IGU CDES 2025 Annual Conference will be held at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, September 24-26.
CDES Conferences
Photos from past conferences
Beijing Conference
Name: IGU CDES Conference
Theme: Asia in the Transforming Global Economy
Location: Beijing, China
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dev Nathan (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, WITS University, Johannesburg ; Institute for Human Development, Delhi ; The New School for Social Research, New York ; GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Gurgaon)
Prof. Chun Yang (Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Godfrey Yeung (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Bern Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Rethinking the Economic Geography of Smaller Urban Places:
Transformation and Well-Being in Small and Medium-Sized Towns
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Carlotta Fioretti (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Dr. Jörn Harfst (University of Graz)
Dr. Monika Litscher (Swiss Association of Cities)
Osnabrück Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Reshaping Economic Geography in Times of Risk, Uncertainty and Crisis
New Haven Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Blue Economy
Location: Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Budapest Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Rethinking Economic Geography in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revoluation: Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship, Employment and Industry 4.0
Innsbruck Austria Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development: An Economic Geography Perspective
New Zealand Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: New Resource Geographies
Local Organizier: Prof. Michael Roche, School of People Evironment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand
Ankara Conference
Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Local and Regional Development in Emerging Economic Geographies
Local Organizer: Dr. Nuri Yavan, Ankara University, Department of Geography, Turkey
Amsterdam Conference
Name: 2014 Mini-Conference
Theme: Globilisation & New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth
Venue: Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Berlin Conference
Name: 2013 Mini-Conference
Theme: Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Leeds Conference
Name: 2013 Residential Conference
Theme: Applied GIS and Spatial Modelling
Venue: Leeds, England
Kraków Conference
Name: 2012 Mini-Conference
Theme: Innovation & Creativity in Emerging Economic Spaces: Local Entrepreneurship & Transnational Corporations
Venue: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Commission Conference Scholarship Awards: Young Scholars - OR - Students
Vechta Conference
Name: 2011 Mini-conference
Theme: Globalizing Rural Places
Venue: University of Vechta, Germany
Toledo Conference
Name: 2010 Mini-conference
Theme: Local Food Systems and Old Industrial Regions
Venue: Toledo Hilton
Groeningen Conference
Name: 2010 Mini-conference
Theme: Wellbeing, Innovation and Spatial Transformation
Venue: Groningen, Netherlands
Cologne Conference
Name: 2010 Mini-conference
Theme: Industrial Transition – New Patterns of Production, Work and Innovativeness in Global-Local Spaces
Venue: Schloss Wahn Castle
Perth Conference
Name: 2009 Residential Conference
Theme: The Dynamics of Local Economic Growth
Venue: University of Western Australia
Barcelona Conference
Name: 2008 Residential Conference
Theme: Worlds of New Work? Multi-scalar Dynamics of New Economy Spaces
Venue: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Oslo Conference
Name: 2008 Mini Conference
Theme: Theoretical Approaches in Labour Geographies
Venue: University of Oslo
Auckland Conference
Name: 2006 Residential Conference
Theme: Globalising worlds: Geographical perspectives on old and new value chains, commodity chains and supply chains
Venue: University of Auckland
Toledo Conference
Name: 2005 Residential Conference
Theme: Enterprising Worlds: Entrepreneurship and Ethics for Sustainable Futures
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Toledo
Birmingham Conference
Name: 2004 Annual Residential Conference
Theme: Service Worlds: Employment, Organisations
Venue: Technologies University of Birmingham