Invitation to
The 4th International Time-Geography Conference
August 19-21, 2020, Lund University, Sweden
Department of Human Geography, Sölvegatan 10, Lund
Register here: http://ow.ly/DJo350xPTQy
Welcome to the 4th International Time-Geography Conference!
The conference offers a unique opportunity for you to present your research, discuss with interested colleagues, get new insights and deepen your knowledge. Focus for the conference is the time-geographic approach, its development, applications, current state of the art and its future.
We welcome researchers, teachers and PhD students from different disciplines in the international scientific society and hope that the conference will serve as a generative force for furthering time-geographic thinking globally and over generations.
The program (preliminary program in the attached pdf) includes keynote speeches, participants’ presentations, vibrant discussions and a city walking tour. The city tour will make the participants familiar with the urban environment where Professor Torsten Hägerstrand developed his original ideas, grounding for time-geography.
There is a reception mingle on August 19, and a conference dinner on August 20.
The deadline for submitting abstracts for presentations is April 15, 2020. Submit your abstract at http://ow.ly/VcHZ50xQRs6
The deadline for registering to the conference is May 31, 2020, at http://ow.ly/DJo350xPTQy
Please circulate this invitation to interested colleagues!
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In 2020, fifty years have passed since Professor Torsten Hägerstrand published the first international journal article on time-geography, “What about people in regional science” (Papers of the Regional Science Association, Vol XXIV 1970). Researchers in various disciplines still frequently cite it. Since 1970, time-geography has spread globally and inspires researchers in a variety of research fields today.
The 4th International Time-Geography Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Hägerstrand’s 1970 article and internationally highly recognized researchers with deep knowledge of time-geography give keynote speeches: Professors Mei-Po Kwan, University of Illinois, USA; Shih-Lung Shaw, University of Tennessee, USA; Harvey J. Miller, Ohio State University, USA; Gordon Walker, Lancaster University, UK; Yanwei Chai, Peking University, China; Yoshio Arai, Teikyo-University, Japan; Martin Dijst, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg; and Kohei Okamoto, Nagoya University, Japan; Associate Professors Gunnel Andersson, FoU Södertörn, Sweden; and Yan Zhang, Beijing Union University, China; and Senior Lecturer Åsa Westermark, Jönköping University, Sweden. Professor Sture Öberg, Uppsala University, Sweden, will give an overview of time-geography in science and society 1970-2020.
The 4th International Time-Geography Conference will be arranged at Lund University, where Hägerstrand held his professorship and worked until his death 2004. The conference will focus on achievements in time-geography in the past, on current research and on ideas and prospects for the future development of the approach. At the end of his research career, Hägerstrand directed his thinking towards environmental problems, their relation to social issues and the opportunities for humans to handle problems caused by their own activities. Climate change, rapid urbanization and gentrification, segregation, new technologies (ICT, AI, self-driving cars) health and wellbeing, exemplify fields of increasing importance for time-geographic research. These fields claim for actions and engagement, on a structural level with new policies, laws and rules, and at the individual level with needs for changes in everyday life routines. The time-geographic approach offers a palette of methods and concepts that provide guidance in better understanding how to deal with these fundamental developments and issues of the future.
The 4th International Time-Geography Conference is hosted by Human Geography, Lund University in collaboration with the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, and Theme Technology and social change, Linköping University. The organizing committee members are Professor Tomas Germundsson, Human geography, Lund University; Professor Jenny Palm, IIIEE, Lund University; and Professor Kajsa Ellegård, Linköping University.
In direct connection with the conference there is a PhD course on Time-Geography, and if you are interested in participating in this course, please contact Associate Professor Eva Thulin, Human Geography, Gothenburg University (eva.thulin@geography.gu.se)
The conference is free of charge, but you have to pay for travel and accommodation. Please find hotel recommendations below.
Register for the 4th International Time-Geography Conference on this website:
If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact Kajsa Ellegård at kajsa.ellegard@liu.se.
Mostly welcome to the 4th International Time-Geography Conference in Lund, August 19-21, 2020!
Best wishes on behalf of the organization committee
Professor Kajsa Ellegård
Organization committee: Professor Kajsa Ellegård, Linköping University, kajsa.ellegard@liu.se; Professor Tomas Germundsson, Lund University, tomas.germundsson@keg.lu.se; Professor Jenny Palm, Lund University, jenny.palm@iiiee.lu.se
List of accommodations
This list is for accommodation in Lund. Not far from Lund is Malmo, the third biggest town in Sweden (about 15 minutes by train to Lund). In Malmö the prize is generally lower. At the end of the list there is a link to a webpage with accommodations in Malmö.
Hostel: https://www.winstruphostel.se/sv-SE
Forenom (apartment hotel): https://www.forenom.com/sv/lagenhetshotell/lund/
Lilla Hotellet: http://lillahotellet.com/sv/
Hotel Bishops Arms: https://www.bishopsarms.com/Lund_(Hotel_Bishops_Arms)_
The More Hotel Lund: https://www.themorehotel.se/hotell-lund/
Best Western Plus Hotell Nordic Lund: http://nordiclund.se/
Hotell Concordia: https://www.concordia.se/
Radisson Blu Hotel Lund: https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-lund
Hotel Finn: https://hotelfinn.se/
Elite Hotel Ideon: https://www.elite.se/sv/hotell/lund/hotel-ideon
Hotel Lundia: https://www.lundia.se/sv/default.html
Grand hotel Lund: https://www.grandilund.se/sv/home.html
Clarion Collection Hotel Planetstaden: https://www.nordicchoicehotels.se/hotell/sverige/lund/clarion-collection-hotel-planetstaden
Webpage link with accommodations in Malmö:
Kajsa Ellegård, PhD
Professor
Books on time-geography:
Kajsa Ellegård (2019) “Thinking Time Geography – Concepts, Methods and Applications” Routledge. Free download on: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351330381
Kajsa Ellegård (Ed 2019) “Time Geography in the Global Context”, Routledge. Free download on: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351330411