Themed Sessions (in alphabetical order)
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Session Title: (em)Powering Communities: the path to forging a new energy landscape?
Session Convenor: Eimear Heaslip, National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: eimear.heaslip@nuigalway.ie
Session Convenors: Giselle Eugenia Connell (Durham University); Stefan Rzedzian (Newcastle University)
Email: gisele.e.o'connell@durham.ac.uk
Session Convenor: Miguel Padeiro, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Email:jmnp@uc.pt
Session Title: Agriculture and Climate Change
Session Convenor: Sinead Mellett, National University of Ireland Galway
Email: sinead.mellett@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Approaches to European Rural Development: Looking Towards 2021
Session Convenors: Aisling Murtagh, Maura Farrell, Shane Conway, Marie Mahon, John McDonagh, NUI Galway
Email: aisling.murtagh@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Art & Geography: Art, Activism and Social Engagement in the Age of the Capitalocene
Session Convenors: Karen E. Till, Nessa Cronin, Geography, Maynooth University; Irish Studies, NUI Galway
Email: karen.till@nuim.ie
Session Title: Art & Geography 2: Places and spaces of refuge
Session Convenor: Nessa Cronin (NUI Galway), Karen Till (Maynooth University) and Gerry Kearns (Maynooth University)
Email: gerry.kearns@mu.ie
Session Title: Authoring city futures: the role of International Accolade
Session Convenors: Patrick Collins, Annmarie Ryan, NUI Galway; University of Limerick
Email: p.collins@nuigalway.ie
Session Convenor: Mary Greene, Paul O'Donnell, NUI Galway
Email: mary.greene@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Big data for transport geography studies: applications and perspectives
Session Convenor: Arnaud Serry, University Le Havre Normandy
Email: serryarnaud@gmail.com
Session Title: Borders of populism in the European Union
Session Convenors: Anna Casaglia, Raffaella Coletti, University of Eastern Finland, Karelian Institute; Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. Memotef
Session Title: BREXIT and human mobility: European scenarios
Session Convenors: Josefina Domínguez-Mujica and Barbara Staniscia; International Geographical Commission
Session Title; Building coastal resilience for current and future climates
Session Convenors: Eugene Farrell, Kevin Lynch, NUI Galway
Email: eugene.farrell@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: The changing dynamics of rural territories
Session Convenor: Breandán Ó Caoimh, The GESERA Institute for Action Research
Email: BrendanOK7@gmail.com
Session Title: Communicating Research in Geography Panel
Session Convenor: Sasha Brown, Geographical Society Ireland Postgraduate and Early Career Network
Email: sasha.brown@mu.ie
Session Title: The “contemporary student”: researching the future of student landscapes
Session Convenor : Alexis Alamel, Université du Littoral Côte Opale (France)
Session Title: Creative and smart cities in Europe
Session Convenor: Tamás Egedy, Geographical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Email: egedy@gmx.net
Session Title: Creative Geographic Practices in Contemporary Ireland
Session Convenors: Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn, Eoin O'Mahony, Trinity College Dublin; University College Dublin
Email: niclochg@tcd.ie
Session Convenor: Margherita Ciervo, Jose Ignacio Vila Vazquez, Isabelle Dumont, University of Foggia; LabEx DynamiTe - CNRS UMR Géographie-cités; University of Rome Tre
Email: margherita.ciervo@unifg.it
Session Title: Cultural Transformations of Mountain Landscapes
Session Convenor: Zdeněk Kučera, Dana Fialová, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague, Czechia
Email: zdenek.kucera@natur.cuni.cz
Session Title: De-centring Infrastructures
Session Convenors: Jim White, Patrick Bresnihan, Arielle Hesse, Trinity College Dublin
Email: jmerrick@tcd.ie
Session Title: The Demands of being 'Smart'
Session Convenors: Aoife Delaney, Caspar Menkman, Maynooth University
Email: aoife.delaney@mu.ie
Session Title: Disability in rural areas: between geographic exclusion and social insertion
Session Convenors : Mauricette Fournier and Meddy Escuriet, UMR Territoires, Clermont-Auvergne University (France)
Email: Mauricette.Fournier@uca.fr
Session Convenors: Daithí Maguire, Conor Cahalane, NUI Galway, Maynooth University
Email: d.maguire11@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Elections, Place and Politics: New Directions in Electoral Geography
Session Convenor: Claire McGing, Maynooth University
Email: claire.f.mcging@mu.ie
Session Title: The end of endism? The Revival of the Nation State in Global Geopolitics
Session Convenors: Elena Dell'Agnese, Virginie Mamadouh, Università di Milano-Bicocca / Universiteit van Amsterdam
Email: v.d.mamadouh@uva.nl
Session Title: Enlightening Generational Renewal in Agriculture Policy: A Roadmap for CAP Post-2020
Session Convenors: Shane Conway, Maura Farrell, Aisling Murtagh, John McDonagh, Marie Mahon, NUI Galway
Email: shane.conway@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: EUROPE: A CONTINENT-SCAPE
Session Convenors : Nicolas Canova; Hugo Capellà-Miternique (contact person); Antoine Le Blanc; Louis Dupont, Ecole d’architecture de Lille/FR; Universitat Illes Balears/SP; Université du littoral Côte Opale/FR; Sorbonne Université/Laboratoire ENeC/FR
Email: hugo.capella@uib.eu
Session Title: The ‘European City’ - Spatial Imaginaries and Everyday Realities
Session Convenors: Philip Lawton, Ulf Strohmayer, Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway
Email: philip.lawton@tcd.ie
Session Title: European Pilgrimage: new departures and old routes
Session Convenor: Richard Scriven, National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: richard.scriven@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Exploring regional perspectives on spatially just futures
Session Convenors: Marie Mahon*, Mike Woods**, Maura Farrell*, John McDonagh*, Pat Collins*,*National University of Ireland Galway, **University of Wales Aberystwyth
Email: marie.mahon@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Food system transformation towards healthy sustainable diets
Session Convenor: Gary Goggins, National University of Ireland Galway
Email: gary.goggins@nuigalway.ie
Session Convenor: Peter Mooney, Maynooth University
Email: peter.mooney@mu.ie
Session Title: The future for peatlands in Europe: Re-imagining our relationship with peatlands.
