This is a running list of sessions that the DGSG will be sponsoring for the upcoming AAG in Detroit. For more information on session sponsorship, please see our previous post. We will be adding links to the sessions as they become available in the AAG’s digital program.

Sponsored Sessions

• “Politics of AI and the Environment.” Organized by Jenny Goldstein (Cornell University) and Eric Nost (University of Guelph).
• “Data, Housing, and Planning.” Organized by Rob Kitchin (Maynooth University), Juliette Davret (Maynooth University), Carla Kayanan (Maynooth University), and Taylor Shelton (Georgia State University).
• “Engaging Publics, Envisioning Futures: Geographic Scholarship in Action.” Organized by Serin Houston (Mount Holyoke College) and Dan Trudeau (Macalester College).
• “Globalization’s New Trends: Digital Platform Geoeconomy, Geopolitics, and Uneven Development.” Organized by Jane Zheng (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Hyejin Yoon (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), and Jung Won Sonn (University College London).
• “Media Matter(s) in Geography: On Theory, Genealogy, and Analysis of Media Spatiality.” Organized by Jacob Saindon (University of Kentucky) and Matthew Wilson (University of Kentucky).
• “Decoding the Quantitative Turn in Critical Geography.” Organized by Julien Migozzi (University of Oxford and University of California, Berkeley) and Renee Tapp (University of Florida).
• “Spaces of Digital Labor: Automation, Platforms, and Urban Economies in the 21st Century.” Organized by Alex Tarr (Newcastle University) and Dillon Mahmoudi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County).
• “AI and the Global Climate Crisis.” Organized by Ryan Burns (University of Washington, Bothell and University of Calgary) and Katherine Harrington (National Science Foundation).
• “Digital ⇔ Spectacle ⇔ Material.” Organized by Jim Thatcher (Oregon State University), Amy Zhang (University of Manchester), and Craig Dalton (Hofstra University).
• “Technology, Power, and the City: Reconnecting the Dots in Turbulent Times.” Organized by Will Payne (Rutgers University), Jovanna Rosen (Rutgers University), and Luis Alvarez León (Dartmouth College).
• “The Interesting Data and Methods Session.” Organized by Rachel Franklin (Newcastle University), Dani Arribas-Bel (University of Liverpool), Elizabeth Delmelle (University of Pennsylvania), and Isabelle Nilsson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte).
• “Minor Histories of Geographic Information Systems.” Organized by Jack Swab (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Ian Spangler (Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library).
• “Urban AI Spectrums.” Organized by Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dublin), Ayona Datta (University College London), and Federico Caprotti (University of Exeter).
• Author Meets Critics: Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, edited by Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karnoven, Pauline McGuirk, and Simon Marvin (Routledge 2024). Organized by Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dublin), Simon Marvin (University of Sheffield), and Federico Caprotti (University of Exeter).
• “Social Media Geopolitics.” Organized by Davide Giacomo Zoppolato (West Virginia University) and Karen Culcasi (West Virginia University).
• “Logistical Landscapes: Examining the Landed Dimensions of Logistics and Platform Economies.” Organized by Aman Banerji (Cornell University) and Laura Schmahmann (University of California, Berkeley).
• “Chinese Digital Infrastructural Expansion in China and Beyond: Platforms, E-commerce and Security.” Organized by Xiaoling Chen (University of Colorado Boulder), Dylan Brady (National University of Singapore), and Tim Oakes (University of Colorado Boulder).
• “Feminist and Transformative Mapping Tools and Praxis.” Organized by Meghan Kelly (Syracuse University), Núria Font (Pompeu Fabra University), and Maria Rodó-Zárate (Pompeu Fabra University).
• “Spatial Social Networks.” Organized by Clio Andris (Georgia Tech) and Yujie Hu (University of Florida).
• “Platform(ed) Financial Subjectivity: Researching Platform Logic and Financial Subject Formation in the Digital Finance Ecosystem.” Organized by Desiree Fields (University of California, Berkeley) and Jessa Loomis (Newcastle University).
• “Spatial Data Sharing: Questions of Ownership, Platforms, and Governance.” Organized by Peter Johnson (University of Waterloo) and Pamela Robinson (Toronto Metropolitan University).
• “Advancing Visual Methods in Geography.” Organized by Jonathan Cinnamon (University of British Columbia Okanagan), Agnieszka Leszczynski (Western University), and Lindi Jahiu (Western University).
• “Digital Geographies of Rural and Environmental Archives.” Organized by Ricardo Barbosa, Jr. (Clark University), Estevan Coca (Federal University of Alfenas), and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre (University of California, Berkeley).
• “Citizen Participation in Urban e-Planning.” Organized by Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon).
• “Critical Geographies of Representations.” Organized by Bethany Craig (University of Kentucky) and Zachary Cudney (University of Washington).
• “Human-Centered Geospatial Data Science.” Organized by Jiaxin Feng (Dartmouth College), Hoeyun Kwon (The City University of New York), and Yuhao Kang (The University of Texas at Austin).
• “Insurgent Life! Insisting on Life through Anti-Colonial Digital Geographies.” Organized by Isaac Rivera (University of Colorado Boulder), Amber Orozco (University of Georgia), Maya Henderson (University of Georgia), and Claire Fitch (University of Texas at Austin).
• “Nature, Surveillance, Goverannce: Experiments in Smart Earth.” Organized by Samuel Hertz (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Clare Beer (Loyola Marymount University).