Events

We encourage everyone to join LSG Conference Registration Award Winner Manan Sarupria's hybrid session, "Geospatial Monitoring of Natural and Managed Ecosystems."

This paper session is scheduled for April 16th at 1:20 PM HST in  319B, Third Floor, Hawai'i Convention Center.  More information can be found on the Annual Meeting page and in AAG's Program Gallery.

All LSG members attending the annual AAG meeting are invited to join us to hear about the latest updates, openings on the Exeuctive Committee, and to hear the winners of out annual Photography Competition! The meeting will be held in Virtual 12 on Thursday, April 18th at 12:10 PM HST.  

Those attending the annual meeting are welcome to attend this panel session in which the photographers share the stories behind their photos. This session is open to everyone attending the annual conference and is virtual. Join us on Wednesday, April 17th at 3:00 PM HST in Virtual 11 and take a break from the talks to nurture your artistic side.  Learn more about the Photography Competition.

July through March, AAG is hosting virtual learning series featuring Hawai'ian speakers and perspectives on a broad range of environmental, political, and historical topics including Indigenous ecological knowledge and sovereignty. The recordings and upcoming topics are available online.

The Executive Board is excited for our next event, "What Is Landscape? Highlighting Marginalized Voices in Landscape Research." With this virtual symposium, we strive to diversify and pluralize the landscape canon in geography and beyond. This discussion explores landscape as a social construct, focusing on the unsung perspectives and personal experiences of students and emerging scholars and practitioners from marginalized backgrounds. "What Is Landscape?" is spearheaded by Graduate Student Representative, Albert Roßmeier.  

Date:  

May 15th at 8 AM PDT/11 AM EDT/ 4 PM BST.

Zoom link

Event Recording!

What Is Landscape?

Highlighting Marginalized Voices in Landscape Research

 Traditionally, approaches to landscape, including the agendas of landscape painting, landscape architecture and urban landscape studies, have been dictated by readings of the white, affluent, and cisgender male society from the Global North. This has led to marginalization of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, South Asian, South East Asian, East Asian, LGBTQ+, disabled, and other perspectives. As such, a narrow definition of landscape dominates – in academic and non-academic settings, in planning and in social everyday life.

Within an understanding of landscape as a highly individual perception, construction and experience, this symposium strives to diversify and pluralize the landscape canon in the geographical discipline and beyond. The Landscape Specialty Group (LSG) of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) takes a broad approach to landscape. We want to foster dialogue about the multiplicity of definitions and bring marginalized voices to the forefront. 

Possible topics to be addressed  include (but are not limited to):

• What does landscape mean to you and how do you experience landscape?

• How were you socialized to see landscape?

• Where do you see and practice landscape?

• How does your personal, subjective understanding of landscape connect to your research?

This symposium is FREE. We welcome attendance from anyone as an audience member regardless of career stage, discipline, or AAG or LSG membership. If possible, we kindly request that you register in advance so we may gauge attendance.

The AAG provides multiple webinars and working groups that are open to AAG members and some that are open to the wider public. Topics range from writing workshops, using specific software, building a teaching portfolio, and so forth.