The University of Sydney
Institute of Australian Geographers &
New Zealand Geographical Society
Combined Conference6–9 July, 2021
The University of Sydney
Please note the agenda is of 17/6/21 and any updates will appear on the live conference programhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KPT4pOtEKx1JFCUHhZaim7YcGX0rFy8yJd0l7bOos1Y/edit?usp=sharing
The University of Sydney
Monday 5th July
Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentation
Monday 5th July
TimeAbercrombie Business School
ABS Room 1050Field Trips Madsen Building
10:00am
11:00am Register here for this workshop
ECR Writing workshop organised by the
Critical Development Study Group
Contacts: Fiona Miller, Karen Paiva Henrique,
Krishna Shrestha
12:00pmPost grad afternoon
Organised by the GSNSW, IAG and NZGS
1:00pm
Diverse PhD experiences and post-PhD
pathways1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm Afternoon tea
3:00pm
COVID, Precarity, and the Field
Decolonising conservation in Sydney’s urban
green spaces3:30pm
4:00pm
4:30pm
5:00pm Postgraduate networking drinks
IAG NZGS Pre-conference Program 2021
The University of Sydney
Tuesday 6th July
Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentation
Tuesday 6th July
TimePre-conference activities
Tuesday 6th July
Plenary session
ABS Room 1130 or B2010
10:00-5:00pm IAG Council Meeting
3:40pm Registrations - Foyer
CHAIR Prof Phil McManus, Conference Convenor, The University of Sydney
4:10pm
(10 mins)Welcome to Country: Uncle Allan Murray
4:20pm
(10 mins)
Message stick handover ceremony
Prof Lisa Jackson Pulver, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Strategy and Services, The University of Sydney; Rob
Anders, Aboriginal Education and Strategy Officer, University of Tasmania
4:30pm
(10 mins)Opening: Prof Iain Young, Dean, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney
Co-chairs: Naama Blatman and Dallas Rogers
4:50-5:40pm
(50 mins)
Panel Reimagining urban development panel
Speakers: Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, CEO/MD, Mirvac; Jess Miller, Councillor, City of Sydney; Jenny Leong, Member for
Newtown; Graham Davis-King, Deerubbin Local Aboriginal Land Council Board member; William ‘Smiley' Johnstone,
Deerubbin Local Aboriginal Land Council Strategic Advisor
5:45-6:45pm
(1h)Welcome function and networking
IAG NZGS Conference Program
The University of Sydney
Wednesday 7th July
Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentation
Wednesday 7th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
Arrival tea and coffee
CHAIR
Prof Elaine Stratford*
Tasmania, Editor-in-Chief,
Geographical Research
journal;
Assoc Prof Robyn Bartel,
University of New England
8:30am-
9:20am
(50 mins)
Keynote:
Fay Gale Memorial Lecture
Dr Sophie Webber,
Senior Lecturer in
Geography and ARC
DECRA Fellow
Title: For and against
climate capitalist realism
SESSIONS
(10 mins
change
over)
Concurrent sessions
CHAIR Naama Blatman Stephen Healy Caitlin Buckle
Sarah
Robertson*
VIC
Krishna
Shrestha
Kaya Barry* EU
& Michele Lobo
IAG Film Shorts: Place,
labour and belonging on
screen 1
Infrastructure
Settler
Colonialism 1
Reg. Res. New
Econ Spaces 1
Rethinking
Counterurbani
sation
Urban Soils
Critical App. to
Develop. Geog
1
New and
Emerging
Research in
Cultural
Geography 1
9:30-9:50am
(20 mins)
Amelia Hine: A Millennia of
Seepage, Introduction;
Yanama Budyari Gumada
Research Collective:
Healing Fire;
Katie MaherKatharine
McKinnon
Nick
Osbaldiston
Thomas Lee*
SydneyNeil Argent
Charishma
Ratnam
IAG NZGS Conference Program
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationWednesday 7th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
Jay Gearing & Ben
Rogaly: Workers
(selected chapters);
Jane Dyson & Ross
Harrison: Spirit;
Negar Elodie Behzadi:
Nadirah;
