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Future conferences

​Our annual conference is the largest annual academic geography conference in Europe, with over 2,000 delegates from 60 countries taking part in close to 400 academic sessions.

The Society hosts the conference in our building in London for two out of every three years (hiring additional space at Imperial College London), and then every third year we take the conference out of London.

The past out-of-London conferences have been held at Newcastle University (2022), Cardiff University (2018), the University of Exeter (2015), the University of Edinburgh (2012), and the University of Manchester (2009). 

Future conferences

Next year’s conference will be hosted at the University of Birmingham (UK), from the from Tuesday 27 to Friday 29 August 2025. It will be chaired by Professor Pat Noxolo (University of Birmingham). More on the theme, key dates and timelines will be published in November 2024.

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