ICGS 2024: Final programme now available

The final programme for the International Conference on Geographical Studies 2024 with a theme: Situated-in-Practice: Geographical Praxis, Mapping and Doing is now available.

Go to https://sites.google.com/up.edu.ph/icgs2024/home

The ICGS runs from 15-16 November 2024 via remote/Zoom. The ICGS is jointly sponsored by the UP Department of Geography and the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS). 

Contact icgs.ph@gmail.com if you have questions.

ICGS 2024: Call for Abstracts Reminder, Part 3

Gently but gleefully end your association with a situation or place that feels oppressive.

That’s your horoscope for this week. As with most horoscopes, they can be applied to any situation and can be creatively practiced in ways that satisfy intensely personal goals. Rob Brezsny writes some of the best of this “burst of inspiration” that illuminates individual adventures. Witty, funny and perspicacious – what’s not to like?

 

So in the language of horoscope, let us issue our last call for abstracts for the upcoming ICGS 2024: In the coming days leading to 20 October, we invite you to map your psyche’s resourceful depths because you might discover the inspiration to bargain, mediate, and negotiate with élan. You will have a heightened ability to achieve your task. The cosmos may not have a quantifiable end but in terms of abstract submission to ICGS, there is an end to things as we know it: a non-negotiable deadline. 

 

Send your 250-word abstract this Sunday, 20 October to https://bit.ly/ICGS2024Abstracts. There is no extension beyond the deadline. Heed what the song extols to all bohemians: “no day but today”.

To read our original call for abstracts, check out this link.

Results of abstract acceptance will be sent to your email by 28 October.

Geography Lecture 2024: Casper Bruun Jensen on thinking geographies beyond the human

The UP Department of Geography through the Environment and Development Geographies (EDGE) research group, and the Geography 301 (Environmental Geography) graduate course present Dr Casper Bruun Jensen of Chulalongkorn University. 

His talk More-than-Human Worlds: Anthropocene Geographies beyond the Human happens on Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 5:30PM in the Geography Conference Room of Pavilion 2 Building of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. 

The lecture is open to the public. 

Abstract

Over the last decades – and especially in the last decade – many social sciences have become more and more interested in nonhumans. The shift is quite dramatic. Where critical social science used to orient primarily, or exclusively, to social, cultural, economic and political relations (analyzed variably with repertoires from Marxism to postmodernism), the disciplines are now populated with actor-networks, assemblages, material-semiotic relations, new materialism, vibrant matter and object-oriented ontologies. 

In this lecture, I trace two histories of these developments. The first is conceptual, from early science and technology studies, where actor-network theory became (in)famous for its symmetrical treatment of human and nonhuman agency  while cyborg analyses emerged from feminist technoscience studies. The second is empirical, as the acceleration of planetary environmental trajectories have forced social science to reckon with earthly powers beyond the human. Throughout, my own research Cambodian environmental infrastructures and urban transformations in Bangkok provide illustration of what it can mean to think geographies beyond the human, and what the implications—conceptual and political—might be.