Coal Woman & Pedro F
Neto: Withering Refuge
9:50-
10:10am
(20 mins)
Alistair Sisson Stephen Healy Rana Dadpour Sophie GoschShanil
SamarakooonFreya Croft
10:10-
10:30am
(20 mins)
Rebecca
ClementsMiriam Williams
Natascha
KlockerCecily Maller
Sandra
Barragan
Contreras*
UK
Lara Daley
10:30-
10:50am
(20 mins)
Abby Mellick
Lopes
Rachel
WintertonDavid Kelly
Souvik
Chakraborty*
Melbourne
10:50-
11:10am
(20 mins)
Sarah
Robertson*
VIC
10:50-
11:20am
(30 mins)
Morning tea
CHAIRDr Naama
BlatmanStephen Healy Jo Gillespie Declan Kuch
Karen Paiva
Henrique* &
Fiona Miller
Kaya Barry*
EU & Michele
Lobo
Infrastructure
Settler
Colonialism 2
Reg. Res. New
ES 2
New Directions
in Georgraphy
1
Beyond Tesla
Critical App. to
Develop. Geog
2
New and
Emerging
Research in
Cultural
Geography 2
11:20-
11:40am
(20 mins)
Taylor Coyne Carl GrodachHolly Randell-
MoonDeclan Kuch Isaac Lyne
Michaela
Harris*
Wellington
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationWednesday 7th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
11:40am-
12pm
(20 mins)
Vanessa
WhittingtonAngus Dowell
Jesse
Whitehead*
Auckland
Thomas
Birtchnell
Joyce Wu*
Sydney
Alyssa Ryan*
Otago
12-12:20pm
(20 mins)
Alex Vella*
Sydney
Richard Le
Heron*
Auckland
Omar Elkharouf Theresa HaradaWilliam Young*
NewcastleJoseph Cheer
12:20-12:40
(20 mins)
Ed Challies*
Christchurch Rebecca Cross Bimal Sharma
Jennifer Carter*
Sunshine CoastElena Tjandra
12:40-
1:25pm
(45mins)
Lunch – Foyer
With posters (So you care about
indigenous Scholars?)
Critical
Development
Study Group
meeting
GIScience,
Spatial
Analysis and
Modelling
Study Group
meeting
Health
Geography
Study Group
meeting
Cultural
Geography
Study Group
meeting
Indigenous
Peoples’
Knowledges
and Rights
Study Group
meeting
IAG AGM
CHAIR
Carrie Wilkinson, PhD
Candidate, School of
Geography and
Sustainable Communities,
Faculty of Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities,
University of Wollongong;
Susannah Clement,
Honorary Associate
Fellow, Australian Centre
for Culture, Environment,
Society and Space,
University of Wollongong
Dr Natalie
Osborne,
Lecturer,
Griffith
University
1:25-
2:15pm
(50mins)
Keynote:
Mrs Susan Caldis
PhD Candidate, President,
GTA NSW&ACT
Title: Understanding a
climate emergency in and
through geography
education: What can
geography educators
declare
Keynote:
Dr Naama
Blatman
Urban Studies
Foundation
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
(2020-2023) and
lecturer in urban
geography, The
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationWednesday 7th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
University of
Sydney
Title:
Land Rights 2.0:
Asserting
Aboriginal
assets in the
capitalist urban
economy
SESSIONS
(5 mins
change
over)
Concurrent sessions
CHAIR Daniel Robinson Susan Caldis Rebecca Cross
Susannah
Clement &
Carrie Wilkinson
Fiona MillerKaya Barry* EU
& Michelle DuffyTBC
IAG Film Shorts: Place,
labour and belonging on
screen 2
Indigenous
Legal
Geographies
Geog
Education 1
New directions
in Geography 2
Geographers
Declare Action
Workshop
Critical App.
To Develop.
Geog. 3
New and
Emerging
Research in
Cultural
Geography, 3
(Re)Imagining
and planning
cities
2:20-2:40pm
(20 mins)
Candice Boyd & Elizabeth
Straughan: Posthuman
Landscapes, Introduction;
Lisa Palmer & Susanna
Barnes: Holding Tightly;
Gina Moore & Michele
Lobo: Tidal Choreography;
Maria Rusca: Water at the
Margins;
Vickie Zhang: Drum Village
Primary School & Iqbal
Barkat;
Richie Howitt, Kath
McLachlan, Garima Misra,
Nathan Moulds, Phillip
Osborne & Matalena Tofa:
Losing Ground Holding
Place
Smrithi Talwar*
NZ
Richard Bustin*
UK Grant Walton
This workshop
is an interactive
session to
‘action’ the
‘Climate and
Biodiversity
Emergency
Declaration by
Geographers in
Australia’
launched at the
prior plenary
session.
