Program

18:00 – 20:00 Welcome reception at Saga (on Campus)
8:50 – 9:00 Opening
 9:00-10:00 Keynote 1 – Andri Snær Magnason
10:00-10:30 – Coffee
10:30-12:10

SESSIONS

Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process I

Geography and the Humanities I

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

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

Nordic property spaces I

Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity I

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

Nature-Based Solutions in Nordic Countries

OPEN SESSION 1

– Belonging, inclusion

12:10-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-14:00 Keynote 2 – Carina Listerborn
14:00-14:20 – Break
14:20-15:40

SESSIONS

Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process II

Geography and the Humanities II

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

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

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

Nordic property spaces II

Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity II

The Timeless and Restless Highlands I

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

Transformative adaptation in Africa’s fast-growing small towns

„Critical Geographies for an Inclusive Digital Transition“

OPEN SESSION 2

Regional development, spatial changes

15:40-16:10 – Coffee
16:10 – 17:10

SESSIONS

Urban Matters – Journal keynote: Nurhan Abujidi

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

Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process III

The Timeless and Restless Highlands

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

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

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

17:30 Nordic house
  8:30-10:10

SESSIONS

 

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

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis I

 

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions I

 

Session I: Book authors

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

 

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

 

Geographies of unruly natures I

 

Geographies of race and coloniality in a contemporary polycrisis

 

Geographies of Crisis: Youth Perspectives

 

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

 

Resistance against autocratization and authoritarianism

 

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

 

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

 

OPEN SESSION 3

Platforms, digital gegraphies

10:00-10:30 – Coffee
10:30 – 12:10

SESSIONS

 

II Sub-theme: Statism in urban development

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis II

 

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions II

 

Session II: External presentations & discussion

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

 

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

 

Restless ecologies: Vegetal flux in a world of change I

 

Geographies of unruly natures II

 

The Challenge of Applying Post-Foundational Geographies I

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

OPEN SESSION 4 – Tourism, land, property

 

OPEN SESSION 5 – Race, ethnichity, integration, policing

12:10-13:00 – Lunch
13:00-14:00Keynote 3 – Noora Pyyry
14:00-14:20 – Break
14:20-15:20Keynote 4 – C. Patrick Heidkamp
15:20-16:10 – Coffee
16:10-17:30

SESSIONS

 

III Sub-theme: Social agencies and urban regeneration

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis III

 

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions III

 

The Challenge of Applying Post-Foundational Geographies II

 

Restless ecologies: Vegetal flux in a world of change II

 

Labour geographies in the Nordic peripheries

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 8:30-9:50

SESSIONS

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

Circular cities for sustainable transformation I

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

Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique

Climate futures: Anticipations, trends, spaces

Histories of geographic thought and practice in the Nordic countries

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

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

OPEN SESSION 6 – Planning, environment, justice

OPEN SESSION 7 – Geopolitics, regionalism

9:50 – 10:10 – Coffee
10:10-11:10

SESSIONS

Social and Cultural Geography – Journal keynote: Caroline Faria

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

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

Can we educate transformative change-makers for better futures?

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

Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique II

Circular cities for sustainable transformation II

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote 5: Alexander Prishchepov
12:30 – 13:20 – Lunch
13:20 – 15:00

SESSIONS

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

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

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

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

Who Prepares? Critical perspectives on civil preparedness

Transforming urban transport in unfavourable conditions

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

OPEN SESSION 8 – Ecology, conservation, green spaces

OPEN SESSION 9 – Multiple and restless mobilities

15:00 – 15:20 – Coffee
15:20 – 17:00

SESSIONS

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

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

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

(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

19:00 Dinner