Introduction to the inaugural gender, place and culture/Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (RGS) annual keynote lecture, 2025

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The establishment of the inaugural annual keynote lecture addresses a historical absence of dedicated, high-profile spaces for gender and feminist geography at the Royal Geographical Society. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Cordélia Freeman; Kate Maclean

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2026.2705912

September 2, 2026Gender Place & Culture

Introduction to the inaugural gender, place and culture/Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (RGS) annual keynote lecture, 2025

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Introduce the inaugural annual keynote lecture hosted by Gender, Place and Culture and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society.
Documented the disciplinary history and institutional rationale behind founding a dedicated lecture series.
Outlined the structural and thematic framework intended to sustain feminist geographic scholarship across professional geographic societies.
Addressed a historical institutional absence by creating a prominent, permanent keynote platform for feminist and gender geography.
Established an enduring professional forum to advance critical feminist spatial theories within human geography.

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Editorial commentary highlights the establishment of a dedicated keynote lecture in feminist geography, emphasizing the institutional recognition of critical gender perspectives in human geography.

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The establishment of this lecture responds to what has, until recently, been a noticeable absence: a dedicated, high-profile keynote space for gender and feminist geography at the Royal Geographica...

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