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

• “Space/Times of Social Reproduction in the Digital Economy.” Organized by María Cervantes-Macías (University of British Columbia), Dylan O’Donoghue (Rutgers University-Camden), Hillary Quarles (University of Colorado Denver), Vignesh Ramachandran (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
• “Groundtruthiness, or, How to Lie with Satellites.” Organized by Evangeline McGlynn (Harvard University) and Richard Nisa (Carnegie-Melon University).
• “Schemes, Scams, and Flim-flam: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography.” Organized by Will B. Payne (Rutgers University), Desiree Fields (University of California, Berkeley), Jovan Scott Lewis (University of California, Berkeley).
• “Smart Urban Governance & e-Planning.” Organized by Carlos Nunes Silva (Lisbon, Portugal).
• “This Session is Haunted: Local Legends, Monsters, and Chimera.” Organized by Alexis Wood (University of California, Berkeley) and J. Lee Crandall (University of California, Berkeley).
• “Post-Truth Geographies Forever? Geographies of Post-Truth in the Age of Trump.” Organized by Barney Warf (University of Kansas) and Jim Proctor (Clark University).
• “Graduate Education in the Age of LLM.” Organized by Timur Hammond (Syracuse University), Bob Wilson (Syracuse University), Jane Read (Syracuse University).
• “Platforming Urban Space.” Organized by Triparnee Kushari (Rutgers University), Nasha Virata (Rutgers University), Will B. Payne (Rutgers University), Jovanna Rosen (Loyola Marymount University), Luis F. Alvarez León (Dartmouth College).
• “Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance.” Oragnized by Stephen J. Collier (UC Berkeley), Savannah Cox (University of Sheffield), Leigh Johnson (University of Oregon), Jathan Sadowski (Monash University).
• “Digital Land: Emergent Tensions, Contradictions, Futures.” Organized by Joachim Stassart (University of British Columbia) and Kendra Kintzi (New York University).
• “Disability GIS.” Organized by Shiloh Deitz (Saint Louis University) and Victoria Fast (University of Calgary).
• “Mapping and Measuring Structural Racism and Discrimination in the US: Advancing Place-Based GIScience for Health Equity.” Organized by Debs Ghos (University of Connecticut), Sabina Bhandari (University of Connecticut), and Youshuang Hu (University of Connecticut).
• “But why is GIS like that? Critical approaches to geography and software.” Organized by Alex Tarr (Newcastle University) and Ingrid Burrington (University of Delaware).