2023 RGS-IBG Annual Conference
The 2023 RGS-IBG Conference will be hosted at the Royal Geographical Society in London from Tuesday 29th August to Friday 1st September 2023. The conference will be chaired by Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University), with the theme ‘Climate Changed Geographies’.
The conference theme asks conveners and presenters to discuss what it means to know and inhabit a climate change academy – our ways of knowing, exploring, and acting geographically – and with what consequences. The theme invites geographers to consider how ideas of time and change, past, future and present are being addressed in the discipline and the ways in which this might be productively brought into dialogue with climate change. See the Chair’s Theme for further details.
The GLTRG is sponsoring 6 sessions on tourism, events, leisure, outdoor recreation with Climate Change perspective.
Geographies of sustainable spiritual and mindfulness tourism
Session organizers: Dr Jaeyeon Choe (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) and Prof. Joseph M. Cheer (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2023
Detailed Call for Abstracts available here
It’s now or never: Reframing the resilience of destinations in the Anthropocene
Session organizers: Dr Alberto Amore (University of Oulu, Finland) and Dr Bailey Ashton Adie (Wakayama University, Japan)
Abstract submission deadline: 13 March 2023
Detailed Call for Abstracts available here
From virtual to reality: Discussing the effects of the immersive displaydeviceson leisure and tourism experiences
Session organizer: Dr Lin Li Pin (MingChuan University, Taiwan)
Must the show go on? The future of events and sports tourism in the Anthropocene
Session organizers: Dr Alberto Amore (University of Oulu, Finland) and Dr Valeria Pecorelli (IULM University, Italy)
Abstract submission deadline: 13 March 2023
Detailed Call for Abstracts available here
Climate change adaptation: bringing together social and environmental science for mountain tourism and recreation adaptation
Session organizers: Dr Emanuel Salim (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and
Dr Lucas Berard (Universite Grenoble Alpes, France)
Contemporary Countercultural Communities and Geographies of Sustainability
Session organizer: Dr Michael O’Regan (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Abstract submission deadline: 17 February 2023