第四届时间地理学国际会议报名和摘要提交即将截止。具体会议通知附后，要点摘要如下：
注：针对博士生论坛，本次会议优先考虑线下参会者发表；在日程安排允许情况下，本次会议将提供博士生线上（ZOOM）发表机会。同时，本次会议的大会和博士生论坛均将提供线上讨论机会，欢迎各位老师和同学注册报名！
Invitation to
The 4th International Time-Geography Conference
Including a PhD workshop
August 18-21, 2022, Lund University, Sweden
Department of Human Geography, Sölvegatan 10, Lund
Register here: https://bit.ly/3c12smt
Welcome to the 4th International Time-Geography Conference!
The conference offers a unique opportunity to present your research, discuss with interested colleagues, get new insights and deepen your knowledge. Focus of the conference is the time-geographic approach, its development, applications, current state of the art and its prospects.
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.
On August 21 a workshop for PhD students is arranged, with opportunities to present and discuss time-geography related thoughts and approaches.
There is a reception mingle on August 18, and a conference dinner on August 19, both aiming to bring researchers together to discuss time-geography at the spot where the time-geographic approach was evolving.
The deadline for submitting abstracts for presentations to the conference, including abstracts for the PhD workshop, is May 15, 2022. Submit your abstract at:
https://bit.ly/3sPUP8k
The deadline for registering to the conference is June 15, 2022, at:
https://bit.ly/3c12smt
Please circulate this invitation to interested colleagues!
In 2020, fifty years had 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, with a two years delay caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Internationally highly recognized researchers with deep knowledge of time-geography give keynote speeches:
Mei-Po Kwan, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong;
Shih-Lung Shaw, Professor, University of Tennessee, USA;
Harvey J. Miller, Professor, Ohio State University, USA;
Gordon Walker, Professor, Lancaster University, UK;
Yanwei Chai, Professor, Peking University, China;
Martin Dijst, Professor, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg;
Kohei Okamoto, Professor, Aichi University, Japan;
Gunnel Andersson, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden;
Yan Zhang, Associate Professor, Beijing Union University, China;
Åsa Westermark, Senior Lecturer, Jönköping University, Sweden.
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.
Over the years, we have arranged several PhD courses in time-geography and the discussions between the PhD students are always vivid and fruitful. The PhD workshop arranged in the 4th International Time Geography Conference will serve as a forum for PhD students from various countries to meet and get influences in their ongoing work.
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.
The conference is free of charge, but you have to pay for travel and accommodation. The number of participants is limited.
Register for the 4th International Time-Geography Conference on this website:
https://bit.ly/3c12smt
If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact Kajsa Ellegård at:
kajsa.ellegard@liu.se
Most welcome to the 4th International Time-Geography Conference in Lund, August 18-21, 2022!
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
There will be information about accommodation in Lund (and the neighbor city Malmö) later on.