This workshop
provides an
opportunity to
devise a plan of
Zali Fung Hedda Askland Wenjing Zhang
2:40-3pm
(20 mins)
Emma
Ligtermoet*
WA
Anne Dolan*
Ireland
Garth Cant*
NZKiran Maharjan
Benjamin
Richardson*
Auckland
Laura Roberts
3:3:20pm
(20 mins)Daniel Robinson Allana Kamp
Trivess Moore *
MelbourneVanessa Lamb
Elisabetta
Crovara
Fiona
Robertson
3:20-3:40pm
(20 mins)Rachel Hughes
Alaric Maude*
Adelaide
Juliana
Mansvelt*
NZ
Ayusha
BajracharyaNicolas Guerra
Reazul Ahsan*
TAS
3:40-4pm
(20 mins)Anna Carlson
Nina Scholten
*Germany
George Curry
*France
Duvan Lopez*
Spain
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationWednesday 7th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
activities and
actions to give
life to the
declaration.
What can
you/we/the
discipline/policy
makers do and
how can we
lead, enable,
support, lobby
and assist in
making
desirable
change
happen?
4-4:25pm
(25 mins)Afternoon tea
CHAIR Charishma Ratnam Warrick Fort Susan Caldis Lisa Stafford* Vanessa LambKaya Barry* EU
& Michelle Duffy
The Changing PhD in
Australian Geography
Panel
Response-able
and
collaborative
knowledge in
Indigenous
geographies
Geog
Education 2
Reimagining
the
geographies of
diverse
children and
childhoods
Critical App.
To Dev. Geog.
4
New and
Emerging
Research in
Cultural
Geography 4
4:25-4:45pm
(20 mins)
Ashraful Alam* NZ, Marilu
Melo Zurita, Elaine
Stratford* Tasmania,
Michele Lobo, Susannah
Clement
Sandie Suchet,
Kate Lloyd,
Sarah Wright,
Lara Daley,
Bawaka
Country
Shu Jun Lee*
MelbourneHulya Gilbert
Andrew
McGregor
Kaya Barry*
Denmark
8.40PM
4:45-5.05pm
(20 mins)
Bhiamie
Williamson
Laurie
Chisholm*
Wollongong
MD Badrul
Hyder*
Melbourne
Fiona Miller Tom Roberts
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationWednesday 7th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
5:05-5:25pm
(20 mins)
Arlene
McInherny
Roger Baars*
Kyoto Catherine Volpe
Krishna
ShresthaNina Williams
5:25-5:45pm
(20 mins)Tod Jones
Eyup Artvinli*
Turkey
Amy Walker*
UK
Karen Paiva
Henrique*
WA
Lena Mirosevic*
Croatia
5:45-6:05pm
(20 mins)
Philippa
Chandler TBC
Panel
Discussion
'Where to: Why
children and
Why now'
Lisa Stafford*,
Harriot Beazley
& Wendy Steele
Cuz Potter*
Korea
10 mins
change over
CHAIR
Prof Elaine Stratford*
Tasmania, Editor-in-Chief,
Geographical Research
journal;
Prof Jennifer Carter,
University of the Sunshine
Coast
6:15-7:15pm
(1h)
Keynote:
Wiley Lecture
Prof Lauren Rickards
Co-lead, Climate Change
Transformations research
program, RMIT University
Title: Adapting the
Academy to Climate
Change
Cultural
Geography
Celebration -
Drinks
7:15-8:15pm
(1h)Wiley Welcome function - Foyer
The University of Sydney
Thursday 8th July
Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentation
Thursday 8th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
Arrival tea and coffee
CHAIR Nicholas Lewis
8:30-9:20am
(50 mins)
Keynote:
Prof Regina Scheyvens*
NZ, Professor of
Development Studies at
Massey University
Title: Reimagining South
Pacific Geographies:
How adaptative responses
to the pandemic challenge
dominant narratives of
development in the region.
