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The article announces the 2017 Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) awards, including the Tom McKnight and Joan Clemons Award to Sean Pries of University of California, Davis and the President's Award to Birendra Rana and Genie Bey.

The article offers information on the Nystrom Competition of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) featuring papers based on dissertations in geography.

This paper was delivered by invitation as the opening plenary address at the 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London, UK, 5-10 July 2015. That series of conferences had its origins in a British- Canadian symposium held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1975. Coincidentally, the J ournal of H istorical G eography was also founded in 1975. This paper assesses the contributions of the ICHG and of the JHG to the internationalisation of historical geography during the first 40 years of their existences. It provides some reflections not only on their significant, positive, contributions but also on the problems raised by their structures, breadth of coverage, costs, and use only of the English language. It concludes by acknowledging the role of other international gatherings of historical geographers and of other journals of historical geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the annual conference organized by the Institute of British Geographers in Durham, England. Topics discussed during the event; Theme of the papers presented; Attendees of the conference.

Features the life and works of Joseph Earle Spencer, editor of the journal "Annals of the Association of American Geographers" from 1964-1970 in the U.S. Educational background; Career highlights; Impetus to the interest of Spencer in geography.

The article presents some of the highlights of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) held at the University of Oregon in Eugene from September 6 to 9, 2006. The conference featured paper and panel sessions as well as one poster session. It states that APCG president Jenny Zorn shared her views on the challenges and opportunities of enhancing the diversity of the discipline of geography.

Comments on John Fraser Hart's presidential address "The Highest Form of the Geographer's Art," that was previously published in the 1982 issue of "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." Impracticality of Hart's advice to return nature discipline to the old; Accession on Hart's statement regarding the need for a more relaxed and less dogmatic approach to the disciplines; Views on how to maintain the status of geography as a viable tertiary academic field.

The article reports on the developments in how geographers have sought to make sense of the materiality of human and non-human life. It mentions some of the key words in environmental geography including volatility, performance, inventiveness and emergence. The author also comments on the direction that the study of society-environment relations has traveled since writers like Neil Smith questioned the idea that nature named a region external to society. He adds that for some geographers, it is the conjunction of radical uncertainty in complex systems and the capacity of bodies for affect that must inform environmental ethics.

Geographers at the AAG's centennial are challenged with exceptional opportunities to create a more central place for geography in society and in the university. Realizing these opportunities requires identifying and leveraging key emerging trends in the formation and uses of geographic knowledge. Better integration of geography's profound technological innovations with its core traditions also is necessary to strengthen the discipline's research capacity, and to more effectively engage with and contribute to the needs of society. Trends toward multidisciplinary research and integrative science, and the heightened need for geographic understanding in today's world, hold further promise for advancing the discipline while sustaining its historic strengths and diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of physical geography (and its practitioners) in the affairs of the Association of American Geographers and in the development of American geography has been varied in both substance and influence during the past seventy-five years. Physical geography was at its strongest in the Association's first decade and has recently experienced a resurgence. American physical geographers have tended to be adherents of the so-called ‘man-land’ tradition in geographical teaching and research, which position is supported herein: firstly, by a review and perspective of physical geography during this century; secondly, through an exposition of some geographical opportunities for the future; thirdly, by discussion of the breadth vs. depth question in geographic education; and, fourthly, by concluding comments on this century's closing circle of events past, present, and future in American geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]