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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 RSA Latin America Conference - Registration Deadline Extended 🚨

▶️Adapting Local and Regional Development to Changing Environments
⏰ 22-24 October 2025
🌎 Monterrey, Mexico

Registration deadline: 23rd September 2025

www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsala...

🔁😁

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨The 2nd webinar in the #YSI and #RegStud supported series organised by @max-roessler.bsky.social & @crhistianjoel.bsky.social happening soon. 🚨

🕰️ 16th Sept 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
▶️ Spatial imaginaries of ‘left behind places’ in policy discourse

bit.ly/47hnppY

Free to attend. 😁🔄

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨Open Session submitted for the upcoming RSA & ANZRSAI Conference 🚨

S01: Rethinking Talent Geographies in Shrinking and Peripheral Regions: New Methods, Global Patterns, and Policy Innovation

For more information on this session and the conference:

💻 bit.ly/4okCnlk

Abstracts by: 19 September

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨Abstract Deadline Day for 2025 Regional Futures Conference 🚨

⌛18 August

Join the RSA community in 🌎London, UK 🗓️13-14 November.

For more information and to submit your abstract:

🔗 bit.ly/4lgfLj3

😀🔁

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨We are delighted to announce our closing plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨

📣Patricia Daley, University of Oxford
🪑Zack Taylor, EiC TPG

🔶 Territory, Politics, Governance Lecture

Abstract deadline approaching: ⌛18 Aug

ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3

Join us in London 🌟

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨We are delighted to announce our opening plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨

📣Andres Rodriguez-Pose & Rachel Franklin
🪑Luisa Corrado

🔶Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture

We have extended the abstract deadline: ⌛18 August

ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3

Join us in London 🌟

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌟We are delighted to announce the next ANZRSAI & RSA Conference 🌟

🔶Population Change and Regional Resilience
📆1-2 Dec 2025
🌏University of Waikato, New Zealand

To view the CfPs and for more info, go to:

💻 bit.ly/4okCnlk

Join us in the beautiful city of Hamilton

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Jul 22

⌛Two weeks to abstract submission deadline ⌛

🔶 Beyond GDP: Measuring Just and Green Transitions for Resilient Societies

Rethink how we measure progress beyond income, toward green, inclusive, resilient economies.

Abstract deadline: 4th August 2025

💻 bit.ly/3GUdVWW

🔄😀

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Jul 9

🔔 Call for Abstracts

Join the “Beyond GDP” Conference the RCC, in partnership with the
@regstud.bsky.social

Rethink how we measure progress beyond income, toward green, inclusive, resilient economies. 🌱📊🌍

📝 Submit now: www.regionalstudies.org/events/beyon...

#BeyondGDP #SEE #InclusiveGrowth

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Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨New in Finance & Space 🚨

Eric Helleiner delivers a tour de force analysis of international finance amid polycrisis, encompassing:

🌍 Pandemic
🚩 Geopolitical conflict
🔥 Climate crisis
💱 Geoeconomic fragmentation
💣 Impending financial crisis?

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

International finance and the global polycrisis

It has become commonplace to suggest that we are living through a kind of ‘global polycrisis’. This article shows how the mobilisation of international finance has been at the core of political res...

www.tandfonline.com

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 26

Next up is PhD student, Kristina Dorofeeva, (University of Florence) sharing her research on shifting fertility patterns, focusing on economic instability and first childbirth among Italian couples.
@gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 26

The first student presentation this afternoon is by Fedaous Ben Brahim (UniLaSalle) sharing her research on the public perception of biogas projects in the Hauts-de-France Region. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 26

Next up, Filipe Batista (JRC) shares how innovative data and analytical methods help policymakers and researchers better understand demographic changes in "Assessing local and regional demographic trends and challenges: new data, methods and insights for the EU" @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 26

Viktor Venhorst @rug.nl kicks things off today with his talk on ‘A Demography of Education and the Labour Market’ and challenging students to consider how time dependency shapes their own research. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our final presentation today is Turan Abbaszade, University of Cambridge, sharing her research on urban development and economic resilience
@gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

We now have Rachel Barber from Queen's University & EHESS sharing her research on community engagement and policy intervention in places left behind.
@gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our third presentation this afternoon is by Giada Garofani @liverpooluni.bsky.social who is sharing her research on English neighbourhoods and life trajectories.

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

Second up is Gabriele Dore who is researching depopulation dynamics at Università di Firenze. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our first student presentation is by Biagio Lacolare, University of Naples Federico II who is looking at spatial patterns of foreign residential segregation.

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

This morning’s 2nd speaker is Annalisa Busetta (UNIPA). In her talk, “Mapping Demographic Inequalities: Beyond the Expected,” she highlights the role of spatiality in demography & challenges us to look beyond traditional models to uncover hidden patterns of inequality. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Jun 25

We're super excited to be supporting #YSI @max-roessler.bsky.social and @crhistianjoel.bsky.social on this fantastic webinar series. Some great speakers confirmed.

To find out more and register, starts 16 July: ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/ysi-rs...

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Jun 25

🔔 Call for Abstracts

Join the “Beyond GDP” Conference the RCC, in partnership with the
@regstud.bsky.social

Rethink how we measure progress beyond income, toward green, inclusive, resilient economies. 🌱📊🌍

📝 Submit now: www.regionalstudies.org/events/beyon...

#BeyondGDP #SEE #InclusiveGrowth

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Summer College continues today at UNIPA and our first speaker is Daniele Vignoli. He explains changing demographics in his seminar on Positive Demography: Re-Thinking Demographic Dynamics.

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 24

Onto our 2nd keynote and Alessandra Faggian @gssisocialsci.bsky.social convinces us why peripheral regions are so important.

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RSA Europe @rsaeurope.bsky.social · Jun 24

And the 2025 Summer College has begun - with Fabio Mazzola giving an opening keynote on human capital and regional development.

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