SESSIONS
(10 mins
change
over)
Concurrent sessions
CHAIR Robyn Bartel Phillip O'NeillAlexandre da
Silva Faustino
Elizabeth
Duncan
Sangeetha
Chandrasheke-
ran
Kaya Barry* EU
& Michelle DuffyLauren Rickards
Space, place and Law
Book Launch and panel
session
Innovation,
Industrialisatio
n and the City,
1
Alternative
Urban
Imaginaries
(AUI). Counter
mapping 1
Embodied
methodologies
: contributions
and challenges
to the field 1
Geographies
of Activism
and
Acquiescence
1
New and
Emerging
Research in
Cultural
Geography 5
Research
under climate
change 1
IAG NZGS Conference Program
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationThursday 8th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
9.30-9:50am
(20 mins)
Panel: Robyn Bartel,
Jennifer Carter, Lee
Godden* Melbourne &
Tom Baker
Thomas Sigler
Rachel
Iampolski &
Marnie Badham
Nicole Gombay*
MontrealLouise Dorignon
Duncan
McDuie-RaMark Tadaki
9:50-
10:10am
(20 mins)
Kirsten Martinus Jan Filmer Blanche Verlie Sara Fuller Alysha FewsterMalcom
Johnson
10:10-
10:30am
(20 mins)
Stuart Gray*
Auckland
Rowena
Butland
Alice McSherry*
AucklandPeta Wolifson George Burdon
Eric Wolff*
Melbourne
10:30-
10:50am
(20 mins)
Nicole Graham Nick Lewis Wendy Steele
Victoria
Radnell*
Melbourne
Amelia Hine Michelle Duffy
10:50-
11:15am
(25mins)
Morning Tea - Foyer
CHAIR Kirsten MartinusRachel
Iampolski
Elizabeth
DuncanJess Mclean
Sangeetha
Chandrasheker-
an
Kaya Barry* EU
& Michelle DuffyLauren Rickards
Innovation,
Industrialisatio
n and the City 2
AUI Counter
mapping 2
Embodied
Method 2
Actually
existing digital
geographies in
the antipodes
(and
elsewhere) 1
Geographies
of Activism
and
Acquiescence
2
New and
Emerging
Research in
Cultural
Geography 6
Research
under climate
change 2
11:15-
11:35am
(20 mins)
Phillip O'NeillAlexandre da
Silva Faustino
Genevieve
Blades
Jennifer
MacdonaldPaula Satizabal
Anna
LeditschkeLauren Rickards
11:35-
11:55am
(20mins)
Ville SantalaAna Lara
Heyns*
Francisco
GelvesMarco Amati
Jane Dyson &
Craig Jeffrey*
VIC
Sarah
B.FaulknerIsabel Cornes
11:55-
12:15pm
(20 mins)
Pauline McGuirk
Augusto
Oyama*
Sao Paolo
Brazil &
Alexandre da
Silva Faustino
Anna Dunn Paul MaginnFebe De Geest*
VIC
Richard Carter-
WhiteCharlotte Jones
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationThursday 8th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
12:15-
12:35pm
(20 mins)
Holly Farley,
Cassie Lynch
and Tod Jones
Shanti
Sumartojo*
VIC
Emily Stevens*
NZNicole Graham
CHAIR
Dr Kirsten Martinus, Senior
Lecturer, The University of
Western Australia
12:35-
1:25pm
(50mins)
Keynote:
Prof Matthew Tonts,
Chair, Environmental
Protection Authority
(Western Australia)
Title: Environmental
Protection and the
Geographies of the Post-
Pandemic Economies
1:25-2:10pm
(45mins)
Lunch – Foyer
with posters (So you
care about indigenous
Scholars?)
Dr Lesley
Crowe-Delaney
PhD - Book
Launch in foyer
Rural
Geography
Study Group
meeting
Economic
Geography
Study Group
meeting
Lunch - Foyer
Urban
Geography
Study Group
meeting
Legal
Geography
Study Group
meeting
Nature Risk &
Resilience
Study Group
CHAIR
Lara Daley and June
Rubis*
Kuala Lumpur
Ryan Jones
Ashraful Alam*
NZ & Donna
Houston
Gillian Gregory Jess Mclean
Sangeetha
Chandrasheker-
an
Jo GillespieAndrew
Burridge
Panel: Speaking from our
places: protocols and
practices acknowledging
who we are and where we
stand in our academic
praxis
Stakeholder
capitalism?
