Annual International Conference

Future conferences

The dates and locations for conferences in 2020 and 2021 are expected to be as follows (though are subject to change):

• Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2020, at RGS-IBG in London

• Tuesday 31 August to Friday 3 September 2021, venue TBC

Venue for the Society's 2021 annual conference

Our annual conference is the largest annual academic geography conference in Europe, with over 1,800 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 Cardiff University (2018), the University of Exeter (2015), the University of Edinburgh (2012), and the University of Manchester (2009). 
 
We are now shortlisting venues for our 2021 conference, and are looking for a UK higher education institution to host. We are particularly interested in bids from HEIs based in the north of England or the Midlands, but are open to all suggestions. The deadline for proposals is Tuesday 12 September 2019. Proposals should be sent to Dr Sarah L. Evans. More information about our requirements and the bidding process is available in our bids document (PDF).

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