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Dear all,
Thank you to all participants of the GCEG2018. We enjoyed your participation so much and we are grateful for the exciting speeches, plenaries, sessions and posters! While the 5th GCEG has now come to an end we are happy to announce the
6th Global Conference on Economic Geography on 22-25 June in Dublin 2021
This Conference will be organized by our dear colleagues Dieter Kogler (University College Dublin) and Padraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin).
We are looking very much forward to it!!!
Best wishes
Boris Braun, Peter Dannenberg, Martina Fuchs, Javier Revilla Diez and Maximilian Willkomm
Welcome to the 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018 (GCEG 2018)
About the GCEG 2018
Theme: Dynamics in an Unequal World
Date and location: July 24 – 28, 2018, University of Cologne
Registration is now closed!
The call for abstracts is closed.
The biggest international conference dedicated to economic geography
• Cutting-edge research on how the map of the world economy is changing, why it is changing, and what we should do about it
• Implications for businesses, policy makers, planners, and teaching
• Plenary sessions and debates with eminent scholars and opinion and policy makers
• Hundreds of presentations e.g. on cities, consumption, development, digital technologies, the environment, finance, innovation, politics, regions, society, and work
• Inspiration, networking and best-practice sharing with more than 500 people from more than 60 countries
• Exhibitions by leading publishers
• Opening reception, conference dinner, and other events
Organisers: Boris Braun, Peter Dannenberg, Martina Fuchs, and Javier Revilla Diez, Institute of Geography and Department of Economic and Social Geography
Participants: geographers, economists, regional scientists, social scientists, business scholars, opinion and policy makers, publishers, and industry practitioners interested in global economic dynamics
Rationale:
The title “Dynamics in an Unequal World” is based on the premise that the world is far from being flat. Worldwide, we see uneven developments in which regions and countries rise, while other fall. The growth of specialized economic clusters like Silicon Valley or the growing numbers of Global Cities in which economic headquarter functions accumulate are only two examples that agglomeration and marginalization processes are not diminishing on a local, national, or global scale. What are the drivers of these developments and what are the implications? Who will be the next winners and who the losers? What is the role of rural and urban areas for economic development in the future and what is the role of the different regions in the Global South?
Economic geography, with its focus on uneven development, is well-positioned to map these dynamics, explore the implications, and formulate new ways in which economies can be conceptualized and researched.