Contesting and
Regulating
‘Moral Money’
in Green and
Social Finance
1
AUI Storying 1
Extractive Act.
Landscape
change 1
Actually
existing digital
geographies in
the antipodes
(and
elsewhere) 2
Geog Activism
3
Legal Geog.
Case St
Border Studies
in Australian
and New
Zealand
Geography 1
2:10-2:30pm
(20 mins)
Lauren Tynan, Libby
Porter, Yvonne Underhill-
Sem* Auckland and
Christine Winter
Nicolas Lewis
Salene
Schloffel-
Armstrong*
Auckland
Stephen
Northey
Bhavna
Middha*
Melbourne
Jathan
Sadowski
Alexandra
McEwan*
QLD
Michael Roche*
NZ
2:30-2:50pm
(20mins)Angus Dowell
Claske
Dijkema*
Switzerland
Nadia Degregori David Bissell
Sangeetha
Chandrasheker-
an
Karly Burch*
Otago
Francis Collins
NZ
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationThursday 8th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
2:50-3:10pm
(20 mins)
Sandeep
Kandikuppa*
San Francisco
Sarah Gelbard*
Montreal
Gisselle Vila
Benites*Adam Moore David Reynolds
Jacob Deem*
QLD
Joshua
Watkins*
Singapore
3:10-3:30pm
(20 mins)Tom Baker
Christina Ergler*
Otago
Ana Estefania
Carballo
Henrietta
McNeill*
ACT
3:30-3:50pm
(20mins)
Ferne Edwards*
Norway
3:30-4pm
(30 mins)Afternoon tea
CHAIR Ryan Jones
Michele Lobo*
Melbourne &
Donna Houston
Gillian Gregory Jess Mclean Bill Pritchard
Tayanah
O'Donnell &
John Carr
Andrew
Burridge
Stakeholder
capitalism?
Contesting and
Regulating
‘Moral Money’
in Green and
Social Finance.
2
AUI Storying 2
Extractive Act.
Landscape
change 2
Actually
existing digital
geographies in
the antipodes
(and
elsewhere) 3
More than
human worlds
Hybridized
Legal Geog.
Border Studies
in Australian
and New
Zealand
Geography 2
4-4:20pm
(20 mins)
John Morris*
UK Inka Santala
Dorothea
Hamilton*
Germany
Kalervo Gulson Tema Milstein
Rebecca
Leshinsky*
VIC
Angela Smith
4:20-4:40pm
(20 mins)
Tim Frewer*
SydneyRachel Walshe
Glenn Banks*
Wellington Sophia German
Robert
Winstanley-
Chesters*
UK
Amelia Thorpe
Phoebe
Everingham,
Andrew Peters
& Freya
Higgins-
Desbiolles
4:40-5pm
(20 mins)Gareth Bryant Ashraful Alam Robyn Mayes Jessica McLean
Chi-Mao Wang*
Taiwan
Jo Gillespie &
Tayanah
O'Donnell
Andrew
Burridge
5-5:20pm
(20 mins)Ryan Jones
Jamie Wang*
Hong Kong
Matthew
Kearnes
Valentina
Carraro*
Europe
Cathy Robinson John Carr
Discussant:
Andrew
Burridge
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationThursday 8th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
5:20-5:40pm
(20 mins)Julian Frundt
Discussant:
Marilu Melo
Zurita
Paulina
Nordström*
Norway
CHAIR
Assoc Prof Fiona Miller
HDR Director
Discipline of Geography
and Planning
Macquarie School of Social
Sciences, Faculty of Arts
5:45-6:35pm
(50 mins)
Keynote*
UK
Prof Uma Kothari
Professor of Migration and
Postcolonial Studies,
University of Manchester
Title: Decolonising
development: stories of
solidarity
7:00pm Conference Dinner (including IAG Awards ceremony) - The Great Hall
The University of Sydney
Friday 9th July
Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentation
Friday 9th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
ABS Room
2060
(Level 2)
Arrival tea and coffee
CHAIR Naama Blatman
8.30am-
9.20am (50
mins)
Keynote:*
Assoc Prof Zoe Todd,
Carlton University,
Canada;
Dr AM Kanngieser,
Marie Curie Research
Fellow in Geography,
Royal Holloway
University, London
Title: Fishy futures:
restor(y)ing fish in the
21st century
SESSIONS
(10 mins
change
over)
Concurrent sessions
