**Sorry for cross-postings** 

Dear Friends,

On Sunday 2/26 at the AAG meeting in NYC there are a series of of loosely planned sessions which appears on the electronic program as "The inner-conference," with the intentionally minimal description:  "A non-hierarchical forum for the discussion of pressing issues in geography, the academy, and beyond."  To some degree, these sessions continue discussions begun in Vegas and extended in DC and Seattle, both inside and outside the spaces of the Annual Meeting.

We would love for you to join us in these discussions by coming to any (or all?) of the scheduled sessions.  We've attached a rough outline below that lays out broad topical categories to start us off. 

The "non-hierarchical forums" we registered for are intended to be exactly that. We invite your active participation.  We hope to use no more than half of any session on prepared comments, which will ideally be numerous and short, leaving the rest of the time for open dialogue. Therefore, we also invite anyone who wants to prepare a comment on any number of the topics listed in the outline, or a new unlisted topic, and to deliver your comments as part of the provocation for further, open dialogue. We imagine these comments as short (e.g. no more than 5 minutes) spiels a bit like the AAG panels - but without the dais and the performance anxiety.  Our discussions will be facilitated in ways that promote inclusive, non-hierarchical, anti-oppressive practices. If you are interested in doing so, please respond to this email with the topic(s) you'd like to comment on, so we can add you to the stack. It will also be possible to show up and talk, of course--we would just like to have some sense of what to anticipate.  

Thanks, and we hope to see you in NYC!

Inner-conference organizers

PS--For those of you who were gracious enough to let us attach your name to these panels in order to make them happen, thanks, and know that there is no obligation to show up for your listed slot. Of course we sincerely hope you all do show up, but don't feel forced.  

TENTATIVE DRAFT SUNDAY PROGRAM--Got something you want to see here? Come and let us know!

The inner-conference 1: waking up (8 - 9:40)
--  caffeine and starch intake, provided by inner-conference organizers to the best of our ability

--  setting up for the day
--  catching up with friends from other places, meeting new ones
--  informal discussions about the day and its relation to wider contexts

The inner-conference 2: solidarity and organizations past in geography (10 - 11:40)
--  comments from people involved in prior rounds of organizing and solidaristic association in academic geography
--  discussion about those efforts

The inner-conference 3: activists, occupations, and anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian organizing in-and-against our universities (12:40 - 2:20)
--  Non-academic geographer activist guests?
--  Occupy the ________
--  the "Arab Spring"
--  Anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian university organizing
--  Elsevier boycott and the enclosure of knowledge

The inner-conference 4: issues for a geographic collective/organizing and solidarity now (2:40 - 4:20)
--  review of inner/under-conferences past
--  what problems must be addressed in geography, the academy and beyond?
--  what goals and strategies do we envision?

The inner-conference 5: work party and going forward (4:40 - 6:20)
--  zine-, map-, and/or river of knowledge-making
--  closing discussion of efforts going forward