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- IGU CDES Regional Conference, September 9-11, 2026, Fortaleza, Brazil
"Geographies of Americas in the global context of economic spatial transformation"
Organized by State University of Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil
Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2026.
Call for Papers | Conference Website - Lecture Series: “Navigating Blue Transitions: Temporal, Spatial, Governance Perspectives”
Dates for online lecture: 14 April 2026, 6 pm. (CET), 19 May, 16 June, 7 July, 2026, 6 pm. (CET)
Link to join: https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/digitale-veranstaltungen/zugang-zum-digitalen-hoersaal/zugang-zum-digitalen-hoersaal-ab-14/
Sponsored by the Alfried Krupp Foundation and hosted at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.
Further details - Coastal Transitions IV.Conference, August 25- 27, 2026, Limerick, Ireland
"Beyond Blue Economy: Critical, Practical and Ethical Directions for Coastal Prosperity"
Organized by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2026.
Details and Conference website: https://www.coastaltransitions.org/ - IGU CDES 2026 Conference, May 27-29, 2026, Turku, Finland
"Strengthening Economic Resilience: Geographies of Policies, Knowledge Co-Creation and Industry Transformations"
Organized by Economic Geography Unit, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2026.
Submission: SUBMIT ABSTRACT
Details and Call for Papers
Conference website: IGU-CDES Conference 2026 - Call for abstracts for the sessions of IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces-CDES, C24.09 at the IGU Regional Conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey between 17-21 August, 2026.
IGU CDES invites you to submit your abstract in the following sessions:
- 1. Geographical Dynamics of Circular Economy
- 2. Digitalization and Employment: Challenges for Inclusion and Diversity in the Industry 4.0 New Spatial Configurations
- 3. Dynamics of Entrepreneurship in Different Contexts
Details and submission: https://www.irc2026.org/en/
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Call for Chapter Proposals for "Placing Contemporary Economic Geographies"
Edited by Han Chu - Robert Hassink - Alica Repenning
Published in the International Geographical Union Series on Contemporary Geographies under the auspices of the IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces (IGU CDES).
Abstracts: max. 300 words. Deadline: 15 December 2025
Further details
- Call for Papers: IGU Colombia 2025 Thematic Conference, 27 Oct. - 1 Nov., Santa Marta
IGU CDES Session titles:
- 2. Informal and illegal economies and their territorial configurations
- 12. Economic, environmental and geopolitical dynamics: contemporary challenges
Details can be found at the following link: https://www.ugi2025colombia.com/thematic-sessions/
XX Meeting of Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean (XX EGALC)
From June 16 to 20, 2025, Prof. Dr. Edilson Pereira Júnior (IGU CDES Steering Committee member) participated in the XX Meeting of Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean (XX EGALC), held at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. The conference was attended by more than 500 participants from 20 countries. Representing IGU CDES, the professor moderated thematic panels, participated in international meetings, presented abstracts, and published a book entitled "Geographies of Political Economy in Latin America."
Website: https://egalc2025.unam.mx/
IGU CDES at the 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography
The 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography was held in Worcester (USA) from 4-8 June 2025. The event was attended by the Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces and several members of its Steering Committee, who celebrated the 100th anniversary of the journal Economic Geography with hundreds of participants. The journal was founded at Clark University in 1925 and has been published there ever since. Several sessions of the conference dealt with the development of the world's leading economic geography journal.
Website: https://gceg.org/
- IGU CDES 2025 Conference - Geopolitical Turbulences, Environmental Challenges and the Reconfiguration of Economic Spaces
Organized by Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Adam Mickiewicz University. Poznań, Poland, September 16-18, 2025
Call for Papers | Conference website
- Call for Papers: IGU Egypt 2025 Thematic Conference 12-19 April, Cairo
IGU CDES Session title: Dynamics of Economic Spaces in Africa and Arab Countries
Sub-themes:- Africa and Arab countries in global production networks
- Industry 4.0 technologies in the dynamics of economic spaces
- Sustainable economic development in Africa and Arab countries: challenges and possibilities
- Book presentation, Author-Meets-Readers: Theory and Explanation in Geography by Distinguished Professor Henry Yeung (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore till end Dec 2024). The hybrid event will take place at the Faculty of Geography, in the „George Vâlsan” Amphitheater (5-7 Clinicilor St., Cluj-Napoca), starting at 16:00 (local time), 27 November, 2024. More
- Economic Geography - Seminar for young researchers held by Distinguished Professor Henry Yeung (Chinese University of Hong Kong). The event will take place at the Faculty of Geography, in the „George Vâlsan” Amphitheater (5-7 Clinicilor St., Cluj-Napoca), starting at 16:30 (local time), 26 November, 2024. Further details
Prof. Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, the former member of the Steering Committee of IGU CDES celebrated his 70th birthday in October, which also marked the end of his 47 years' employment at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
For many years, Prof. Stryjakiewicz was the member (at that time called 'full member') of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Industrial Change (1990-1992) and the IGU Commission on the Organisation of Industrial Space (1992-2000), and then a corresponding member of their successor - the IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces. On the occasion of the anniversary, a solemn ceremony was held at his alma mater, during which he was awarded a medal "Homini Vere Academico" in recognition of his service to the University.
