The IGU Commission on Political Geography pre-conference ahead of the IGC 2024 in Dublin, was held at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland 22-24 August 2024. The pre-conference gathered almost 100 participants, from almost every continent and over 20 different countries. A rich programme of sessions included papers from scholars at every career stage from graduate students to emeritus professors, and showed the vibrancy of the sub-discipline internationally.
We are grateful to all those whose efforts made the pre-conference such a success, from presenters, to session chairs, to sponsors. Environment and Planning C generously sponsored the Keynote address by Professor Anna Secor. Geopolitics sponsored a postgraduate prize, which was won by Simon Wellisch and Songmin Liang of the National University of Singapore, and their paper: “Drawing China: Negotiations of Geopolitics in Online Communities”. The Royal Geographical Society Political Geography Research Group and Northern Ireland branch paid for a drinks reception and for three postgraduate bursaries. Finally, hospitality was provided by the Queen’s University Belfast Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, and the School of the Natural and Built Environment.
Please find the final programme and list of abstracts below:
Organising Committee: Jonathan Harris, Merav Amir, Oliver Dunnett, Tristan Sturm
Scientific Committee: Virginie Mamadouh (co-chair), Adriana Dorfman (co-chair), Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary, Alun Jones, Fiona McConnell, Julien Mercille, June Wang, Chih Yuan Woon
IGU Commission on Political Geography 