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