Vom 6. bis 10. August 2012 findet in der Prager Karls-Universität die XV. International Conference of Historical Geographers statt. Folgende Konferenzthemen sind vorgesehen:
Historical geography: past, present and future
Teaching historical geography
Historical geography archives and methods (research)
Borderlands, cores and peripheries in historical geographical perspective
Changing rural landscapes: transformation of the countryside
Changing historical towns: transformation of urban space
Nature, society and environmental change
Historical natural hazards and climate change
Historical land use: theory and methods
Regional, national and transnational identities
Heritage: creation, conservation, protection, extinction
Local places – global processes: places of memory – memory of places
Geographies of colonialism and post-colonialism
Spaces of mobility and migration
Spaces of conflict: war and post-war landscapes
Transitioning economies: industrialization, urbanization, and capitalist development
Leisure transition: tourism, sport and recreation
Changing Central Europe
Applied historical geography
Beiträge können noch bis Ende 2011 eingereicht werden. Alle Informationen stehen auf der Kongresshomepage.