CHAIRMarilu Melo Zurita &
Andrew Burridge
Meg Parsons*
NZ & Fiona
Miller Sarah MilneSophia
Maalsen
Nathan
McClintock*,
David Hugill*,
Stéphane
Guimont
Marceau*
Katherine
Gibson
Corrinne
SullivanRobyn Bartel
Facilitators:
Natalie
Osborne,
Donna
Houston and
Ilan Wiesel
IAG NZGS Conference Program
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationFriday 9th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
ABS Room
2060
(Level 2)
Panel: Political
geography
Climate
adaptation
justice in
theory and
practice 1
Rupturing
Nature/Societ
y 1
Disrupting
Housing:
digitalization
and
innovations
in housing
Settler-
Colonial
Urbanisms -
Convergence
s,
Divergences,
Limits Panel
1
Challenging
food futures
Rememberin
g and
reimagining
embodied
geographies
1
Space, Place
& law 1
Roundtable
on
geography
under
‘change
plan’:
experiencing,
adapting to,
and resisting
university
restructuring
9:30-
9:50am (20
mins)
Tom Baker* Auckland;
Alan Gamlen*
Melbourne;
Anoma Pieris*
Melbourne;
Andrew Gorman-
Murray;
Charishma Ratnam;
Douglas Hall* Otago;
Elissa Waters*
Melbourne
Tim Smith Sarah MilneTim White*
UK
Michael
Simpson* UK,
Libby Porter
Milena Bojovic
Lynda
Johnston*
NZ
Robyn Bartel
& Jennifer
Carter
This is a face
to face
session and
will not be
available
online.
9:50-
10:10am
(20 mins)
Ashleigh
Stokes
Jennifer
Atchison
Ian Spangler*
Louisville
Naomie
Léonard* &
Marie-Ève
Drouin
Gagné*,
Montreal;
Tina
Grandinetti*
Melbourne
Amy Lawton &
Nicky
Morrison
Rachel Colls*
UK
Amanda
Kennedy*
QLD
& Cameron
Holley
10:10-
10:30am
(20 mins)
Petra
Tschakert*
WA
Raven
Cretney*
NZ
Pranita
Shrestha
Elora
Raymond*;
Georgia;
Panel
discussion
Jesse RanengGabriel Baker*
NZ Meg Sherval
10:30-
10:50am
(20 mins)
Wendy
Conway-
Lamb* ACT
Sophie Adams Caitlin Buckle
Panel
discussion &
Q&A
Jessica
Lemire
Lee Godden*
Melbourne
10:50-
11:10am
(20mins)
Colin McLeay*
NZ
Daniel
Robinson
10:50-
11:20am
(30 mins)
Morning Tea - Foyer
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationFriday 9th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
ABS Room
2060
(Level 2)
CHAIR Katherine Gibson
Meg Parsons*
NZ & Tim
Smith Sarah Milne
Louise
Crabtree
Nathan
McClintock*;
David Hugill*;
Stéphane
Guimont*
Marceau
Ari Jerrems
Andrew
Gorman-
Murray &
Gordon Waitt
Robyn Bartel
Remembering Food
Security Panel
Climate
adaptation
justice in
theory and
practice 2
Rupture/
Nat/Soc 2
Housing for
human and
non-human
flourishing 1
Settler-
Colonial
Urbanisms -
Convergence
s,
Divergences,
Limits Panel
2
Rememberin
g,
Reimagining
Political
Space 1
Rememberin
g and
reimagining
embodied
geographies
2
Space, Place
& law 2
11:20-
11:40am
(20 mins)
Katherine GibsonClaudia
MuneraBec Pearse Bronwyn Bate
Kyle Mays*,
LA; Naama
Blatman
Sulagna BasuCorrinne
Sullivan
Benno
Fladvad*
Germany
11:40am-
12pm (20
mins)
Bhavya Chitranshi*
New Delhi
Montannia
Chabau-
Gibson
Carina
Wyborn
Louise
Crabtree-
Hayes
Julie Tomiak*,
Ottawa;
James Oscar*,
Montreal
Adam MortonEllen van
Holstein
Chen Li*
Hong Kong
12-
12:20pm
(20 mins)
Anisah MaddenZeenat
MahjabeenRupert Legg
Cameron
McAuliffe
Natchee Blu
Barnd*,
Oregon; Panel
discussion
Ari Jerrems Imogen Carr
12:20-
12:40pm
(20 mins)
Panel discussion
Christina
Griffin*
NZ
Clare Mouat*
WA
Panel
discussion &
Q&A
Matthew Ryan Gordon Waitt
12:10-
1:35pm
(45 mins)
Panel discussionLunch – FOYER with posters (So you care
about indigenous Scholars?)
