Name: 19th International Conference of Historical Geographers
Start: 2028-07-17T :00.000-03:00
End: 2028-07-21T00:00 :00.000-03:00
Location: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

About the Conference

The International Conference of Historical Geographers (ICHG) series, established in 1975, is the leading global forum for scholars working in historical geography and related fields. Held every three years, the conference brings together researchers from around the world to present new research, exchange ideas, and engage in critical discussions on the historical dimensions of space, place, environment, and society. The ICHG fosters interdisciplinary dialogue across geography, history, environmental studies, and the social sciences, while promoting international collaboration and showcasing diverse methodological and regional perspectives.

Conference Topic

Unsettling the Archive: Historical Geographies of Coloniality, Memory, and Resistance

Historical geography has long engaged with the critical analysis of how geographical knowledge is produced, contested, and transformed across time and space. Yet the field's own conditions of possibility, given its archives, languages, and institutional homes, have not always been subjected to the same critical scrutiny. As we gather for the first time in South America, we invite the global community of historical geographers to think from a place marked by colonialism, the layered histories of slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and ongoing struggles for spatial justice, and to ask what historical geography looks like when those histories are not a backdrop, but the very ground on which we stand.

At the centre of this conference is a concern with archives as technologies of power. Archives have classified, silenced, and ordered the past in ways that continue to shape the present. They have rendered certain lives legible and others invisible, preserved some spatial imaginaries and destroyed others. The logics that have governed what gets archived and what does not are inseparable from the structural operations of race, gender, and sexuality - forces that have determined whose bodies, territories, and ways of knowing were deemed worthy of preservation, and whose were deemed expendable. But archives have also been disputed, subverted, and reimagined. Communities, movements, and scholars have built counter-archives, recovered fragments of erased histories, and developed practices of reading against the grain, asking not only what documents say, but what they were made to conceal. This conference invites reflection on what it means to unsettle the archive, to challenge its institutional logics, disrupt its classificatory systems, and open it to new gazes and imaginations.

We invite contributions that engage with these questions across a wide range of themes, methods, and geographies. How do community archives, oral histories, and non-institutional memory practices challenge and expand the sources of historical geography? How can abolitionist geographies, Black geographies, Indigenous geographies, feminist geographies, and queer geographies reframe our understanding of space, territory, and memory? In what ways do translation, circulation, and appropriation shape the production and contestation of geographical knowledge across different contexts? How can critical re-readings of institutional documents such as maps, surveys, and administrative records open new possibilities for spatial justice and historical reckoning?

We warmly welcome contributions from historical geography, environmental history, archaeology, map and art history, and the broader social sciences, arts and humanities engaged with the past. We are especially committed to creating space for scholars, practitioners, and community researchers working from and with communities whose geographies have been historically marginalised, misrepresented, or erased. The 19th ICHG arrives in South America carrying that commitment as its most fundamental orientation.

Rio de Janeiro, 25 de junho de 2026

The Local Organising Committee
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ

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Local Organising Committee

Co-chairs

Mariana Lamego, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

André Reyes Novaes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Secretary & Deputy Chair

Patrícia Gomes da Silveira, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Rafael da Costa Gonçalves de Almeida, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Committee

Ana Brasil Machado, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

André Nunes de Sousa, Instituto Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Deborah Fontenelle, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Glauco Bruce Rodrigues, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Guilherme Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Letícia Parente Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcelo Werner, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Maria Isabel Chrystosomo, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil

Marianna Fernandes Moreira, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mateus Barbosa Santos da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil

Matheus da Silveira Grandi, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sérgio Nunes Pereira, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

International Scientific Committee

Chair

Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham, UK

Comittee

Denilson Araujo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Diogo Cabral, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Federico Ferretti, Bologna University, Italy

Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Fukuda Tamani, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

George Lovell, Queen’s University, Canada

Gordon Winder, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Luciana Martins, Birkbeck University, UK

Martin Mahony, University of East Anglia, UK

Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College, United States of America

Paloma Puente Lozano, Universidad Carlos III, Spain

Perla Zuzman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ruth Craggs, King's College, UK

Sebastian Díaz Angel, Razón Cartográfica, Colombia

Teona Williams, Rutgers University, United States of America

Veronica Hollman, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Argentina

Yannan Ding, Fudan University, China

Zhang Lei, Liangnan University, Hong Kong, China

Advisory Committee

Breno Viotto Pedrosa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Carlo Eugenio Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil

Carolina Martinez, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Argentina

Caroline Bulhões Nunes Vaz, Instituto Federal da Paraíba, Brazil

Davi Ramírez Palacios, Razón Cartográfica, Colombia

Francisco Roque de Oliveira, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Iris Kantor, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Jörn Seemann, Ball State University, United States of America

José Augusto Pádua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Larissa Alves de Lira, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Lia Osório Machado, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lucas Figueiredo, Mapoteca Histórica do Itamaraty

Manoel Fernandes de Souza Neto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Dulce de Faria, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Brazil

Moema Vergara, Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Brazil

Paulo Albuquerque Bonfim, Instituto Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

Paulo César da Costa Gomes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pedro de Almeida Vasconcelos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Perla Zusman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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