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Welcome to RGS-IBG AC25!

We have an exciting lineup of 14 (co-)sponsored session over the next few days, as well as our Annual Lecture & Reception. Join us for conversations across a broad range of topics intersecting the digital.

Please check ExOrdo for locations/timings.

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August 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We warmly invite you to the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture at @rgsibg.bsky.social AC25 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’
August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Not long until our RGS pre-conference event: Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World!

Featuring workshops + a keynote from @olimould.bsky.social
Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons.

Register: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
August 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Session 3 is a sonic exploration of a city in transformation, led by Holly Gowland (@unibirmingham.bsky.social). Through a series of spatial compositions, field recordings, and performance, the concert captures the evolving acoustic environments of Birmingham, presenting a tapestry of sounds.
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Session 2 is an interactive exploration of the University of Birmingham campus through a location-based narrative-style game, led by Dr @jackalowe.bsky.social (University of West of England). 'Pin the Tale' is a location-based game about connecting with the world around you through stories.
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Session 1 is a screening & discussion of the ‘AI in the Street: Drone Observatory’, a short film created & directed by Dr @thaophan.bsky.social (Australian National University) & Jeni Lee. We will be joined online by Thao to discuss their work & the creative practices behind producing the film.
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
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June 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We're now having a very rich discussion between the panel speakers thinking about overlapping themes and interests including conceptualisations of space, bodies, and scales of power

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June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Next is Norma Möllers discussing state violence, digital & infrastructural practices via a focus on privatisation of data extraction in spaces of policing, borders, and war. Norma asks the question about the future of just data in a context of eroding digital sovereignty & racism
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June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Drawing on his work thinking about space @samkinsley.uk proposes a way of thinking in/with space for digital geographers. Sam argues for a pluralistic approach to spacings and understanding how spatial vocabularies & grammars are used: as verb, metaphor, physical imaginary, & more #DGRGSymposium2025
June 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Next is Mirjam de Bruijn presenting on African Mobile Communities & discusses a range of processes she researches including Cameroonian mobile societies, e-mobilisation in Chad, & e-conflict in West Africa. Such mobilisation of people occurs within the digital beyond the state

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June 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
First speaker is @azadehakbari.bsky.social discussing Authoritarian Smart Cities focusing on the politics of smart cities via digital development dilemma and authoritarianism. Tech is evolving but securitisation continues & we must consider discourse, practices, infrastructures
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June 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Next Oren Yiftachel and Rani Mandelbaum present Smart and/or Just Metropolis? Stratified Digital Citizenship in Beersheba. They are exploring how digitalisation challenges ideas of the just city via data, infrastructure, economic-social, power/politics.
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June 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Tom Nairns presents on Placing Africa along China’s Global Development Trajectory: From the Belt and Road Initiative to Chinese Platform Capitalism. Arguing maps tend to show romanticised continuity of the Belt & Road initiative from the Silk Road but is now more Africa-leaning
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June 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Next Next Qinyu Feng presents Hybrid Territorialism: Spatial Differentiation and Digital Control in China’s Surveillance System. China's surveillance system is shown as a multi-scalar, socio-technical assemblage that spans physical and digital spaces with spatial reorganisation

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June 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This afternoon Max Münßinger discusses Rethinking Embeddedness? Limits to the Regulations of Digital Capitalism In a review of literature Max shows researcher tendency to territorialise abstract ideas of global digital capitalism through ideas of embeddedness #DGRGSymposium2025
June 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Anton Pascual presents Analysis of the 19th Congress of the Philippines Through Digital Tools. Anton examines legislative hearings & actions via Natural Language Processing showing government concerns e.g health & education but no mention of corruption raising questions on action

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June 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Next Ayşe Gizem Kılıç and Fatih Eren with their presentation 'Spatial Reflection of Immigrant Density on Digital Platforms and Its Effects on Urban Planning' which discusses how digital platforms shape the spatial traces of immigrant populations and regional development #DGRGSymposium2025
June 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Omer Ozturk discusses Kill Switch as a Geopolitical Technique: Power, Disruption, and Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Infrastructure. Kills switches are strategic interruption & preventive e.g. Starlink in Ukraine. Raising questions on who decides how & when infrastructure works
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June 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Next, Batel Yossef Ravid and Erez Tzfadia give the presentation 'Rescaling Digital Sovereignty: Digital Technologies and the Politics of Territory in Unrecognized Bedouin Villages'. They look at digital displacement and sumud in unrecognised Bedouin villages and politics of territory. #DGRGSymposium
June 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Next Katrina Gaber discusses Online bordering: (Re)creating national borders in digital spaces. Examining how differing policies during Covid-19 from Sweden and Finland created tensions which materialised in online discussions and redrew social borders creating bottom up bordering
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June 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Our second day of #DGRGSymposium2025 was begun this morning by our fantastic keynote - Iginio Gagliardone with his talk 'Digital sovereignty and networked sovereignty. A perspective from Africa'
June 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Next up we've got @ronene.bsky.social with his presentation 'Digital Borderlands: Technological Transformation and Territorial Politics in Divided Jerusalem' discussing how Jerusalem's implementation of digital systems
and practices for urban governance
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June 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In session 2:1 Anu Masso is presenting on Social Data Migration: Conceptualising Transborder Data Flows as Processes of Social Transformation. Anu proposes the concept social data migration to better understand technical, economic, political, & socio-cultural dynamics
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June 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
First up in this session, we’ve got Pauline Baudens, with her presentation ‘Reshaping of Women’s Mobility in Highly Constrained Urban Contexts’ discussing how women’s spatial practices are reshaped by the digital, and how experiences of empowerment are shaped by the digital #DGRGSymposium2025
June 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM