Wednesday 20 Nov - Friday 22 Nov 2024
8.30am - 4.00pm
University of Waikato Tauranga Campus, 101 Durham Street, Tauranga
Professor Lynda Johnston
$350 - $750
The Norris Ward McKinnon Lecture Series
Fluid Geographies Conference
- Wednesday 20 Nov - Friday 22 Nov 2024
- 8.30am - 4.00pm
- University of Waikato Tauranga Campus, 101 Durham Street, Tauranga
- Professor Lynda Johnston
- lynda.johnston@waikato.ac.nz
- $350 - $750
The Waikato Branch is hosting the biennial New Zealand Geographical Society Conference from 20 – 22 November 2024 at the University of Waikato campus in Tauranga Moana.
Flows and filtrations occur across place, people and geographical knowledge. The conference – held in Tauranga Moana - focuses on fluid geographies from three interrelated viewpoints.
First, the theme acknowledges the importance of watery Aotearoa – ocean, coastlines, rivers, lakes – as we become wetter and wilder due to climate change weather related events.
Second, fluid geographies as a theme acknowledges that people and places are always in flux: socially; environmentally; politically; and, physically. Change, renewal, seeking equity and movement are part of everyday life.
Third, the theme invites critical thinking about geographical knowledge as beyond fixed, bordered and linear understandings of place, location and time.
Professor Lynda Johnston
Research Associate