Please join us in Philadelphia for a meeting double-header: the Critical Geographies Mini-Conference and the Bodies, Health, and Environments (BHE) Unconference, April 24–26, 2026 at Temple University!
Cuts / Relations
Artwork by Jessica Hayes-Conroy
An exploration of how analytic cuts momentarily divide what is always already relational.
About the Event
Our gathering brings together two vibrant communities under one roof — each distinct in form and focus, yet animated by shared commitments to critical and relational ways of knowing. The event moves deliberately from conference to unconference: Friday and Saturday morning feature concurrent paper sessions and a keynote, before shifting into alternative-format sessions and a plenary panel. Sunday opens into embodied practice sessions and a co-thinking retreat space. The event is free of charge.
Why Together?
The pairing of these two events is not accidental. A recurring insight from BHE participants, which has been echoed across our yearly unconferences, is that the material, living body is not a specialty to be cordoned off alongside other subfields, but a thread running through all of critical geography. Life itself—how it is sustained, harmed, governed, and reimagined—is always already political, ecological, and geographic. This gathering is an experiment in taking that seriously. It brings the full range of critical geographic inquiry into conversation with BHE’s cross-epistemological community. We close on Sunday with an open retreat space that invites anyone who wants to stay to co-think/write about what a more expansive and relational critical geography might look like.
All events will be held in Gladfelter Hall, Temple University
