CAG/CARTO Annual Meeting 2026
Register now and make sure to book your accommodation early!
If your abstract was accepted, make sure to register before May 1st. This will help the Organizing Committee finalize the schedule.
Welcome to Resilience
In our current age of climate change, habitat destruction, social injustice, and political disinformation, it is vital to recognize that connection is resilience. Our ability to adapt, recover, and innovate in the face of challenges depends on how we work together as citizens and scientists of all disciplines. Embracing this perspective, CAG/CARTO 2026 has selected Resilience as our theme.
Join the Canadian Association of Geographers-CAG / Association Canadienne des Géographes-ACG and the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives-ACMLA / Association des Cartothèques et Archives Cartographiques du Canada-ACACC on Lək̓ʷəŋən territory, also known as Victoria BC, on June 1-4, 2026 as we work together to wrestle with these issues, offer solutions, and take action.
Canadian Geographies Lecture
Deborah McGregor, Anishinabe, Whitefish River First Nation, Professor, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Indigenous Planetary Well Being, University of Calgary. Dr.McGregor’s research has focused on Indigenous knowledge systems in diverse contexts including environmental and water governance, environmental and climate justice, health and Anishinaabe legal traditions. She remains actively involved in a variety of First Nation initiatives, continuing to serve as an advisor and engaging in community-based research and initiatives.
Indigenous art showcase by Natalie Rollins
Natalie Rollins is an interdisciplinary artist and emerging curator whose work spans visual, media, and performing arts. Guided by her family lineages—Cree from Driftpile Cree Nation, where she is a band member through her father, and English, Irish, and Scottish through her mother—her practice is grounded in relational, place-based ways of learning, walking, and being. Through both artistic and curatorial work, she explores questions of belonging, responsibility, and Indigenous laws as they are enacted through art, culture, and performance.
Natalie curated an exhibition in connection with the geography conference as a way of bringing artistic practice into dialogue with geographic questions of land, place, and relationality. Her curatorial approach is informed by collaborative and community-centered methodologies, centering Indigenous perspectives while creating space for reflection on how we live with and care for the lands and communities we inhabit.
Who Shapes Geography? A Survey from CAG on Decolonizing and Indigenizing Geography
The CAG Decolonizing and Indigenizing Committee (D&I) would like to hear from you! Please fill out the survey to help the committee identify barriers to participation in CAG events, publications, and conferences. The results will help guide the committee and CAG in making meaningful changes to better support the work of Indigenous scholars and those working in the fields of anticolonial and decolonial research.
The Venue
This year, the CAG/CARTO Annual Meeting will be held at the University of Victoria. Activities will take place at the Sŋéqə ʔéʔləŋ (Sngequ House) and the McPherson Library, which are moments from all campus amenities with easy access to direct buses to downtown Victoria.
Territory Acknowledgement
We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded Territory this event is being held, and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
To see whose Traditional Territory you reside on visit the Native Land Map
Location
Sngequ House at the University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
Canada, V8P 5C2
Dates
Submission period:
December 15, 2025 - 9:00 AM PST - March 2, 2026 - 11:59 PM PST
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact CAG2026@uvic.ca