Session Convenors: John Connolly, Alexandra Barthelmes, Dublin City University, Ireland; Greifswald University, Germany
Email: John.b.connolly@dcu.ie / alex.barthelmes@greifswaldmoor.de
Session Title: Future Proofing Rural Communities: The Importance of Educating Rural Youth
Session Convenors: Sinéad Flannery, Dr Tomás Russell, Dr Karen Keaveney, University College Dublin
Session Title: Geographies of Genocide, Ethnocide and International War Crimes
Session Convenor: Giselle E. Connell, Durham University
Email: gisele.e.o'connell@durham.ac.uk
Session Convenor: Dr Mary Jo Lavelle, NUI Galway
Email: mary.lavelle@nuigalway.ie
Session Convenors: Alma Clavin, Teresa Dillon, Christoph Woiwode, Bath Spa University; University of the West of England; Bath Spa University
Email: a.clavin@bathspa.ac.uk
Session Title: Geographies of Sustainable Consumption
Session Convenor: Helen Maguire, NUI Galway
Session Convenor: Joos Droogleever Fortuijn, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies University of Amsterdam
Session Convenor: Alfonso Giordano, and Danica Šantić, Niccolò Cusano University – Rome, University of Belgrade
Session Convenors: Camilla Spadavecchia and Ana María González Ramos,
(C.Spadavecchia) Tilburg University and (A.M.G. Ramos) IN3 -Universidad Abierta de Cataluña
Email: C.Spadavecchia@uvt.nl
Session Title: Historical Climatology
Session Convenor: Conor Murphy, Maynooth University
Email: conor.murphy@mu.ie
Session Convenors: Joanne Ahern, Holly Morrin, Pathie Maphosa, Sarah O'Gorman, Dublin Regional Homeless Executive
Email: joanne.ahern@dublincity.ie
Session Title: Housing, Globalization and Right to the City
Session Convenor : Charlotte Casier, Hugo Périlleux Sanchez, Christian Vandermotten, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Email: hugo.perilleux@ulb.ac.be
Session Convenors: Simona De Rosa, Venere Stefania Sanna, Noemi Trino, T6 Ecosystems; Sapienza University of Rome, Dep. of Methods and Model for Economics, Territory and Finance (MEMOTEF); LUISS University, Department of Political Science
Email: s.derosa@t-6.it
Session Title: Hydrology and Society
Session Convenor: Conor Murphy, Maynooth University
Email: conor.murphy@mu.ie
Session Convenors: Arielle Hesse, Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn, Trinity College Dublin
Email: ahesse@tcd.ie
Session Convenor : Mathieu Buelens, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Email: matbuele@ulb.ac.be
Session Title: INTERNATIONAL CIRCULAR MOBILITIES
Session Convenor: Illés Sándor, Active Society Foundation
Email: dr.illes.sandor@gmail.com
Session Title: International Residential Mobilities. New perspectives
Session Convenors: Josefina Domínguez-Mujica and Barbara Staniscia; International Geographical Commission
Session Title: Irish Geography: Biographical reflections
Session Convenors: Niamh Moore-Cherry; Mary Gilmartin; Rob Kitchin and Mary Bourke, University College Dublin; Maynooth University and Trinity College Dublin.
