Come along on Friday for an informal and friendly gathering of political geographers (broadly defined!) over lunch. All very welcome!

Keynote Political Geography Lecture Alert! RGS-IBG Ondaatje Theatre (virtual livestream also available) 9-10.40 Oliver Belcher - The Other Carceral Archipelago: Or the Arts of Confessing Communism in US Military Prisons (1949-1968)

Institutional knowledge practices and expertise: producing, maintaining and circulating epistemic objects (1) ICL — Sir Alexander Fleming Room 122 9-10.40 With Climate Change Research Group we explore how actors and institutions deploy knowledge practices and expertise to govern complex issues

Redefining the housing (activism) question (2) RGS-IBG Education Centre (Hybrid) 11.10-12.50 Topics include: board games for tenant organising; Bidding to Rent; unmooring housing activism; housing crisis fascisms, Streets Kitchen organising

Institutional knowledge practices & expertise: producing, maintaining & circulating epistemic objects (2) ICL — Sir Alexander Fleming Room 122 11.10-12.50 With Climate Change Research Group we explore knowledge production with a focus on adaption, planning, coexistence, expertise & management

Future techniques, protagonists and spaces: A critical reflection on geographical speculation (1) Blackett Lecture Theatre 3 2.40-4.20 With GFGRG - research on European extractivism, speculative political ecologies, Amazon's Urban speculations, co-production in Glasgow

Institutional knowledge practices and expertise: producing, maintaining and circulating epistemic objects (3) Sir Alexander Fleming Room 122 2:40pm - 4:20pm With Climate Change Research Group

Panel Author Meets Critics: Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land by Noam Leshem ICL — SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 5 Discussing Leshem's research on abandoned lives and lands in Colombia, Cyprus, France, Palestine-Israel and Sudan

Future techniques, protagonists and spaces: A critical reflection on geographical speculation (2) ICL — Blackett Lecture Theatre 3 4.50-6.30 With GFGRG, talks on: Haunting the Future City, Capricious Imaginaries, Underground Queer Nightlife

Polar Projections: Political Geographies of Arctic Mapping SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 10 9-10.40 An experimental panel using a map to explore the political stories that it offers and reflect on the ideational, material, and emotional geopolitics of the high north

Unearthing the deep politics of land value policy Sir Alexander Fleming Lecture Theatre G34 11.10-12.50 Research on development in Antwerp, public-private partnerships, Green Belt land in South Korea, Community Right to Buy in Scotland, and land value capture

Reminder - our lunch time session today is in the RGS-IBG Members' Room 1.10-2.25 Everyone welcome

Mapping urban nature through politics, practice and participation: mapping process (1) ICL — Sir Alexander Fleming Lecture Theatre G34 2.40-4.20 Topics include: green space and sustainable travel, greening rooftops, post-pandemic green spaces, mapping spaces for nature

Displaced People, Displaced Objects: Political Mappings of Indigenous Material Culture SALC (Sherfield Building) Room 5 with SCGRG 4.50-6.30 Topics include: Palestinian Sovereignty over Heritage, Heritage policy & Settler Colonialism, Dayak Pottery, Dissenting Objects

Cities and Multiple Nationalisms: Mapping Conceptual Territories Sir Alexander Fleming Room 121 4.50-6.30 Exploring passing as a tourist, mosque architecture in N England, the Ukrainian war of Independence, Atmospheric Violence in Ontario, Urban Apartheid in Israel/Palestine

Mapping urban nature through politics, practice and participation: mapping change (2) Sir Alexander Fleming Lecture Theatre G34 4.50-6.30 Research on Greenspaces in Manchester, wildflower meadows in Luton Airport, greening cycling in Vienna, Miyawaki Forests in Urban UK

Save the date(s)! ⌚️ The PolGRG is organising an online seminar series to provide space to discuss recent student solidarities with Palestine - and how this relates to political geographies, universities' role, securitization of university spaces, and responsibility 👇

The first online seminar in our series on Student Solidarities with Palestine will take place on Tues 17th Sept, 1pm-2:30pm BST! "Global Solidarities: Experiences from the encampments" - please sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Share widely + join the first event of a PolGRG seminar series: 'Student solidarities with Palestine'. We have wonderful speakers involved in student encampments in Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK incl. Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 // @[email protected] Ellie Armon Azoulay, PhD, #UCU @joharame forms.gle/TNEmvdiG9Ewnvu…

A reminder this is happening next week on Tuesday - please sign up in advance to attend!