- IGU C.09: Dynamics of Economic Spaces (CDES) sessions at 35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
Website: https://igc2024dublin.org- IGU CDES 2024 Conference, Organized by Peking University, Asia in the Transforming Global Economy. Beijing, China, June 21 - 22, 2024
Call for Papers
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dev Nathan (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, WITS University, Johannesburg ; Institute for Human Development, Delhi ; The New School for Social Research, New York ; GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Gurgaon)
Prof. Chun Yang (Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Godfrey Yeung (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore)- IGU CDES 2023 Conference - Rethinking the Economic Geography of Smaller Urban Places: Transformation and Well-Being in Small and Medium-Sized Towns, September 13 to 15, 2023 in Bern, Switzerland. Website | Call for Papers
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Carlotta Fioretti (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Dr. Jörn Harfst (University of Graz)
Dr. Monika Litscher (Swiss Association of Cities)- Coastal Transitions III Re-imaging Coastal Transitions: Diverse Blue Economies, November 8th to 10th, 2023.
Website | Call for Papers
- 35th International Geographical Congress – Dublin, Ireland, 24-30 August 2024
- Robert Hassink, Chief-Editor of Progress in Economic Geography at Elsevier: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/progress-in-economic-geography
- IGU CDES Report for 2021-2022
- Conference Programme Released: IGU CDES Osnabrück Mini Conference 2022
- Call for Papers Extended: IGU CDES Osnabrück Mini Conference 2022
- Relaunch Announcement of the Journal: “ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography”
- Call for Papers: October 5-7, 2022 IGU CDES Osnabrück Conference: Reshaping Economic Geography in Times of Risk, Uncertainty and Crisis
- Call for Applications to the Inaugural NARSC/NERSA Summer School: “An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Plans for New York City’s Waterfront”
- Call for Applications to the Inaugural NARSC/NERSA Summer School
- Summer School for Young Planners and Regional Developers on “Sustainable Futures for the Baltic Sea Region”
- IGU CDES Report for 2019-2020
- Programme: IGU CDES 2020 New Haven Conference ‘Coastal Transitions: Blue Economy’
- The new board members of steering committee of IGU CDES for the period 2020-2024 were made up and approved by the IGU General Assembly
- Special Issue on “Industry 4.0 in Economic Geographical Approach” has been published in the Journal of Hungarian Geographical Bulletin based on the IGU-CDES Budapest Conference
- IGU CDES 2020 New Haven Conference
- Call for Papers: IGU CDES New Haven 2020 Mini-Conference on “Blue Economy”
- IGU CDES Report 2018-2019
- New book titled “Agritourism, Wine Tourism and Craft Beer Tourism“ edited by Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian and Neil Reid was published as part of the Dynamics of Economic Space Book Series
- New book titled “Better Spending for Localizing Global Sustainable Development Goals “ edited by Fayyaz Baqir, Nipa Banerjee and Sanni Yaya was published as part of the Dynamics of Economic Space Book Series
- Programme: IGU CDES 2019 Budapest Conference
- IGU CDES 2019 Budapest Conference Website: http://igu-cdes-2019.mtafki.hu/
- Call for Papers: IGU CDES 2019 Budapest Mini Conference on Rethinking Economic Geography in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revoluation
- New book titled “Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability“ edited by C. Patrick Heidkamp and John Edward Morissey was published as part of the Dynamics of Economic Space Book Series
- Call for Papers: IGU Colombia 2025 Thematic Conference, 27 Oct. - 1 Nov., Santa Marta