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Featured Session Tracks

Geographic Research in Africa

Throughout Africa, researchers are harnessing the power of geographic methods to address environmental sustainability and other pressing issues. This special track of sessions spotlights the work of scientists and practitioners who apply geographic tools and methods to expand our understanding of complex, trans-boundary sustainable development issues such as food security, biodiversity, carbon emissions and water quality, among others. The track will build on the U.S. Department of State’s Global Dialogues on Emerging Science and Technology initiative, which has promoted the use of geospatial science for sustainable development in Africa through organizational capacity building and the strengthening of spatial data infrastructure.

Geography & Human Rights

The AAG and the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are jointly sponsoring a special track of sessions addressing Geography and Human Rights. As wide variety of geographers produce methods and analysis of interest to human rights work around the world, the implications and importance of spatial relationships continue to move toward the foreground of debate. This session will review a cross-section of geography with applications to ongoing human rights work. Attendees with relevant experience are encouraged to attend and contribute their knowledge to a developing database on geography and human rights.

Geography of AIDS/HIV

The AAG and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are jointly sponsoring a symposium on Geography, HIV/AIDS, and Drug Abuse, to be held on March 24, 2009, in conjunction with the AAG annual meeting in Las Vegas. The symposium will focus on the global geography of risk – specifically, drug use/abuse and the risk for HIV/AIDS in a globalizing world. Geographers, sociologists, medical researchers, epidemiologists, anthropologists, public health scientists, and others with active research in the geographical dimensions of drug use/abuse and HIV/AIDS will participate in the program.

Historical GIS

This special track of sessions focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by the growth of GIS into historical research. More than just a technology, GIS is helping to transform the discipline of history by allowing historians to ask new questions from new perspectives, allowing historians and other scholars to mine vast amounts of data that previously remained impervious to traditional historical methods alone. This special track examines and demonstrates the ways the geographic technologies can have a profound effect on historical research when coupled with traditional methods of historical analysis.

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