US Fascism has academia in its crosshairs now. The whole point is to terrorize us into silence. I'm still considering going to the #AAG in Detroit, but considering if my financial, intellectual, and emotional labour is better spent elsewhere (e.g. #Palestine). In any case, and I have a call with an immigration US lawyer later today and will decide last-minute. Thankfully I can defer the decision because I don't have expensive flights to rebook.
My department at #UofT is sending announcements to grad students and faculty members who are going to the #AAG in Detroit in a couple of weeks to ask us to register with the safety abroad office, because the USA is a dangerous hostile zone now.
If I end up going, this will likely be the very last time I go to the US in the foreseeable future.
I'm reading this 1956 essay by Carl O Sauer, titled "the education of a geographer". It's a beautiful meditation on the disciplinary incoherence of #geography as a discipline, which was true back then, and is even more true today.
It strikes me is that I only came across the essay a few days ago, and I'm a PhD student in geography.
I feel that every university degree should have a required course about the history of the discipline it studies.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x
It is super weird how the #AAG conference is always held at a different time per year. In the past six years it has varied between January to April. As a Finn who likes orderly things and schedules, it baffles me, and I wonder what the reason is.
I wager it's something fairly ordinary, such as better rates or availability for the venues, but it might also be a peculiarity of American culture that I am not aware of. I have my hopes up for the latter.
Kindly informed by #AAG when will be our #AAG2025 panel/paper in #Detroit #Conference:
The Illusion of the #Web3 #Decentralization:
Distributing Power or Creating a New Tech-Savvy Elite?"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5008910
@ssrn
3/28/2025
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/solicitations/82/sessiongallery/22715 @geography @politicalscience @politicaltheory @economics @publicpolicy @publicpolicyprocess @anthropology
Very glad to see this call for panelists for the next #AAG conference: "Do We Keep Each Other Safe? Organizing Covid-Safer Spaces"
Full call here:
https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/r.f0f7fb651a9cc9450bd9b04fcc77d8f7
![AAG 2025, Detroit, Michigan: Do We Keep Each Other Safe?: Organizing COVID-Safer Counter-Spaces
Type: Panel
Modality: Hybrid [in-person and virtual]
Organizers: Erin Clancy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Hilary Habeck Hunt University of Wisconsin-Madison
More information on the structure and Covid-safer measures of the session is available below the description.
Session Description:
In light of the ongoing and significant harms caused by the COVID pandemic and Long COVID (Griffis 2024a), this panel session seeks participants who remain concerned about the pandemic and engage in community care practices. Those who continue to take precautions engage in radical community care (Monarch 2023; Ringo 2024), an ethic largely left behind by mainstream society in its rush to get “back to normal” following the early years of the pandemic. This panel reaffirms the promise of 2020 – we keep each other safe. We uplift all those who live with the effects of the broader strategized forgetting of this promise and condemn state efforts to obscure evidence (Mateus 2024) and abandon responsibility (Adler-Bolton 2024) for the ongoing harm caused by the virus.](https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/279/724/635/237/261/original/f76d455f3e172fb4.png "AAG 2025, Detroit, Michigan: Do We Keep Each Other Safe?: Organizing COVID-Safer Counter-Spaces
Type: Panel
Modality: Hybrid [in-person and virtual]
Organizers: Erin Clancy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Hilary Habeck Hunt University of Wisconsin-Madison
More information on the structure and Covid-safer measures of the session is available below the description.
Session Description:
In light of the ongoing and significant harms caused by the COVID pandemic and Long COVID (Griffis 2024a), this panel session seeks participants who remain concerned about the pandemic and engage in community care practices. Those who continue to take precautions engage in radical community care (Monarch 2023; Ringo 2024), an ethic largely left behind by mainstream society in its rush to get “back to normal” following the early years of the pandemic. This panel reaffirms the promise of 2020 – we keep each other safe. We uplift all those who live with the effects of the broader strategized forgetting of this promise and condemn state efforts to obscure evidence (Mateus 2024) and abandon responsibility (Adler-Bolton 2024) for the ongoing harm caused by the virus.")
Via @farhanasultana , edited for mastodon-fediverse
For the 2024 #AAG conference:
Be part of the social media #geographers' effort to reduce the #climate impact of its annual meeting. Find out how you can host a local node at your institution. Attend an Information session November 9th at 11am ET: https://forms.office.com/r/3KzZVBqzyu
#AAG2023 American Association of Geographers annual conference
Join us for 8 amazing hybrid sessions on how to tackle ongoing climate-related challenges!
"Confronting Climate Coloniality"
Details of the sessions: https://tinyurl.com/2c6sfaj7
Where: Governors Square 10, Sheraton Hotel + online at AAG website
When: Saturday 3/25 - Sunday 3/26
Great overview of #ethics in #geospatial from #AAG, including how to add ethics into your GIS classes: apps on your phone using your location & satellite imagery https://www.aag.org/locational-information-quick-start-guide/ & related white paper: https://www.aag.org/program/locational-information-and-the-public-interest/ #gischat
Anyone else having trouble registering for AAG? #geography #aag
2nd CFP #AAG2023 
Headed to the AAG annual meeting & looking for a home for your paper? If you're doing work on the geographies of inequality + "Left Behind" Places, we have you covered 
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