This event will be held 9 July on Zoom, 9.45am – 5.30pm. (London; UTC+1:00). Registration via here.

It feels like the world is more fragile than ever. Precarity, instability, and uncertainty are defining the current political landscape and are, to varying degrees, impacting the lived realities of both academic scholarship, employment conditions, and everyday life.

We seem to be living in a time of profound transition and ontological vulnerability that demands critical reflection on the kinds of futures and social orders that are emerging in relation to key changes in digital technologies and geographies.

Digital geographers can help understand and develop critical reflections about the ways fragility is spatial and manifest in and through digital technologies.

This online symposium, hosted by the RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group, therefore seeks to build conversations around emerging issues of precarity, instability, and uncertainty that are shaping contemporary social life, and asks how digital geographies in particular can help frame and address such complex questions and issues.

Programme

We have a full programme, packed with three exciting sessions covering the topics ‘Bodies, Data and Lived Experience‘, ‘AI, Knowledge and Computational Worlds‘ and ‘Surveillance, Vision and Control‘. The keynote, by Prof Margath Walker, is on ‘The Fragility of AI: Disrupting Disruptive Technologies‘.

The full programme is available here.

Booking information

Advance booking for this event is required. In order to book, visit this link over at the RGS website. This event will be held on Zoom and joining instructions will be included in your confirmation email.