AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG)

Please join the EGSG for our early career keynote lecture next week on Wednesday 3/26!

Poster on multicolored background says early career keynote and has a photo of Devika Narayan, University of Bristol, Speaker, with the title and text: 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change: This Keynote examines the impact of a highly concentrated tech sector on firm practices across industries. I intend to answer three questions: 1) What is distinctive about computing technologies today? 2) What is the contemporary structure and organisation of corporate computing? 3) How does this configuration of computing relations alter firm practices? My claim is that digital technology and the tech sector intensifies volatility and chaos in capitalist industries through new forms of abstraction, modularity, and outsourcing. New tools and techniques of rapid experimentation speed up not just expansion and growth but also speed up the interruption of established firm practices. Overall, I contribute a theoretical framing of machinic hyper-flexibility and capitalist logics.' With the date, time, and plate listed as Wednesday 3/26 10.10AM - 11.30AM AAG Annual Meeting 430A, Level 4 Huntington Place Hosted by the Economic Geography Specialty Group

💬 Announcing our #AAG2025 EGSG Early Career Keynote lecture, 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change' to be given by Devika Narayan, with @jamiepeck.bsky.social as discussant.

Hosted by @econgeog.bsky.social
Wednesday 3.26 at 10:10 AM in Detroit!

Come and join us at LSE!

Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography

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Student Travel Award Application This scholarship is to support students of economic geography and is designed to help meet the costs of travel to the annual meetings of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Two travel awa...

🚨 Looking for travel funding to AAG in Detroit next month? The Economic Geography Specialty Group still has two Graduate Student Travel Awards worth $500 each available. Just submit an application through the form by March 8th. Please share widely!

cc: @econgeog.bsky.social

Announcement Awards The AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group makes four annual awards in economic geography, with the results announced each year at the AAG annual EGSG business meeting. Student Travel Awards ...

Awards for graduate students going to the 2025 AAG! Please share far and wide!

Announcement:
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YouTube video by Energy and Environment Specialty Group (EESG, AAG) Spring 2025 Energy Seminar Series: Conor Harrison

ICYMI: Conor Harrison's talk from today is available here. Thanks to all who attended!

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This is today - follow the link below to join us on Zoom.

In this presentation, I explore what it means to have financial actors and institutions guiding change in the electricity sector. Finance, I argue, proves a useful way to the study energy transitions in part because of the industry’s necessity to the construction of electricity infrastructure. Because this infrastructure tends to be long lasting, it is the decisions of financial actors – provide funding for this project or that one – that have an enormous influence on electricity infrastructure, and therefore on the trajectories for current and future life on the planet. More than this, I show how financial firms are engaged in the electricity industry in ways beyond investment – rather there has been a fusion of industrial and financial capital in the sector, with financial firms owning electricity generation infrastructure, trading electricity on markets, capturing federal renewable energy tax credits, and advising on electricity firm operating strategy. I use the case of Winter Storm Uri and the deadly collapse of the Texas electricity grid to begin unraveling monolithic accounts of ‘finance’ through case studies of the workings of private equity, commercial banks, and sell-side equity analysts, and help to make sense of the convoluted patchwork of electricity firms, markets, and forms of regulation that comprise the U.S. electricity sector.

We and the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the AAG are co-sponsoring this talk by Conor Harrison (University of South Carolina): "Brokers of Power: Finance and the Changing U.S. Electricity System."

February 10, 2025 @ 12:30pm ET on Zoom.

Registration: clarku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

EGSG is recruiting 2 at-large board members and one grad student board member. Send nominations to ebner.nina@gmail.com by Feb 1!

This is today at 12:30pm ET. See below for registration details. Over 80 participants registered.

This is next Wednesday - please register if you are interested in learning more about the postdoc experience + job market transitions in human geography.

A poster with details about an event sponsored by the EGSG about getting a postdoc in human geography.

Want to learn more about postdocs? We are hosting a free webinar panel with early career scholars on November 13 @ 12:30pm to 2:00pm ET. Tailored to current postdocs and graduate students in human geography but all are welcome.

Registration: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us! The Economic Geography Specialty Group of @theAAG supports scholars at all stages. We offer programming for established members, early career scholars, and grad students - working to cultivate the next generation of geographers.

See more at www.aag.org/groups/economic-geography/

We are still on Twitter @EGSG_AAG but tune in here for bulletins about upcoming AAG Detroit events, economic geography affairs, and more.