---
title: "\"Housekeeping\"?"
subtitle: AK Digitale Geographien

venue: 2026 Annual meeting, Heidelberg

date: 2026-10-09
lang: en

author:
- name: Till Straube
  email: straube@geo.uni-frankfurt.de
  affiliation: Institut für Humangeographie

---

## How it started

![](2015-erlangen.jpg)

## How it's going

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

## Venues of semi/annual meetings

```{r}
source("utils.R")

venues <- tribble(
  ~date, ~place,
  "2026-10-08", "Heidelberg",
  "2025-11-05", "Frankfurt",
  "2024-09-30", "Nürnberg",
  "2023-11-23", "Mainz",
  "2022-11-16", "Halle",
  "2021-12-02", "Frankfurt",
  "2020-03-12", "Innsbruck (online)",
  "2019-05-23", "Frankfurt",
  "2018-11-08", "Wien",
  "2018-04-19", "Berlin",
  "2017-05-11", "Erlangen",
  "2015-05-26", "Erlangen",
  "2016-02-18", "Frankfurt",
  "2016-10-06", "Erlangen"
) |>
  mutate(place = factor(place) |> fct_rev())

ggplot(venues) +
  geom_tile(aes(x = date, y = place)) +
  theme_goethe_light() +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(
    angle = 45,
    hjust = 1,
  )) +
  theme(axis.title = element_blank())
```

## Next meetings

- 2027 Halle
- 2028 ...?

## Other activities

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

##

:::columns
:::{.column width=70%}

![https://gridisnotajournal.de](grid.png)

:::
:::{.column width=30%}

```{r}
#| out-width: 300px
qr("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)

## 

![](vgdh.png)