Social and Cultural Geography Research Group conference session sponsorship

The Society's Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) would like to invite expressions of interest for sponsored sessions for the 2026 Annual International Conference, which will take place in London at the Society and Imperial College London, and online, from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2026.

The 2026 conference theme is on the theme of Geographies of inequalities: toward just places, as chosen by conference Chair Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK).

SCGRG is keen to sponsor sessions that directly relate to the conference theme, as well as make room for a wide range of other issues and topics.

We welcome sessions which will be of wide significance and interest to social and cultural geographers, will meaningfull contribute to ongoing debates in social and cultural geography, and demonstrate substantive, methodological or theoretical novelty.

We are particularly interested in proposals exploring the social and cultural construction, reinforcement, and/or resistance of just and unjust places globally, as well as the socio-cultural effects when these places intersect.

We encourage diverse epistemological and methodological approaches to social and/or cultural theorisation and problematisation of spaces of inequalities.

Please take note of the guidance for session organisers.

Please submit your expressions of interest for SCGRG sponsorship by 5.00pm GMT on Friday, 30 January 2026 through the session sponsorship form (Microsoft Form).

We will endeavour to inform applicants of the outcome by late February 2026.

Questions about SCGRG-sponsored sessions should be directed to the SCGRG conference officer Hanh-An Trinh at t.trinh1@lse.ac.uk

Deadline: Friday 30 January 2026.