Swiss Geoscience Meeting
Swiss Geoscience Meeting
The ASG coordinates the human geography presence at the annual Swiss Geoscience Meetings.
Every year, we feature a Swiss Human Geographies Keynote Lecture, alongside parallel, one-day symposia dedicated to human geography. Human geographers, and those with an affinity for the discipline, are invited to contribute.
This year, the SGM takes place in Bern on the 5th and 6th of December.
Symposia
This year, the following Human Geographies Symposia will take place at the SGM:
Human Geographies: Collective governance and maintenance of urban resources
Human Geographies: Feminist Political Geographies and Socially Engaged Research
Human Geographies: Housing Dynamics across Diverse Territorial Contexts in Switzerland and Beyond
Human Geographies: Thinking through incompletion
Human Geographies: Border politics and economies
Building on our mission, the ASG organises:
The ASG Workshop on Collective Action for Better Science
Friday, 5.12.2025 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m
Many academics, including Swiss geoscientists, move from one temporary position to the next. In times of budget cuts to education and research funding, the prospect of a stable job is becoming increasingly difficult for many to envisage. How can we address these challenges as a scientific community? How can professors, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and undergraduates collaborate — acknowledging our intersectional identities and privileges — to foster stable employment and a healthy academic culture for all?
In this workshop, we will facilitate a discussion about the role that unions can play in improving working conditions at Swiss universities and consider what we can learn from union struggles in other contexts. Representatives of the VPOD union and the actionuni intermediate staff organisation will open the discussion with contributions, followed by short commentaries from geographers Karin Schwiter, Mosè Cometta and Zali Fung, who have been involved in critical discussions about the future of academic work in Swiss geoscience. The workshop will then open the floor to all participants, who will engage in small-group discussions on organizing within and beyond universities.
This workshop, organized by Nora Komposch and Carolin Schurr, is part of the Swiss Geographical Association’s (ASG) broader aim to strengthen support for mid-level faculty in Swiss geography. The organizers are available for any further questions or suggestions. https://swissgeography.ch/en/
Registration: please register with the Swiss Geoscience Meeting registration form.
If you wish to participate to the workshop only (without participating to the rest of the Swiss Geoscience Meeting), please write us an email to: sgm@scnatweb.ch
Also on Friday, 5.12.2025:
Geodes Workshop: How Language Influences the Way We See the World
Plenary Session: Realigning within Planetary Boundaries – Equity and Sustainability in Resource Exploration
Swiss Geoscience Party
Geographica Helvetica Keynote Lecture with Maddalena Gretel Cammelli: Rethinking Fascism and the “F-word”: An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary European Landscape
Saturday, 6.12.2025 at 16.10h
Also on Saturday, 6.12.2025:
31 scientific symposia (including the five Human Geography symposia mentioned above)
Swiss Geology Day
ASG Dinner at Provisorium Restaurant
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For further information, contact Nora Komposch (nora.komposch@geo.uzh.ch).
We look forward to seeing you in Bern!
Nora Komposch
Vice-President, ASG
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The Human Geography Programme for the SGM 2025 can be downloaded here: