7th INTERNATIONAL GEOMEDIA CONFERENCE
Postdigital Resiliences
29.9.-1.10.2027, Mainz
From 29 September to 1 October 2027, the 7th International Geomedia Conference, initiated by the Centre for Geomedia Studies at Karlstad University in Sweden, will take place at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, bringing together scholars from geography, media and communication studies and related fields. Under the theme Postdigital Resiliences, Geomedia 2027 explores how media and digital technologies have become embedded in everyday life and place-making, and how it shapes experiences of uncertainty and vulnerability.
Our aim is to expand the conceptual, methodological, and empirical horizons of resilience in postdigital contexts and to open new avenues for thinking about space, place, mediation, and social transformation. Ultimately, by foregrounding postdigital resiliences as spatial, relational, and mediated processes, Geomedia 2027 aims to foster a reflexive dialogue on how geomedia and media-geographical scholarship can contribute to imagining and cultivating more just and inclusive futures in times of multiple crises.
Call for Participation and Contributions
The international conference Geomedia 2027: Postdigital Resiliences invites multi- and interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore how (geo)media participate in producing, modulating, and imagining resiliences in times of sociotechnical volatility, multiple crises, and algorithmic governance and welcomes perspectives from geography, media and communication studies and related fields.
The conference asks how pervasive mediation reshapes what is considered resilient, desirable, or necessary, and how these processes reproduce or challenge existing inequalities and exclusions. It encourages theoretical, analytical, and methodological perspectives that illuminate the relational and mediated character of resilience; whether through studies of infrastructures, practices, representations, and imaginaries; empirical examinations of everyday negotiations of uncertainties; or creative, participatory, and multimodal research approaches to space and place.
Contributions may examine, but are not limited to:
- Mediated practices, infrastructures, imaginaries, and everyday experiences of resiliences.
- Spatialised uncertainties, vulnerabilities and risks in deeply mediatised, datafied, and algorithmic environments
- Postdigital forms of care, governance, agency, and adaptation
- New aesthetic orders and mediated (in)visibilities of uncertainty
- Postdigital reconfigurations of space, mobility, and social encounter
- Inequalities, exclusions, and power relations shaping and shaped by postdigital resiliences
- Futuring, anticipation and geomedia’s role in producing resilient worlds
- Conceptual, methodological, creative, or multimodal approaches to studying postdigital placemaking
- Postdigital disentanglement and media ethnographies that foreground embodied, relational, and spatial dimensions obscured by data-driven abstractions.
Participants are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers, artistic contributions, audiovisual essays, workshops or paper sessions addressing the conference theme. While Postdigital Resiliences provide the overarching theme of Geomedia 2027, we warmly welcome contributions from across the broader field of Geomedia research. Submissions may engage closely with the conference theme or be only loosely connected to it.
Submissions of proposals are now possible until 31st of January 2027 (all information on submitting contributions can be found on the conference website: geomedia27.uni-mainz.de). All submissions are reviewed by the advisory board. After acceptance, the formal registration starts in March 2027.
Further information: https://geomedia27.uni-mainz.de/
Organisation
Elisabeth Sommerlad, Verena Brinks, Veronika Cummings
Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz