Events

The 1818 Society Urban and Water Thematic Group (TG) presents “Cooperation on Transboundary Waters in Africa – The Nile Basin and Beyond”. Join their Webex presentation on November 17, 2022, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.

The presentation features speaker Anders Jägerskog (Ph.D.), Program Manager of the "Cooperation on International Waters in Africa" Trust Fund, Water Practice, World Bank and will be moderated by Ariel Dinar, former Lead Economist on Water and Climate Change at the World Bank and currently Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside.

The 2023 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting will be held from March 23 to March 27, 2023. The event will be "hybrid", meaning that there will be opportunities for individuals to present and learn from the Annual Meeting in-person and online. The in-person activities will be held in Denver, Colorado.

Join CityAge and Communitech and engage in a meaningful dialogue about leveraging health and medical tech to improve the quality of care needed and deserved by all Canadians. The event will be free to attend and hosted virtually. Susan Elliott's former PhD student Kate Mulligan (inaugural director of the Canadian Centre for Social Prescribing) and University of Waterloo President Vivek Goel will be speakers at this event!

The 17th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH) is held every two or three years and is hosted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA). In May 2023, it is expected that over 3000 delegates will convene in Rome, Italy for the Congress.

The theme of the 17th WCPH is " A World in Turmoil: Opportunities to Focus on the Public’s Health".

Abstract submissions open 01 September 2022 and are due 09 December 2022.

For more information, please visit the event website.

The CAG Annual Meeting 2023 will be hosted by The Department of Geography of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) from May 8 to May 12, 2023. The theme of the Annual Meeting is "Anthropocene: Challenges for Geography and Geographers".

Calls for proposals are now open! Abstracts are due February 28, 2023. For more information, see the Call for Proposals.

The International Geographical Union (IGU) Conference on Health, Environment and Sustainable Development: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic World will be held in Bucharest and Danube Delta, Romania, from June 13 to 16, 2023. The event will address critical issues related to health and healthcare, environmental changes and sustainable development after the COVID‐19 pandemic.

Abstracts must be submitted by April 20, 2023.

The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) & Institute of British Geographers (IBG) Annual International Conference will be held from August 29 to September 1, 2023. The conferencewill take place in London and online.

Calls for sessions, papers and posters are now open! The updated deadline for submissions is Friday 24 March 2023. 

The next Canadian Conference on Global Health will be held in Ottawa from October 16 to 18, 2023. More details will follow as the event approaches!

If you are researching climate change adaptation through a human geography lens, you may be interested in this conference!

Human geographies of climate change adaptation: An international scientific conference is hosted by University of Bergen, in Bergen, Norway, on May 15th and 16th with social activities on May 17th, 2024.

You can use this online form to register for the conference. Deadline for abstract submission January 31st, 2024.

The CAG Annual Meeting 2024 will be hosted by Memorial University of Newfoundland, from August 14 to 19, 2024. More information about the event to come!