The American Association of Geographers 2023 Annual Meeting will take place March 23-27, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. We’re eager to continuing to build a curious, creative, and diverse community of geographers, and invite all interested individuals to participate in our future programming both within and outside the annual meeting.
Cultural Geography Specialty Group
2023 Keynote Session
Stardew Valley is a role-playing and farm simulator video game released by sole creator Eric Barone (online alias ConcernedApe) in 2016. This paper aims to apply an infrasecular (della Dora 2018) lens to the analysis of sacred spaces in Stardew Valley. Della Dora’s (2018) work on infrasecularity stresses the layered nature of sacred spaces. Different belief systems may be present in a single sacred space that interact with each other over time. This paper analyzes the game’s magical ritual spaces, as well as spaces dedicated to reverence of in-game deity “Yoba.” Methods include auto-ethnography, narrative analysis, and content analysis.
Cultural Geography Specialty Group Business Meeting
Hybrid Delivery – In-person and Virtual Participation Available
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Sunday March 26th | 11:45AM – 12:45PM
Tower Court D, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Second Level
Cultural Geography Specialty Group Social
Hosted by the CGSG Graduate Student Representatives
Sunday March 26th | 4:15PM
Yard House at the Sheraton Downtown Denver
AAG 2023 CGSG Sponsored Sessions
A sincere thank you to session organizers and chairs for their organizing and recruitment efforts for this year’s meeting. On behalf of the Cultural Geography Specialty Group, we are honored to serve as a session sponsor and support you and your participants through this year’s meeting. We look forward to your continued engagement with CGSG and consideration for session sponsorship at future meetings. For questions regarding CGSG programming, contact Program Director Josh Merced at jzmerced@uncg.edu.
- Thursday March 23rd
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Equitable Futures for Geographies of Memory and Heritage 1: Nation and Memory
Capitol Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor - Hazards or Vulnerability? Shifting boundaries between physical and cultural geography through Disaster Research 1
Centennial Ballroom F, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Equitable Futures for Geographies of Memory and Heritage 1: Nation and Memory
- 10:20AM – 11:40AM
- Equitable Futures for Geographies of Memory and Heritage 2: Bodies and Museums
Capitol Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor - Geographies of Refuge & Resettlement in the United States I (in-person)
Denver, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Mezzanine Level - Hazards or Vulnerability? Shifting boundaries between physical and cultural geography through Disaster Research 2
Capitol Ballroom 3, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor
- Equitable Futures for Geographies of Memory and Heritage 2: Bodies and Museums
- 12:50PM – 2:10PM
- 2023 Distinguished Historical Geographer Lecture – Daniel D. Arreola: The Mexican Restaurant in America, A Journey across Time and Place
Mineral Hall F, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor - Geographies of Refuge, Resettlement, and Asylum II (in-person)
Denver, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Mezzanine Level - Place, Music, and Power: New Geographies of Music and Sound
Mineral Hall G, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- 2023 Distinguished Historical Geographer Lecture – Daniel D. Arreola: The Mexican Restaurant in America, A Journey across Time and Place
- 2:40PM – 4:00PM
- Geographies of Refuge & Resettlement III
Virtual - Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict
Directors Row I, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
- Geographies of Refuge & Resettlement III
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Friday March 24th
- 10:20AM – 11:40AM
- Author Meets Colleagues: An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland by Kara Dempsey
Windows, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Second Level
- Author Meets Colleagues: An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland by Kara Dempsey
- 12:50PM – 2:10PM
- Cultural Geographies (Poster Session)
Plaza Ballroom, Sheraton, Concourse Level – Exhibit Hall - Public Memory and the Political Visions of Black Geographies 1
Directors Row I, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
- Cultural Geographies (Poster Session)
- 10:20AM – 11:40AM
- Saturday March 25th
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Drawing as Critical Geographical Method 1 (Hybrid Session)
Directors Row J, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level - Material Culture and Geography 1: Cultural and Material Landscapes
Centennial Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Drawing as Critical Geographical Method 1 (Hybrid Session)
- 10:20AM – 11:40AM
- Drawing as Critical Geographical Method 2 (Hybrid Session)
Directors Row J, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level - Material Culture and Geography 2: Commemoration and Art
Centennial Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Drawing as Critical Geographical Method 2 (Hybrid Session)
- 12:50PM – 2:10PM
- Joint Plenary: Black Geographies Specialty Group, Political Geography, and cultural geographies: Jovan Scott Lewis speaks on The Reparative Conjuncture: Injury, Recognition, and Redress (Hybrid Session)
Governors Square 14, Sheraton, Concourse Level - Material Culture and Geography 3: Environments
Centennial Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor - Queer/Trans Ecologies
Centennial Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Joint Plenary: Black Geographies Specialty Group, Political Geography, and cultural geographies: Jovan Scott Lewis speaks on The Reparative Conjuncture: Injury, Recognition, and Redress (Hybrid Session)
- 2:40PM – 4:00PM
- Joint Plenary: Black Geographies Specialty Group, cultural geographies, and Political Geography: Tianna Bruno, Andrew Curley, Mabel Gergan, Sara Smith speak on The Work of Repair: Land, Relation, and Pedagogy (Hybrid Session)
Governors Square 14, Sheraton, Concourse Level
- Joint Plenary: Black Geographies Specialty Group, cultural geographies, and Political Geography: Tianna Bruno, Andrew Curley, Mabel Gergan, Sara Smith speak on The Work of Repair: Land, Relation, and Pedagogy (Hybrid Session)
- 4:30PM – 5:50PM
- Geographical Review Panel in Commemoration of Yi-Fu Tuan
Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Geographical Review Panel in Commemoration of Yi-Fu Tuan
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Sunday March 26th
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Domestic Study Away Experiences for Undergraduates
Mineral Hall G, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor - Revisiting Critical Visual Methodologies 1
Mineral Hall A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Domestic Study Away Experiences for Undergraduates
- 10:20AM – 11:40AM
- Revisiting Critical Visual Methodologies 2
Mineral Hall A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Revisiting Critical Visual Methodologies 2
- 12:50PM – 2:10PM
- Environmental Humanities and Subaltern Futures in the Wake of Climate Change I
Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor - Revisiting Critical Visual Methodologies 3 (Hybrid Session)
Mineral Hall B, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Environmental Humanities and Subaltern Futures in the Wake of Climate Change I
- 2:40PM – 4:00PM
- Emotion, Space and Society Inaugural Lecture: Emotional Entanglements in a World That’s Falling Apart
Capitol Ballroom 4, Hyatt Regency, Fourth Floor - Environmental Humanities and Subaltern Futures in the Wake of Climate Change II (Hybrid Session)
Mineral Hall B, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Emotion, Space and Society Inaugural Lecture: Emotional Entanglements in a World That’s Falling Apart
- 4:30PM – 5:50PM
- “New” Geographies of Environmental Justice 2: Tools & Methods (Hybrid Session)
Tower Court D, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Second Level
- “New” Geographies of Environmental Justice 2: Tools & Methods (Hybrid Session)
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Monday March 27th
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
- Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (1)
Centennial Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (1)
- 10:20AM – 11:40AM
- Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (2)
Centennial Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (2)
- 12:50PM – 2:10PM
- Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (3)
Centennial Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
- Neighbourhoods and social infrastructure: place, belonging and interactions (3)
- 2:40PM – 4:00PM
- Crisis and Containment: Rethinking Interior Space (Hybrid Session)
Tower Court D, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Second Level
- Crisis and Containment: Rethinking Interior Space (Hybrid Session)
- 8:30AM – 9:50AM
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