Below is a list of panels I select from the programme of this year’s AAG (Association of American Geographers) Annual Conference. Those who do research on/ through the following keywords may be of interests on this list: comparative urbanism, China/ East Asia, rights, territory, state space, mobilities, modernity, David Harvey, and other critical urban theories/ theorists.

It will be great if you could join me to audit (some of) these panels and then further our discussions in the evening drinking sessions! lol

4.21 Tue

1142 Geography and EP Thompson
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Regency A, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Kathryn Wells)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21296

1162 Mobility Transitions 1
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in McCormick, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Tim Cresswell)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21590

1140 Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Hong Kong, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Ananya Roy)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21635

1245 Thinking the Urban from….(I) comparative experiments
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21645

1445 Thinking the Urban from….(II) relations
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 12:40 PM – 2:20 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21646

1436 CITY Debates: (Re)defining the urban and the question of social justice.
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 12:40 PM – 2:20 PM in Water Tower, Hyatt, West Tower, Bronze Level (Organised by CITY and Alex Schafran; panelists inc. M. Storper)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22053

1545 Thinking the Urban from….(III) elsewhere
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 2:40 PM – 4:20 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21644

1645 Thinking Cities from….(IV) distinctive theorisations?
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 4:40 PM – 6:20 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21554

4.22 Wed

2145 The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond (1)

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Hyun Bang Shin)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21229

2245 The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond (2)

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Hyun Bang Shin)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21230

2445 The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond (3)

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Hyun Bang Shin)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21310

2521 Outcast Cities III: Spatial Strategies of/against Displacement

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Grand B, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organisers: Asher Ghertner)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22442

2508 Mobilities and Spatial Modernity in Contemporary China-2

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Skyway 282, Hyatt, East Tower, Blue Level (Organisers: Su Xiaobo and Zhu Hong)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22921

2522 Author-Meets-Critics: David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Grand C/D North, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21580

2621 Outcast Cities IV: Theorizing the Urban Beyond Displacement

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Grand B, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organisers: Asher Ghertner; introduction by Gareth Jones)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22452

2675 Place, politics and the declining city

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Lucerne 3, Swissôtel, Lucerne Level (Inc: Jamie Peck’s prst)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21151

4.23 Thu

3105 Revisiting Entrepreneurialism: the logics of urban governance in systemic crisis (1)
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Skyway 272, Hyatt, East Tower, Blue Level (Organised by Clark scholars)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21287

3257 Marxist geography 1: Use and critique of David Harvey’s work
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Addams, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Jamie Gough; focusing on Harvey’s works)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22672

3245 The Value of Capitalist Natures III: Life, Waste, Finance
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Kelly Kay)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21432

3445 The Value of Capitalist Natures IV: Future Directions
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Kelly Kay)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21433

3442 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture: Ananya Roy, “What is Urban About Critical Urban Theory?”
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency A, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21816

3457 Marxist geography 2: Nature, economy, employment
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Addams, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Jamie Gough; inc. K. Cox’s prst)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22675

3557 Marxist geography 3: Harvey, capitalism, technologies and nature
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Addams, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Jamie Gough)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22678

3549 The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography: “The right to work, and the right at work” – Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Crystal B, Hyatt, West Tower, Green Level (By Jamie Peck)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21441

3675 Current Events Roundtable: The Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Lucerne 3, Swissôtel, Lucerne Level (Organiser: A. Murphy and G. Lin)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=23813

2015 AAG IJURR Lecture

is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Crystal B, Hyatt Regency, West Tower, Green Level

This year the IJURR Lecture will be given by Nik Theodore, and is entitled: Subject Spaces: The Ethics of Co-producing Urban Research.

4.24 Fri

4150 On Stuart Hall

is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Crystal C, Hyatt, West Tower, Green Level (Organiser: Sharad Chari)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22571

4418 Tuan’s Next Generation: Modern scholarship influenced by the iconic geographer
is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Columbus IJ, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22368

4542 Territory, Politics, Governance Annual Lecture – Bob Jessop
is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Regency A, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=23491

4658 Cities of Tomorrow: In Honor of Peter Hall II
is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Burnham, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Chaired by Erica Schoenberger; panelists inc. M. Castells and M. Storper)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21241

4.25 Sat

5126 Cases, spaces and situations I
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Grand Suite 3, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Murray M. Low)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21339

5161 Migration in China (I): The Social and Cultural Impact

is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Horner, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organisers: Huang Youqin and He Shenjing)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21195

5226 Cases, spaces and situations II
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Grand Suite 3, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Murray M. Low)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21340

5237 Grounding Knowledge, Assembling Policies II – Urban policy circulations in the Global South
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Wrigley, Hyatt, West Tower, Bronze Level (Organiser: Gabriel Silvestre and Luis Regis Coli)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21679

5461 Contesting Urban Space in East Asia: Recasting Neoliberalism upon Housing
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 2:00 PM – 3:40 PM in Horner, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organisers: Hyun Bang Shin and Asato Saito)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21496