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

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

„Critical Geographies for an Inclusive Digital Transition“

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 II

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

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.

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

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis I

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions I

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

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

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

OPEN SESSION 3

– Platforms, digital gegraphies

10:00-10:30 – Coffee
10:30 – 12:10

SESSIONS

Emergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis II

Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions II

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 I

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

OPEN SESSION 4 – Tourism, land, property

OPEN SESSION 5 – Race, ethnichity, integration, policing

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

SESSIONS

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

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

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

Book Launch: A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies

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

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

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

19:00 Dinner