Economic Geography Research Group

The Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) invites expressions of interest and proposals for sponsored sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025.

The Chair of the 2025 conference is Professor Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK). The conference theme is Geographies of creativity/creative geographies. See guidance on organising sessions.

The EGRG is able to sponsor some sessions in the conference schedule that will be guaranteed to be non-concurrent. The EGRG will support sessions on any topic that includes consideration of economic questions (broadly defined), and in particular sessions that display a clear empirical, theoretical, and/or methodologically engagement with the conference theme.

Given the theme of the 2025 conference, we would also strongly encourage organisers to consider creative session formats and strategies for engaging session participants and audiences.

Sessions will be limited to TWO timeslots in the programme. The timeslot is 1 hour 40 minutes. Please note that the conference only has very limited capacity for hybrid sessions, which will be allocated on a competitive basis.

The deadline for session proposal submissions to the EGRG is Monday 17 February 2025. Final session proposals, including registered participants, are due to the RGS-IBG by Friday 7 March 2025.

Please email submissions to Carlo Inverardi-Ferri at c.inverardi-ferri@qmul.ac.uk and Liam Keenan at Liam.Keenan1@nottingham.ac.uk

Include:

• Session title;
• An abstract (max 400 words);
• Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the session convenor(s);
• The anticipated format of the session.
• Please also indicate if you are applying or intend to apply for sponsorship with any other Research Group.