Dear colleagues,
The RGS-IBG Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) would like to invite expressions of interest for sponsored sessions for the RGS-IBG 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place in London at the Society and Imperial College London, and online, from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2026.
The theme for the 2026 Annual Conference, chaired by Professor Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK), is on the theme of Geographies of Inequalities: toward Just Places. You can find out more about the conference theme here: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/chairs-theme.
SCGRG is keen to sponsor sessions that directly relate to the conference theme, as well as make room for a wide range of other issues and topics. We welcome sessions which will be of wide significance and interest to social and cultural geographers, will meaningfully contribute to ongoing debates in social and cultural geography, and demonstrate substantive, methodological or theoretical novelty.
We are particularly interested in proposals exploring the social and cultural construction, reinforcement, and/or resistance of just and unjust places globally, as well as the socio-cultural effects when these places intersect. We encourage diverse epistemological and methodological approaches to social and/or cultural theorisation and problematisation of spaces of inequalities.
Please take note of the guidance for session organisers https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/call-for-sessions-papers-and-posters.
Please submit your expressions of interest for SCGRG sponsorship by 5pm GMT on Friday, 30 January 2026 through: https://forms.office.com/e/u6KdM8WabP
We will endeavour to inform applicants of the outcome by late February 2026.
Questions about SCGRG-sponsored sessions should be directed to the SCGRG conference officer Hanh-An Trinh at t.trinh1@lse.ac.uk.