Program
- Monday June 22
- Tuesday June 23
- Wednesday June 24
- Thursday June 25
| 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 |
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Geography and the Humanities I |
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Nordic Peatlands: Perspectives of People, Science, and Restoration I |
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Urban Political Economy in Transition: Critical Perspectives on Urban Processes in a Polycrisis Era I |
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Nordic property spaces I |
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Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity I |
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The Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe – Non-existent, Unrecognized, Forgotten and Lost Peoples and Geographical Objects I |
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Nature-Based Solutions in Nordic Countries |
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OPEN SESSION 1– Belonging, inclusion |
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| 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 |
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Geography and the Humanities II |
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Nordic Peatlands: Perspectives of People, Science, and Restoration II |
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Urban Political Economy in Transition: Critical Perspectives on Urban Processes in a Polycrisis Era II |
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Contested Energy Landscapes: Resourcification, Knowledge and Imaginaries in Nordic Energy Transitions |
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Nordic property spaces II |
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Geographies of solidarity and geographers in solidarity II |
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The Timeless and Restless Highlands I |
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The Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe – Non-existent, Unrecognized, Forgotten and Lost Peoples and Geographical Objects II |
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Transformative adaptation in Africa’s fast-growing small towns |
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„Critical Geographies for an Inclusive Digital Transition“ |
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OPEN SESSION 2Regional development, spatial changes |
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| 15:40-16:10 – Coffee | |
| 16:10 – 17:10 |
SESSIONS |
Urban Matters – Journal keynote: Nurhan Abujidi |
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Filmscreening and Q&A: ThORlI – A short film examining stakeholder perspectives on coastal development in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland. |
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Book Launch: A Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies |
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Knowledge-Making as a Spatializing Process III |
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The Timeless and Restless Highlands |
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Urban Lines and Informal-Formal Meshworks: friction zones at the intersection of formal and informal urban infrastructures and practices. |
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Social reproduction and digitalization – levelling up or levelling down spatial inequalities? |
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Restlessness, Resilience and Relocation: Community-Driven Retreat in a Changing Climate |
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| 17:30 | Nordic house |
| 8:30-10:10 | SESSIONS |
I Sub-theme: Carbon neutrality, sustainability, and digital futureEmergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis I | |
Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions I | |
Session I: Book authorsBlueish 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 3Platforms, digital gegraphies | |
| 10:00-10:30 – Coffee | |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | SESSIONS |
II Sub-theme: Statism in urban developmentEmergent Diversity in Urban Governance in an Era of Polycrisis II | |
Renewables in restless times: Uneven energy transitions II | |
Session II: External presentations & discussionBlueish 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 | |
| 13:00-14:00 | 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 |
III Sub-theme: Social agencies and urban regenerationEmergent 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 |
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Circular cities for sustainable transformation I |
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Capital, Labor, and Supply Chains in Agro-industrial Crises I |
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Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique |
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Climate futures: Anticipations, trends, spaces |
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Histories of geographic thought and practice in the Nordic countries |
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Impact of global land rush on local communities. Contestations over foreign land investments |
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People and Woods of the North; past, present and future |
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OPEN SESSION 6 – Planning, environment, justice |
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OPEN SESSION 7 – Geopolitics, regionalism |
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| 9:50 – 10:10 – Coffee | |
| 10:10-11:10 |
SESSIONS |
Social and Cultural Geography – Journal keynote: Caroline Faria |
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CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: The Reality of Place-Based Conservation in a Changed and Changing World |
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Non-Economic Losses to Climate-Induced Events for Communities in the Arctic |
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Life on New Ground: Vegetation Succession and Soil Development on Emerging Nordic Landscapes |
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Can we educate transformative change-makers for better futures? |
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Capital, Labor, and Supply Chains in Agro-industrial Crises II |
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Restless Methodologies for Urban Discovery and Critique II |
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Circular cities for sustainable transformation II |
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| 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 |
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Geographies of knowledge and innovations in the restless era of emerging technologies I |
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Thinking with buildings: exploring the intersection of Architecture and Human Geography I |
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Giving back, research impact, or the ‘third mission’? Exploring the institutional role of the geographer in interesting times |
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The green transition – taking stock and moving forward in a new geopolitical context I I |
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Energy geographies books and special issues: Convening authors and editors to reflect on the evolving discipline I |
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Who Prepares? Critical perspectives on civil preparedness |
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Transforming urban transport in unfavourable conditions |
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The Geopolitics of Planetary Futures: Contested Time, (De)Growth, and Ecological Territorialization |
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OPEN SESSION 8 – Ecology, conservation, green spaces |
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OPEN SESSION 9 – Multiple and restless mobilities |
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| 15:00 – 15:20 – Coffee | |
| 15:20 – 17:00 |
SESSIONS |
Geographies of the Blue Economy: Justice, Restlessness, and Resilience II |
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Geographies of knowledge and innovations in the restless era of emerging technologies II |
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Thinking with buildings: exploring the intersection of Architecture and Human Geography Ii |
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Energy geographies books and special issues: Convening authors and editors to reflect on the evolving discipline II |
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Just transitions in a restless world: moving beyond technical decarbonization to address social justice issues in the climate transition |
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Spectacular to Skeletal, Clandestine to Everyday: Contemporary Modalities of Autoconstruction in African Cities |
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(De)Valuing land: Speculation, Housing and Residents |
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Academic Knowledge Production and the Falling Rate of Use Values: Rethinking Academia in the context of Planetary Crises |
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| 19:00 | Dinner |