Dear all,
Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) is thrilled to launch a webinar series on “Global Urban Geographies”!…
UGRG Sponsored Sessions at the RGSIBG Annual Conference 2023
Dear all,
UGRG is excited to announce a great lineup of our sponsored sessions at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference, which will take place from 29 Aug to 1 Sep 2023.…
THE UGRG AGM
Friday 22 September, 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm BST. Virtual
Dear all,
We will be holding our AGM online on Friday, 22 September, 1.00 p.m.…
UGRG Signature Panel: Creighton Connolly’s Political Ecologies of Landscape
2023 RGS Annual Conference
August 30 18:20 – 20:00 Imperial In-person 2 followed by a Reception August 30 20:30 – 22:00 RGS-IBG Meeting Room 4
(The date and time is subject to change, see the link for updates https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/programme/…
Cities of Hope Event in November
‘Cities of Hope’ Programme Summary
November 18th – Day 1
Welcome and introductions, 9.45am – 10am (GMT) Dr Jennie Middleton (University of Oxford), Chair of the Urban Geography Research Group
Session 1, 10am – 11.30am (GMT): Housing and the Indian Metropolis: Reflections on the Possibilities of Public Practice
Keynotes: Dr Gautam Bhan (Indian Institute for Human Settlements) in conversation with Swastik Harish (independent housing researcher)
Session 2, 4pm – 5.30pm (GMT): Survivability and Hope on one of London’s newest Gentrification Frontiers
Keynotes: Professor Loretta Lees (University of Leicester) in conversation with Beverley Robinson (former Chair of the Aylesbury Leaseholder’s Group)
November 19th – Day 2
Session 3, 10am – 11.30am (GMT): The false symmetry of research-activism.…
Session: Sustainable transformation through the lens of rural-urban divide and synergies
Nordic Geographers Meeting 2022, 7-10 February Joensuu, Finland.
Dear all,
For those of you who study different aspects of sustainable transformation through the lens of rural-urban divide and synergies, please find below our invitation to session 14 of the conference Nordic Geographers Meeting 2022, scheduled to take place 7th -10th of February in Joensuu, Finland.…
RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group AGM 2021 – Get involved!
Dear urban geographers,
The newly revived Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) of the RGS-IBG will be holding its AGM virtually on 9th Sept 2021 at 2 pm BST.…
RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group’s 2021 Annual Conference 18-19 November
“Cities of Hope”
Dear all,
We are writing to invite you to the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group’s 2021 Annual Conference.…