Commissions’ events

2025 IGU Urban Commission Annual Conference
Cities and Urban Systems in Transition: Transformations, Resilience, and Policy
Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, 11th to 15th August 2025

Link: IGU Conference | GEOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | Stellenbosch University

Deadline for abstract submission: the 15th of March 2025

All abstracts should be sent to: Herman Geyer: hsgeyerjr@sun.ac.za; Dani Broitman: danib@technion.ac.il; Natacha Aveline: natacha.aveline@cnrs.fr

IGU Commission Geography of Governance – Annual Conference – 2024
Reimagining local governance: just, sustainable and diverse
23 – 24 August 2024 – Maynooth, Ireland
Conference Website

The IGU Tourism Commission – Pre-meeting Galway 2024
The IGU Tourism Commission Pre-Meeting extends a Céad míle fáilte (a very warm
welcome) to all geographers working on tourism-related issues.
August 22 – 24 2024 – Galway, Ireland
coordinated by Dr. Bernadette Quinn (TU Dublin)
Conference Website

IGU Commission on Gender and Geography – Pre-meeting Dublin 2024
in collaboration with the School of Geography, University College Dublin
“FEMINIST AND QUEER SPATIALITIES: CARE, CONNECTION AND CHANGE”
21 – 22 August 2024 – University College Dublin, Ireland
Conference Website

IGU Commission on Local and Regional Development, Land Use and Land Cover Change and Health and Environment
The Pre-IGC Dublin 2024 Meeting, August 20-23, 2024
Cork City, Ireland
Conference Information

The IGU Urban Commission – Pre-meeting Cork 2024
Crises, what crisis? Urban Development and policy in Search of the “new normal”
20 – 23 August 2024 – Cork, Ireland
Organized in collaboration with the Department of Geography, University College Cork
Conference Website

IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces – CDES
Asia in the Transforming Global Economy
21 – 22 June 2024, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conference website

8th International Conference on ‘Urban e-Planning’ – 2024
The conference is endorsed by the IGU Commission: Geography of Governance
25 – 26 March 2024 – Virtual / Online, from University of Lisbon, Portugal
Convenor: Carlos Nunes Silva, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University
of Lisbon, Portugal
Conference website

The IGU Tourism Commission – Pre-meeting Galway 2024
A three-day pre-meeting in Galway, Ireland immediately prior to the IGC Dublin in
August 2024, coordinated by Dr. Bernadette Quinn (TU Dublin).
More information will be available soon on the commission’s website

Title of the conference: Literary, polar and extraterrestrial place names
(the event organized by the IGU-ICA Joint Commission on Toponymy)
Date: 23rd-24th November 2023
Place: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, via della Lungara, 10
Short summary: The conference aims to draw the attention to place names of literature, polar lands and extraterrestrial areas, such as the Moon, Mars etc, mapped in ancient times and recently.
Call for abstracts deadline: September 30th 2023
Website: https://www.lincei-roma-toponymy2023.org

COASTAL TRANSITIONS III: RE-IMAGINING COASTAL TRANSITIONS: DIVERSE BLUE ECONOMIES
November 8th to 10th, 2023, University of Connecticut – Avery Point, Groton, Connecticut, USA
Co-sponsored by IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces and Commission on Coastal Systems
First Circular

Annual Conference of the IGU LRD Commission entitled Driving Growth and Sustainability: Advancing Local and Regional Development Strategies
25-29 September 2023, Rosebank Johannesburg, South Africa
will be organized in collaboration with the IGU Commissions on Land Use and Land Cover Change and Health and the Environment.
First Circular

The relevance of Applied Population Geography Research
September 19 – 22, 2023 – University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece
A symposium co-hosted by the Applied Geography Commission and the Commission on Population Geography of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean,
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2023
Conference website

IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces (IGU CDES) – Annual Meeting – 2023
Rethinking the economic geography of smaller urban places: Transformation and wellbeing in small and medium-sized towns.
September 13 – 15, 2023 – Bern, Switzerland
For further details, please visit the Commission’s website

International Conference – “Paradigm Shifts in Local and Urban Governance”
IGU Commission Geography of Governance – Annual Conference – 2023
Budapest, 4 – 6 September 2023
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/geogov2023/home

Program: https://sites.google.com/view/geogov2023/program
Abstracts: https://sites.google.com/view/geogov2023/abstracts

E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com, cs@campus.ul.pt

GU conference on Health, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Changes, challenges, and opportunities in a post-pandemic world
June 13 – 16, 2023 – Bucharest and Danube Delta, Romania

The conference aims to address a wide diversity of approaches and topics related to the geography of health and healthcare, theoretical and methodological perspectives on land use, and environmental changes and impacts on local and regional development. It aims to explore the direct or indirect impacts of covid-19 on population health, healthcare, and well– being, both negative or positive effects of the pandemic on the environment and land use, COVID-19 economic recovery measures, and
potential strategies for longer-term resilience and sustainable development. Under the auspices of:
The International Geographical Union (IGU)
• Health and the Environment Commission
• Land Use/Land Cover Change Commission
• Local and Regional Development Commission
& Romanian National Committee of Geography
Abstract submission deadline (250 words in English): April 20, 2023
Conference Website

30th Annual Colloquium Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems
(CSRS) – Clashes of knowledge: “Green deal” concepts and challenges for sustainable
rural systems, June 05 – 09, 2023, Lodz, Poland
Three thematic sessions:
– Environmental risk and social transformations in rural areas.
– Rural local communities towards the challenges of the “green deal”.
– Transformation of the rural cultural landscape.
6 February – 6 March 2023: Conference Early-bird registration opens
7 March – 21 May 2023: Late registration opens
Conference website

The IGU Commission on African Studies – Annual Meeting – 2023
Mobilizing geographical knowledge in response to increased and intensified pandemics
and risks, May 28 – 30, 2023 – Univ. Pedagógica de Maputo, Campus da Lhanguene, Moçambique
Commission website

A full list of Commission and Task Forces and contact details of their respective chairs is available here