Saturday, 26 June 2021

IGU Commission Excellenc Award 2020

 


The IGU Commissions Excellence Award Committee unanimously nominated the Commission “Geography of Governance” for the IGU Commissions Excellence Award 2020.

 


 


Friday, 28 May 2021

IGU Thematic Conference: Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past

 


 

IGU Thematic Conference: Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past


 

IGU Thematic Conference

Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past

Lecce, Italy , 27 - 28 May 2021

Organizing Commissions

  • Commission on Political Geography

  • Commission on Cultural Approaches to Geography

  • Commission on the History of Geography

  • Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change

  • Commission on Toponymy

  • Commission on the Geography of Governance


Scientific organization

Elena Dell'Agnese, Università di Milano-Bicocca

Fabio Pollice, Università del Salento


Scientific committee

Hamzah Bin Muzaini, National University of Singapore

Louis Dupont, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Je-Hun Ryu, Korea National University of Education

Romeo Hanxhari, University of Tirana

Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam

Claudio Minca, Macquarie

Dieter Müller, Umeå universitet

Alec Murphy, University of Oregon

Velvet Nelson, Sam Houston State University

Carlos Nunes Silva, University of Lisbon

Cosimo Palagiano, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu

Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Università di Milano-Bicocca

Anna Trono, Università del Salento


Local organization: Federica Epifani, Patrizia Miggiano, Sara Nocco, Antonella Rinella, Marco Sponziello


Webhttp://conference.unisalento.it/ocs/index.php/heritagegeographies/heritagegeographies

Infoheritagegeographies@unisalento.it


Themes for Sessions and Papers

  • 1. Heritage governance

  • 2. Heritage and Urban Planning

  • 3. Heritage-telling

  • 4. Patrimonialization of cultural heritage

  • 5. Heritage and ICTs

  • 6. Memories from the territories and educational strategies

  • 7. Heritage geopolitics

  • 8. Heritage and knowledge economy

  • 9. Heritage for consumption: tourists and tourism

  • 10. Heritage and toponymy

  • 11. Heritages, Mediterranean cultures and Southern thinking

  • 12. Dark Heritage (from below)



IGU Commission Geography of Governance - contact

For additional information regarding the 4 sessions promoted by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance, contact: igu.geogov@gmail.com

  • Final Conference Program »»»

  • Sessions on Local and Urban Governance and Heritage »»»

  • Final Round Table - Talk on Governance of Heritage »»»

Saturday, 13 March 2021

IGU 100th Anniversary Congress - 2022, Paris


IGU 100th Anniversary Congress

(Centennial Congress)

 

Dates: 18th to 22th July 2022
Location: Paris
Theme: Time for Geographers 
Website: 
https://www.ugiparis2022.org/index.php?langue=en&onglet=4
Everything you need to know is on the congress website: information about the congress scientific objectives and key dates for registration, session submission and abstract submission. 
 
Timeline: 
Sessions submission: March-July 2021
Abstract submission: September-November 2021

Friday, 4 December 2020

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2021


 

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers

7-11 April 2021, Seattle WA, USA

 

Call for papers

 

AAG Annual Conference 2021, Seattle, WA, USA, 7-11 April 2021

 

SESSION TITLE

 

Local Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: impacts, challenges, responses

 

 

ORGANIZER & CHAIR

 

Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

 

 

DESCRIPTION

 

The International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance aims to advance knowledge of the geography of territorial governance, at the urban, local and regional levels, namely the conditions, scale and characteristics of new modes of territorial governance, in particular those that will emerge as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and its social, cultural, political, economic and environmental consequences.

 

The session 'Local Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: impacts, challenges, responses' aims to examine and discuss the impact of the pandemic on central-local government relations and on local government policies, on public services, housing, social services, mobility, and spatial planning. It will discuss the actions taken by local government towards the COVID-19 pandemic, and its outcomes and impacts, during the first and second waves of the pandemic, as well as lessons for the future.

 

We invite abstracts that concern various aspects of the role of local government during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts, as well abstracts focused on the ongoing changes in local governance systems in this context, namely changes associated with the use new digital technologies. We welcome abstracts of those engaged in the activities of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance, as well as from anyone with a relevant contribution in this field.

 

We are interested to discuss:

- What strategies, plans, policy measures, and actions have been adopted by local government to control and shape the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic locally and what has been its impact on the effects of the pandemic?

- What strategies, plans, policy measures, and actions have been adopted by local government to tackle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, on society and on the local economy?

- What strategies, plans, policy measures, and actions are local government employing to distribute resources and care among local populations, what cooperation with local community action networks and citizen initiatives during the pandemic?

- What changes have been introduced in central-local relations (decentralization / re-centralization), what innovations in multi-level governance have been tried to tackle more effectively the COVID-19 pandemic, what has been the role of inter-municipal cooperation and metropolitan government in this context, and what is being done through cross-border municipal and regional cooperation during the pandemic?

- What has been the role of technologies in local mobility, on remote work and education, and on surveillance through tracking and tracing the COVID-19 in urban areas?

- What local government strategies, policy measures, planning scenarios, and actions are being designed for the post COVID-19 crisis, namely towards building resilient, smart communities?

This session is associated with the Action Plan developed by the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance - 'IGU-CGoG COVID-19 Action Plan' (for more information, see the commission website: https://sites.google.com/view/igucgog-covid19/home).

 

 

Deadline for abstract submission: 19 November 2020

 

For additional information on this session, please contact:

 

Carlos Nunes Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: cs@campus.ul.pt

 

Session links:

 

Session I - https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202021/sessions-gallery/27624

 

Session II - https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202021/sessions-gallery/27396

 

Session  III - https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202021/sessions-gallery/27416

 

Session  IV - https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202021/sessions-gallery/27503  

 

Session V - https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202021/sessions-gallery/27505

 

Session  VI - https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202021/sessions-gallery/27112

 

Registration and abstract submission: https://www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting/

 

 

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