Annual International Conference

The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 took place in London and online between Tuesday 27 August and Friday 30 August 2024.

Access the programme, session recordings and other resources here, and request a certificate of attendance here.

AC2025

The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025 will be chaired by Professor Pat Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK). 

The conference will take place at the University of Birmingham and online, from Tuesday 26 August to Friday 29 August 2025.

It will be on the theme of creativity.

Whether it’s the capacity to create new places out of old, or new spatial relations where none existed before, or to create beautiful things – artworks, writing, architecture, music, dance – in places and across spaces, creativity seems almost too fundamental to focus on.

But what are the spatialities of creativity?  The geographies of creative practice – how artwork sustains globalised flows of money for example, or how music reshapes buildings and bodies, or how creative writing nurtures geopolitics – are sometimes hard to theorise and bear witness to.  Yet creative practice is crucial both to physical processes and to human experiences: we need to understand it.

More fundamentally, if there sometimes seems to be too little creativity in our habitually over-consuming world, how do geographers become more creative?  Is 21^st century Geography a truly creative discipline?  At a time when our world really needs a creative vision, to deal with new challenges in new ways, this conference theme asks for nothing less than a creative re-visioning of our discipline.  

More information and a call for papers will be announced in November 2024.