GCRO Colleagues participate at the 2025 American Association of Geographers Conference in Detroit

Two colleagues from GCRO, Dr. Samkelisiwe Khanyile and Graeme Gotz, attended the 2025 American Association of Geographers Conference in Detroit, USA, from March 24 to 28, 2025. The theme of the conference was "Making Spaces of Possibility." The colleagues were excited to participate in an event that encouraged discussions about the role of geographers in creating environments that foster the imagination and realization of more equitable worlds. These concepts are shaped by both local and global processes, as well as the diverse perspectives of residents, advocates, and activists. During the conference, they delivered two presentations and participated in one panel discussion.

● Dr. Samkelisiwe Khanyile (March 2025). Mapping the complex socio-environmental transitions of Gauteng post-mining urban landscape: A GIS approach. Session on Integrative future-oriented approaches for transformative socio-environmental change, American Association of Geographers, Detroit, 27 March 2025.

● Graeme Gotz (March 2025). Panel member in panel session: From Covid to crisis: Mobilising learnings about responses in unequal cities. American Association of Geographers (AAG), Detroit, 24 March 2025.

● Graeme Gotz, Philip Harrison, Rob Moore, Margot Rubin (March 2025); Transcalar crisis between the urban and the national: post-COVID state renegotiation in SA; Session on (Not) The state in urban development, American Association of Geographers (AAG), Detroit, 24 March 2025.