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. We will host a reception at 18:30 BST on 30 Aug at RGS-IBG Lowther Room – everyone working in urban geography (in its broadest definition) is welcome!
Moreover, our AGM will be held online on 8 Sep 2023 at 13:00 BST. Please email Basak Tanulku (UGRG Secretary; tanulkub@gmail.com) to register, with Zoom details to follow nearer the time.
All times in BST:
30 Aug
– Comparative moments in urban research: (1) 09:00, Sir Alexander Fleming Building 119; (2) 11:10, RGS-IBG Drayson Rm [hybrid]
– Theorising (with) East Asian urban geographies: (1) 09:00, RGS-IBG Sunley Rm [hybrid]; (2) 11:10, Skempton Building 164
– Off-grid Cities: Infrastructure tensions between sustainability and (in)justice: 14:10, Sir Alexander Fleming Building 122
– Experiencing environmental gentrification: 14:10, Electrical Engineering Building 403B
– Author meets critics: Creighton Connolly’s ‘Political Ecologies of Landscape’: 16:20 Sir Alexander Fleming Building 122
31 Aug
– Artificial intelligences and transformations to more sustainable urban futures: 11:10, Sir Alexander Fleming Building 122
– ‘Affordable’ housing production, finance and the state: (1) 14:10, Skempton Building 060B; (2) 16:20, Skempton Building 060B
1 Sep
– Emerging geographies of non-dominant inhabitations: (1) 11:10, RGS-IBG Council Rm [hybrid]; (2) 14:10, Sir Alexander Fleming Building 121
– Informational peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age: (1) 14:10, Skempton Building 164; (2) 16:20, Skempton Building 164
For the complete conference programme, please visit https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/programme/.
Best regards,
Calvin Chung
UGRG Events and Conference Officer