Heads of
Geography
meeting
Political
Geography
as a potential
Study Group
meeting
Lunch – FOYER with
posters (So you care about
indigenous Scholars?)
CHAIRProf Lauren Rickards,
RMIT University
1:35-
2:25pm
(50mins)
Keynote:
Dr Chantel Carr
ARC DECRA Fellow,
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationFriday 9th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
ABS Room
2060
(Level 2)
School of Geography
and Sustainable
Communities
Title: Repair and care:
Locating the work of
climate crisis
Concurrent sessions
CHAIR Naama BlatmanKatherine
GibsonTBC
Louise
CrabtreeAri Jerrems Dan Penny
Cultural Burning Panel
Bamboo
bridge film &
panel
Climate
Change:
Advocacy,
research and
impacts
Housing for
human and
non-human
flourishing 2
Remembering,
Reimagining
Political Space
2
Mapping
change and
changing
maps
2:25-
2:45pm
(20 mins)
Bhiamie Williamson,
Michael-Shawn
Fletcher*, Lauren
Tynan, Minda Murray &
Q&A
Bamboo
bridge film &
panel:
Katherine
Gibson,
Western
Sydney
University;
Isaac Lyne,
Western
Sydney
University;
Vickie Zhang,
University of
Melbourne
Zoe WangSophie-May
Kerr
Sirma Altun*
IstanbulBill Pritchard
2:45-
3:05pm
(20 mins)
Rajan
Chandra
Ghosh*
NZ
Hector Padilla Riki Scanlan Natasha Pauli
3:05-
3:25pm
(20 mins)
Ilan Kelman #
London via
video
Nicole Cook
Lachlan
Barber*
Hong Kong
Eleanor Bruce
3:25-
3:45pm
(20 mins)
Duvan Lopez
Meneses*
Spain
Joseph Palis*
Philippines
3:45-4pm
(15 mins)Afternoon tea - foyer
Lisa Palmer,
University of
Melbourne
Afternoon tea - foyer
CHAIR
Prof Warwick Murray,
President, New Zealand
Geographical Society
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentationFriday 9th July
Time
Plenary Session
ABS Room 1130 or
B2010
Session 1
ABS Room
1170
Session 2
ABS Room
1150
Session 3
ABS Room
1100
Session 4
ABS Room
1080
Session 5
ABS Room
1060
Session 6
ABS Room
1050
Session 7
ABS Room
1070
ABS Room
2060
(Level 2)
4-4:50pm
(50 mins)
Keynote:
Prof Steven Ratuva
Director and Professor,
Macmillan Brown Centre
for Pacific Studies,
University of
Canterbury, New
Zealand
Title: Weapons of mind
destruction:
Is the neoliberalization
of knowledge crippling
research and
academia?
4:50-5pm
(10mins)
Closing remarks:
Prof Phil McManus
Conference Convenor,
The University of
Sydney
The University of Sydney
Saturday 10th July
Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
The University of Sydney# denotes a video presentation; * denotes an online presentation
Saturday 10th July
Time Field Trip
10:00am
Sydney, We Need to Walk: A fieldtrip with the
Sydney Urban Crew
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
IAG NZGS Post-conference Program 2021