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Osnabrück
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New Haven
New Haven
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New Haven
Budapest
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Innsbruck
Innsbruck
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Ankara
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Ankara

2024
21-22 June 2024

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)

2023
13-15 September 2023

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)

2022
5-7 October 2022

Osnabrück Conference

Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Reshaping Economic Geography in Times of Risk, Uncertainty and Crisis

2020
4-8 November 2020

New Haven Conference

Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Blue Economy
Location: Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

2019
2-4 October 2019

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

2018
19-21 July 2018

Innsbruck Austria Conference

Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development: An Economic Geography Perspective

2017
30 March - 2 April 2017

New Haven Conference

Name: IGU Mini-Conference
Theme: Coastal Transitions

2016
22-24 November 2016

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

2015
22-24 October 2015

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

2014
19-20 June 2014

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

2013
11-13 July 2013

Berlin Conference

Name: 2013 Mini-Conference
Theme: Dynamics in Food and Agriculture based Supply Chains
Venue: Berlin, Germany

29 May - 2 June 2013

Leeds Conference

Name: 2013 Residential Conference
Theme: Applied GIS and Spatial Modelling
Venue: Leeds, England

2012
3-5 May 2012

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

2011
19-21 May 2011

Vechta Conference

Name: 2011 Mini-conference
Theme: Globalizing Rural Places
Venue: University of Vechta, Germany

2010
3-7 August 2010

Toledo Conference

Name: 2010 Mini-conference
Theme: Local Food Systems and Old Industrial Regions
Venue: Toledo Hilton

1-3 July 2010

Groeningen Conference

Name: 2010 Mini-conference
Theme: Wellbeing, Innovation and Spatial Transformation
Venue: Groningen, Netherlands

20-22 May 2010

Cologne Conference

Name: 2010 Mini-conference
Theme: Industrial Transition – New Patterns of Production, Work and Innovativeness in Global-Local Spaces
Venue: Schloss Wahn Castle

2009
13-17 July 2009

Perth Conference

Name: 2009 Residential Conference
Theme: The Dynamics of Local Economic Growth
Venue: University of Western Australia

2008
5-8 August 2008

Barcelona Conference

Name: 2008 Residential Conference
Theme: Worlds of New Work? Multi-scalar Dynamics of New Economy Spaces
Venue: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

14-15 May 2008

Oslo Conference

Name: 2008 Mini Conference
Theme: Theoretical Approaches in Labour Geographies
Venue: University of Oslo

2006
27 June - 1 July 2006

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

2005
2-6 August 2005

Toledo Conference

Name: 2005 Residential Conference
Theme: Enterprising Worlds: Entrepreneurship and Ethics for Sustainable Futures
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Toledo

2004
9-13 August 2004

Birmingham Conference

Name: 2004 Annual Residential Conference
Theme: Service Worlds: Employment, Organisations
Venue: Technologies University of Birmingham

2003
11-15 August 2003

Vancouver Conference

Name: 2003 Annual Residential Conference
Theme: New Economic Spaces, New Economic Geographies
Venue: Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver BC

26-28 March 2003

Incheon Conference

Name: 2003 Special Symposium
Theme: E-Commerce, E-Business and the Dynamics of Economic Development
Venue: Songdo Beach Hotel, Incheon, South Korea