Journal sponsored sessions

We are delighted to welcome the following keynote lectures and sessions to this year's annual conference. Browse the online programme for further details.

• Antipode Lecture, given by Dr Ilias Alami (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Area panel, with discussants Professor Gareth Clay (University of Manchester, UK), Professor Nick Gill (University of Exeter, UK), Professor Hester Parr (University of Glasgow, UK), Professor Beth Greenhough (University of Oxford, UK), Anil Sindhwani (Durham University, UK)
• Brian Hoyle Lecture in Transport Geography, given by Professor Mark Zuidgeest (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
• Children's Geographies Lecture, given by Dr Susana Cortes (Universidad Central de Chile, Chile)
• Dialogues in Human Geography Conversation Forum: Geographies of Subsumption
• Dialogues in Human Geography Conversation Forum: The psyche, sense and the psychoanalytic: a conversation about the self in geographic thought
• Knowing the City: A Dialogues in Urban Research Panel on the Epistemological Turn in Urban Geography panel
• Digital Geographies Annual Lecture, with discussants Professor Philippa Williams (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Professor Azadeh Akbari (Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main, Germany) and Dr Julian Brigstocke (Cardiff University, UK)
• Economic Geography Lecture, given by Jennie Gustafsson (Malmö University, Sweden)
• Gender, Place and Culture & Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group Joint Lecture, given by Professor Azadeh Akbari (Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main, Germany)
• Geo: Geography and Environment panel with panellists Dr Ludovico Rella (Durham University, UK), Dr Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University, USA), Professor Mark Maslin (University College London, UK) and Dr James Dyke (University of Exeter, UK)
• Geoforum Lecture, given by Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford, UK)
• The Geographical Journal lecture, given by Professor Kathrin Hörschelmann (University of Bonn, Germany)
• The Geographical Journal and Quantitative Methods Research Group Annual Lecture, given by Dr Jessica Epsey (University of Southampton
• Geographies of the Middle East and North Africa Lecture, given by Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
• Meet the editors: International Development Planning Review 
• International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Lecture, given by Professor Alex Vasudevan (University of Oxford, UK) and with discussants Professor Michele Lancione (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) and Dr Tatiana Thieme (University College London, UK)
• Journal of Geography in Higher Education lecture, given by Professor Derek Alderman (University of Tennessee, US)
• Writing successfully for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• Journal of Historical Geography lecture, given by Professor Caroline Bressey (University College London, UK)
• Meet the Editors of the Journal of Transport Geography
• Political Geography lecture, given by Professor Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK)
• RGS-IBG Book Series: Meet the Editors
• RGS-IBG Journals: Meet the Editors
• Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography lecture, given by Professor Ayona Datta (University College London, UK) and with discussants Balawansuk Lynrah (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Professor Rob Kitchin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Professor Gillian Rose (University of Oxford, UK)
• Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers panel, with discussants Dr Yafa El Masri (University of East Anglia, UK), Professor Alex Jeffrey (University of Cambridge, UK), Dr Dana Cuomo (Lafayette University, US) and Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford, UK)
• Urban Studies Journal lecture, given by Professor Michael Storper (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK/UCLA, US)