Email: niamh.moore@ucd.ie
Session Title: Lightning Talk - Snapshots in geographical research
Session Convenor: Caspar Menkman, GSI Postgrad and Early Career Network
Email: caspar.menkman@mu.ie
Session Title: Marginality within the European context seen through geographical lenses
Session Convenors: Steve Déry, Stanko Pelc (contact person); Fatima Velez de Castro, Walter Leimgruber, Université Laval, Québec; University of Primorska/SI; Universidade de Combria/P; University of Fribourg/CH
Email: stanko.pelc@pef.upr.si
Session Title: Marine Spatial Planning
Session Convenor: Liam Carr, NUI Galway
Email: liam.m.carr@nuigalway.ie
Session Convenors: Mary Greene, Anne Schiffer, NUI Galway; Leeds Beckett University
Email: mary.greene@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Migration, Mobility and Belonging
Session Convenor: Valerie Ledwith, National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: valerie.ledwith@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Neighborhood as a geographical and political concept: the European experience
Session Convenor: Vladimir Kolosov, Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: kolosov@igras.ru
Session Title: The Open Data and Research Landscape in Ireland and Beyond
Session Convenors: Oliver Dawkins, Eoin O'Mahony, Sam Stehle, Burcin Yazgi Walsh, (Dawkins, Stehle, Yazgi Walsh) NCG - Maynooth University; (O'Mahony) University College Dublin
Email: burcin.yazgiwalsh@mu.ie
Session Title: Palaeoenvironmental Change
Session Convenors: Karen Taylor, Karen Molloy, National University of Ireland Galway
Email: karen.jantaylor2@gmail.com/ Karen.molloy@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Participatory Action Research (PAR): Navigating Multiple Researcher Positionalities
Session Convenor: Elaine Williams, NUI Galway
Email: e.williams1@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Peopling urban pasts: examining everyday lives and landscapes
Session Convenors: Arlene Crampsie, Ruth McManus, UCD; DCU
Email: Ruth.McManus@dcu.ie
Session Title: Periurban landscapes: challenges for better living in [Alpine] metropolitan areas
Session Convenors: Emmanuel Roux, Stephan Pauleit, Martina van Lierop, Aurore Meyfroidt, University Grenoble Alps, Technical University Munich
Email: aurore.meyfroidt@umrpacte.fr
Session Convenors: Lorenzo Bagnoli, Pierluigi Brandolini, Università di Milano - Bicocca; Università di Genova
Email: lorenzo.bagnoli@unimib.it
Session Title: Place/territorial identity representations: discourses, images, practices
Session Convenors: Tiziana Banini and Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Session Convenors: Geographical Society of Ireland Postgraduate and Early Career Network
Geographical Society of Ireland - Postgraduate and Early Career Network
Session Convenors: Marilena Labianca (University of Salento, Italy); Francisco Navarro (University of Granada, Spain); Eugenio Cejudo (University of Granada, Spain); Angelo Belliggiano (University of Molise, Italy); Stefano De Rubertis (University of Salento, Italy)
Email: Contacts: labiancamarilena@libero.it,favalver@ugr.es,cejudo@ugr.es,angelo.belliggiano@gmail.com,stefano.derubertis@unisalento.it
Session Title: Qualitative Inquiry in Geography of Religion
Session Convenor: Gustav Novotny, J. E. Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem
Email: Gustav.Novotny@ujep.cz
Session Title: Re-Imagining Places and Landscapes through Walking Practices and Methodologies
Session Convenors: Andrew McClelland (Heseltine Institute,University of Liverpool); Georgina Perryman (Department of Geography, Maynooth University); Joseph Robinson (Department of Geography, Maynooth University)
Session Convenor: Anton Bendarzsevszkij, Pallas Athene Innovation and Geopolitical Foundation
Session Title: Repealing the Eighth
Session Convenors: Karen Till, Gerry Kearns, Claire McGing; Maynooth University
Email: gerry.kearns@mu.ie
Session Convenor: Dr Therese Conway, NUI Galway
Email: therese.conway@nuigalway.ie
Session Title: Small islands’ tourism: socio-environmental challenges and conflicts
Session Convenor: Stefano Malatesta, Elena dell'Agnese, Università degli Studi di Milano, Bicocca (ITALY)
Email: stefano.malatesta@unimib.it
Session Title: Spaces of Memory: Memorialisation, Reconstruction and Democratisation
Session Convenor: Gerry O’Reilly, Dublin City University
Email:gerry.oreilly@dcu.ie
Session Title: Strategic PhDing: All the things you wish you knew when you started your PhD journey
Session Convenor: Louise Sarsfield Collins, GSI Postgraduate and Early Career Network and Maynooth University
Session Convenors: Dino Gavinelli, Matteo Puttilli, University of Milan; University of Florence.
Email: matteo.puttilli@unifi.it
Session Title: Wind energy – bringing the uncertainties into focus
Session Convenor: Cristian Suteanu and Adel Merabet, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
Email: cristian.suteanu@smu.ca
Session Title: Women in Geography
Session Convenors: Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG)
Email contact: Aoife.delaney@mu.ie
Session Title: Youth Migration and Regions
Session Convenors: Krisjane Zaiga, Apsite-Berina Elina, McGarry Orla, University of Latvia, University of Limerick
Email: elina.apsite-berina@lu.lv
Session Convenor : Kim Tuts, Université de Liège – SEGEFA
Email: ktuts@uliege.be