This is a running list of sessions that the DGSG will be sponsoring for the upcoming AAG in San Francisco. 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.

Join the Digital Geographies Specialty Group at AAG 2026 for our Business Meeting on Wednesday, March 18 (11:40 AM – 12:40 PM, Nob Hill 10) and our Digital Geographies Social from 2:30 – 3:50 PM (Union Square 15 & 16) — we’d love to see you there.

Sponsored Sessions

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• Tuesday, March 17
• Wednesday, March 18
• Thursday, March 19
• Friday, March 20
• Saturday, March 21

Tuesday, March 17

12:50 – 2:10 PM

• Scheming as a Spatiotemporal Secret: Behind the Scenes of the Conjuncture
  Continental 7, Ballroom Level, Hilton Union Square
• Other Ways of Seeing: Multi-Modal Methods in Spatial Research
  Nob Hill 1, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

2:00 – 5:00 PM

• FV 1–3: Bay Model and North Golden Gate Bridge
  Hilton – Taylor Street Entrance

2:30 – 3:50 PM

• States of Precarity: Migration and Labor in Landscapes of Displacement
  Nob Hill 1, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

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Wednesday, March 18

8:30 – 9:50 AM

• Smart Urban Governance and e-Planning (1)
  Virtual Room 2
• Graduate Education in the Age of LLM
  Golden Gate 7, Lobby Level, Hilton Union Square

10:10 – 11:30 AM

• Smart Urban Governance and e-Planning (2)
  Virtual Room 3

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM

• Digital Geographies Specialty Group Business Meeting
  Nob Hill 10, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

12:50 – 2:10 PM

• Platform Labor: Algorithmic Management & Inequality
  Nob Hill 10, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

2:30 – 3:50 PM

• Anticipatory AI Governance in Public Administrations Worldwide
  Mendocino 1 & 2, 2nd Floor, Nikko
• Feeling the City I: Urban Imaginaries and Affective Geographies
  Carmel 1, 3rd Floor, Nikko
• Digital Geographies Social
  Union Square 15 & 16, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

4:10 – 5:30 PM

• Feeling the City II: Perception, Power, and the Politics of Urban Space
  Carmel 1, 3rd Floor, Nikko
• Authors-Meet-Critics: Datafied Democracies & AI Economics Unplugged
  Mendocino 1 & 2, 2nd Floor, Nikko

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Thursday, March 19

8:30 – 9:50 AM

• Parcels, Pixels, and the City
  Nob Hill 2 & 3, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

10:10 – 11:30 AM

• Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Environmental Exposure & Health
  Continental 8, Ballroom Level, Hilton Union Square

2:30 – 3:50 PM

• Space/Times of Social Reproduction (1): Rethinking Labor and Value
  Union Square 17 & 18, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

4:10 – 5:30 PM

• GISER Symposium: Linking Human Physiology and Perception of Space
  Nikko I, 3rd Floor, Nikko
• Space/Times of Social Reproduction (2): Rethinking Care and Resistance
  Union Square 17 & 18, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

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Friday, March 20

8:30 – 9:50 AM

• This Session is Haunted: Local Legends, Monsters, and Chimera (1)
  Golden Gate 4, Lobby Level, Hilton Union Square
• Platforming Urban Space 1
  Union Square 15 & 16, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square
• Groundtruthiness 1: Major Conflicts
  Nob Hill 8 & 9, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

10:10 – 11:30 AM

• This Session is Haunted: Local Legends, Monsters, and Chimera (2)
  Golden Gate 4, Lobby Level, Hilton Union Square
• Platforming Urban Space 2
  Union Square 15 & 16, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square
• Groundtruthiness 2: Minor Histories
  Nob Hill 8 & 9, 6th Floor, Hilton Union Square

2:30 – 3:50 PM

• Alt + F4 | Rebooting Digital Geographies
  Nikko II, 3rd Floor, Nikko

4:10 – 5:30 PM

• GISER Symposium: Disability GIS
  Golden Gate, 25th Floor, Nikko

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Saturday, March 21

8:30 – 9:50 AM

• Modern Methods in Mapmaking 1: Experimental Cartographies
  Golden Gate 3, Lobby Level, Hilton Union Square
• Insurance, Climate Change & Spatial Governance (1)
  Continental 3, Ballroom Level, Hilton Union Square
• Open Fields: New Critical Perspectives on Digital Spaces (1): Practice
  Union Square 19 & 20, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

10:10 – 11:30 AM

• Modern Methods in Mapmaking 2: Inclusive Cartographies
  Golden Gate 3, Lobby Level, Hilton Union Square
• Insurance, Climate Change & Spatial Governance (2)
  Continental 3, Ballroom Level, Hilton Union Square
• Open Fields: New Critical Perspectives on Digital Spaces (2): Theory
  Union Square 19 & 20, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

12:50 – 2:10 PM

• Insurance, Climate Change & Spatial Governance (3)
  Continental 3, Ballroom Level, Hilton Union Square
• Open Fields: New Critical Perspectives on Digital Spaces (3): Panel
  Union Square 19 & 20, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

2:30 – 3:50 PM

• Schemes, Scams, and Flim-flam (1)
  Union Square 15 & 16, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

4:10 – 5:30 PM

• Schemes, Scams, and Flim-flam (2)
  Union Square 15 & 16, 4th Floor, Hilton Union Square

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