving back, research impact, or the ‘third mission’? Exploring the institutional role of the geographer in interesting times

Transforming urban transport in unfavourable conditions

OPEN SESSION 8 – Ecology, conservation, green spaces

Who Prepares? Critical perspectives on civil preparedness

Geographies of knowledge and innovations in the restless era of emerging technologies I

Thinking with buildings: exploring the intersection of Architecture and Human Geography I

SESSIONS

(De)Valuing land: Speculation, Housing and Residents

Academic Knowledge Production and the Falling Rate of Use Values: Rethinking Academia in the context of Planetary Crises

Energy geographies books and special issues: Convening authors and editors to reflect on the evolving discipline II

Geographies of the Blue Economy: Justice, Restlessness, and Resilience II

Just transitions in a restless world: moving beyond technical decarbonization to address social justice issues in the climate transition

Spectacular to Skeletal, Clandestine to Everyday: Contemporary Modalities of Autoconstruction in African Cities

Geographies of knowledge and innovations in the restless era of emerging technologies II

Thinking with buildings: exploring the intersection of Architecture and Human Geography Ii