IAG2025, the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Conference, will be held at City Hall and NUspace Newcastle, NSW from 30 June – 5 July 2025.

The theme of the Conference is Emergent Geographies.

We are at a point in time where we must urgently address global challenges such as climate change, transition, biodiversity, the rights of nature, urbanisation, sustainability, the importance of Indigenous knowledge, and human-environment interactions.

An emergent geographies acknowledges the ways these challenges arise out of complex interactions and behaviours that require greater emphasis on interdisciplinary thinking and approaches. Emergent geographies allow us to interrogate both the fledgling ideas and the burning passions that make the study of all things geographic an exciting prospect for all of us.

We are ever mindful of the need to recognise and incorporate into our work respectful consideration of culture, justice, equity, gender, power, knowledge, and the relationships between and rights of humans and the more-than-human world. As such, we invite you to join us as we meet as a community of practice to think deeply about current and developing issues, and workshop ideas and solutions that allow us to stake our claim as important decision-makers.

Join us and be energised by the interdisciplinary qualities of geography. Uniquely situated for researchers, policy experts, spatial professionals, and many others, the discipline of geography can provide theoretical and practical ideas about how to build resilient communities into the future.