Events, Conferences & CfPs

Below you will find an overview of all our events, research talks and conferences.

upcoming

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Moving Filipino domestic workers to mainland China: The role of the migration industry

by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hui Chen

» 28 May 2026,
14:15 – 15:45 (CEST)

Nature, Health and Digital in Times of Crisis

International Symposium

Digital Geographies of Childhood and Youth

» 22-24 June 2026

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previous events / calls

Digital Emotional Governance Seminar Series

The Feel of Algorithms

by: Prof. Dr. Minna Ruckenstein

» 29 April 2026,
17:30 – 18:30 (CEST)

Double lecture

1. Research on Informality: German-Sino collaboration, research in China, and global cooperation in the future

by: Prof. Dr. Desheng XUE

2. Local Climate Zones as an Analytical Framework for Urban–Rural Gradients and Metropolitan Environmental Change

by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jing XIE

» 23 April 2026,
16:15 – 17:45 (CEST)

CfP | International Symposium

Digital Geographies of Childhood and Youth

» dead-line 8 March 2026

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Lessons and Learning from Grassroots Civil Society Action on Disaster Risk Reducation: A case study of Indian Sundarbans

by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Farhat Naz

» 22 January 2026,
14:15 – 15:45 pm (CET)

Jellinek-Dialloge zu Professionsethiken

Ko-produktive Forschung mit vulnerablen Gruppen

by: Prof. Dr. Eva Winkler & Prof. Dr. Tabea Bork-Hüffer

» 19 January 2026,
16:00 pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Digital intimate political geographies

The case of gender-based violence in the context of Kyrgyzstan on Instagram

by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Militz

» 14 July 2025,
11:15 am – 12:45 pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Little Eyes, Big Cities: Young Children Reimagine Urban Environments

by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Christina Ergler

» 24 June 2025,
5:00 – 7:00 pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Digitalisierung im Naturschutz

Potenziale und Risiken der Digitalisierung für den Naturschutz

by: Dr. Christian Schneider

» 26 May 2025,
11:15 am – 12:45 pm (CET)

ENABLING Cities: Zur Aushandlung alltäglicher, ermöglichender und inklusiver Räume

Ausstellung: Eine Stadt für alle – Leben mit Behinderung

Eine Ausstellung von 20 Studierenden des Masters Geographie der Universität Innsbruck unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Johannes Melchert und Jan Misera

» 27 June 2024,
10:00 – 12:00 pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Urban public spaces as catalysts for empowerment and social inclusion

by: Hooshmand Alizadeh

» 13 June 2024,
10:15 – 11:45am (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Scene/unseen – approaches to VR, biosensing and eyetracking in Digital Geography

by: Tess Osborne & Phil Jones

» 07 May 2024,
12:00 – 13:30pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

How equitable is evidence-based decision-making? On smart cities and planning for older people

by: Christoph Fink

» 23 January 2024,
12:00 – 13:30pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Robotics in Place and the Places of Robotics: Critical Geographies of Human-Robot Interaction

by: Casey Lynch

» 21 November 2023,
12:00 – 13:30pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Generative digital worlds of children and young people: possible forms of care and repair in digital geographies

by: Jessica McLean

» 17 October 2023,
08:30 – 10:00am (CET)

online event

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Density & Transit: Towards Compact Integrated Cities: Hong Kong’s dense and highly efficient urban system

by: Dr. Adrian Lo

» 20 June 2023,
12:00 – 13:30pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Transnationale Figurationen der Flucht – Welche Rolle spielen grenzüberschreitende Netzwerke für Geflüchtete auf ihrem Weg in die Zukunft?

by: Dr. Benjamin Etzold

» 23 May 2023,
12:00 – 13:30pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Digitalisierung im Naturschutz: Potenziale und Risiken der Digitalisierung für den Naturschutz

by: Dr. Christian Schneider

» 27 April 2023,
10:15 – 11:45am (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Co-creation, co-construction and co-production of knowledge: A reflection on employing creative methods with children

by: Christina Ergler

» 13 Dec. 2022, 12:00pm (CET)

Transient Spaces Lecture Series

Emotional data bodies: from affective computing to digital ecologies

by: Jessica Pykett

» 29 Nov. 2022, 12:00pm (CET)

Virtual Workshop: The entanglements of people, materialities and technologies: A joint DigitAS/beYOND workshop

This interdisciplinary half-day workshop takes place online, hosted at the Department of Geography at the University of Innsbruck on 3 June 2022.

» 3 June 2022,
8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (CEST)

Virtual Workshop: Urban Geographies in the Global South

The 7th workshop of the Working Group “Urban Geographies in the Global South” takes place online, hosted at the Department of Geography at the University of Innsbruck from 24 – 25 March 2022.

» 24-25 March 2022