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Exterior of the Royal Geographical Society Pavilion and main entrance, with people walking up to the entrance

​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 in London, Tuesday 27 to Friday 30 August 2024, at the Society and chaired by Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham. More on the theme, key dates and timelines will be published in October and November 2023.