Housekeeping?

AK Digitale Geographien

October 9, 2026

Annual meeting, Heidelberg

Till Straube

straube@geo.uni-frankfurt.de

Institut für Humangeographie

How it started

How it’s going

• 2018–2022 DFG grant (wissenschaftliches Netzwerk)
  • Network meetings
• November 2022: Constitution as AK
  • Annual meetings

Venues of semi/annual meetings

Next meetings

• 2027 Halle
• 2028 …?

Other activities

• Open meetups at DKG
  • Tübingen, Kiel, Frankfurt
  • Bonn?
• Summer school 2021 (Erlangen)
• October 2024: Launched grid

https://gridisnotajournal.de

AK Infrastructure

• Website https://digitale-geographien.de
• Mailing list dig-geo@dlist.uni-frankfurt.de
• Contact address kontakt@digitale-geographien.de

Speakers

• Academic currency, raison d’être?
• Non-professorial
• Tied to organization of annual meeting
• Rotating with continuity (2 years)

VGDH

• Verband der Geographie an Deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen
  • Publishes Rundbrief Geographie
  • Hosts DKG (as part of DGfG)
  • Membership 120 €
• Meeting with AKs in July ’26
• New regulations for starting fall of 2026
• Three models (we have to choose one)