Overview

The Department of Geography and Environment at UNC Chapel Hill is hosting a two-day “node” of the 2024 AAG Annual Meeting, allowing people who are not traveling to Hawai’i or are not virtually registered to attend sessions and meet in-person. Attendance is free, but we request that you submit this form if you’re planning to attend so we can have a headcount!

Programming will run from 4:00 PM to 8:40 PM on Friday and 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM on Saturday, primarily streaming sessions from the main meeting. Refreshments will be available on Friday evening and Saturday morning.

All events will be hosted at Carolina Hall on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus. Programming will be on the second and third floors of the building. Carolina Hall has an elevator and a ramp to enter the building.

Schedule

Individual session viewing

Carolina Hall 320 will have several computers available from 4:00 to 8:40 on Friday and 11:30 to 4:20 on Saturday for node attendees to individually log on to sessions that are not being streamed in CH 220, CH 204, or CH 321. See the schedule of sessions here.

Sessions: Friday, April 19th

Time	Carolina Hall 220	Carolina Hall 204	Carolina Hall 321
4:00-4:30 PM	Welcome activities - Carolina Hall 220.
4:40-6:00 PM	LIVE: Nancy Peluso: From Political Forests to Remittance Forests to Golden Undergrounds: Putting Migration Back In	LIVE: Neil Brenner: Urbanization in the ‘big ring’: theses on cities, fossil energy, and the metabolic churn of capital	LIVE: Critical Physical Geographies of Flooding
6:10-7:10 PM	Break for dinner and socializing.
7:20-8:40 PM	LIVE: Black Geographies Plenary: Decolonizing Detroit: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Afro-Indigenous Futures	LIVE: Gentrification and Ghettoization: Geographies of Eviction, Banishment, and Stigmatization	LIVE: Geospatial Health Research Symposium

Sessions: Saturday, April 20th

Time	Carolina Hall 220	Carolina Hall 204	Carolina Hall 321
11:00-11:30	Welcome and breakfast - Carolina Hall 220
11:30-1:00	RECORDED: AAG Presidential Plenary: Rebecca Lave - Reciprocal Scholarship	Recorded plenary will be viewed in CH 220 before live sessions begin on Saturday, with time for discussion afterwards.
1:20-2:40 PM	Recorded Antipode Lecture: Vernadette Gonzalez on Tourism and Colonialism in Hawai’i	LIVE: Reflexive urban models	Recorded Lecture: Clancy Wilmott, Indigenous Mapping in the Bay
3:00-4:20 PM	Recorded Plenary Panel: Perspectives and visions towards Indigenous food sovereignty in Hawai’i	LIVE: Geography, Vulnerability, Crises, and Adaptation in Hawaiʻi	LIVE: The Political Economy of Migration Governance: Extraction, Logistification and Racial Capitalism 1

Refreshments and socializing

We encourage folks to get to know one another between sessions! We will have a light dinner available throughout the Friday sessions in Carolina Hall 220 and a light breakfast at 11:00 AM Saturday in Carolina Hall 220.

Getting Here

Transit

Visitors from throughout the region may want to consider taking a look at transit options to UNC, such as the Alamance Burlington Express (Greensboro-Chapel Hill), GoTriangle Route 400 (Durham-Chapel Hill), or GoTriangle Route CRX (Raleigh-Chapel Hill).

Sadly, the Alamance Burlington Express and Route CRX only operate Monday-Friday, with their last buses leaving Chapel Hill in the (very) early evening. These options are nonetheless included in this guide to highlight the inadequacy of public transportation and resulting car dependence in the area!

Parking

Before 5pm on Friday, hourly parking on campus is available at the Rams Head Parking Deck, Morehead Planetarium Lot, or Raleigh Road Lot. We recommend parking at the Morehead Planetarium Lot for easiest access to Carolina Hall.

After 5pm on Friday, parking on campus only requires a $1 one-night pass. Details on reserving this pass can be found here. We recommend the Morehead Planetarium, Old East, or Caldwell-Bynum lots for access to Carolina Hall. Some fantastic sessions start at 4:40 pm on Friday, so parking at Morehead for one hour under the hourly rate and then switching to the permit may be a great option!

Parking on Saturday is free on campus. Please note that traffic and parking could be difficult on Saturday in Chapel Hill due to the Tarheel 10 Mile race. Campus advisory can be found here.

We have scheduled a start time that should be after the race is completed, but parking may still be difficult at 10:30. We recommend trying the Nash Lot and Park Place Parking Lot.

Or look at the actual race parking document for additional advice.

Accessibility

All events will be hosted at Carolina Hall on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus. Programming will be on the second and third floors of the building. Carolina Hall has an elevator, and there is a ramp to enter the building at the main (south) entrance.

Contact

Please feel free to contact Natalia (nmu@unc.edu) or Ben (gilvar@unc.edu) with any questions!