Feminist Geography Conference: Pushing Scientific Boundaries

女权主义地理会议：推动科学的边界寻求从事地理和相关学科的学者在一系列的论文和小组会议，和研讨会，以满足多个目标。首先，会议为黑人土著和有色人种（BIPOC）以及人文地理子学科的国际学者提供了指导和网络机会。第二，会议通过学者之间的强有力的交流，进一步地理科学，沿着演讲和研讨会，突出了地理学的主要贡献，并讨论了不同的方法实践。这些目标被整合到几个会议形式创新中，产生了新的合作和参与方式。这些创新包括在多个地点举办混合虚拟会议，举办带档案的翻转会议模式，举办虚拟主题小组讨论，以及开发增值的面对面会议活动。这些格式增强了早期职业研究人员、研究生、国际科学家和STEM学科中历史上被排斥群体成员的可访问性。社会受益于多种甚至相互冲突的观点的包容。从不同角度产生的知识有能力加强地理科学，这反过来又加强和改善了研究和与公众的外联工作。该会议为跨越国界的指导和网络提供了一个至关重要的空间，并使国际学生和学者有机会从由于财务或旅行限制而无法进入的专业空间中受益，通过支持和保留研究生和早期职业学者来建立地理研究能力。教学创新的分享超越了会议，扩展到整个美国和国际的教室。此外，本次会议的成果将通过会议网站和社交媒体平台广泛传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Feminist Geography Conference: Pushing Scientific Boundaries seeks to engage scholars from Geography and related disciplines in a series of paper and panel sessions, and workshops to meet multiple objectives. First, the conference provides mentorship and networking opportunities for Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and international scholars in the subdiscipline of human geography. Second, the conference furthers geographic science through robust exchanges among scholars, along with presentations and workshops that highlight key contributions to geography and discuss different methodological practices. These objectives are integrated into several conference format innovations that generate new kinds of collaborations and participation. These innovations include holding a hybrid-virtual conference in multiple sites, hosting a flipped conference model with archives, hosting virtual keynote panel discussions, and developing value-added in-person conference activities. These formats enhance accessibility for early-career researchers, graduate students, international scientists, and members of historically excluded groups in STEM disciplines.Society benefits from the inclusion of multiple, even conflicting, perspectives. The knowledge generated from different perspectives has the capacity to enhance geographic science, which in turn enhances and improves research and outreach work with the public. The conference provides a vital space for mentoring and networking across national boundaries and allow international students and scholars the opportunity to benefit from a professional space that has been inaccessible due to financial or travel restrictions, building capacity for geographic research through the support and retention of graduate students and early-career scholars from underrepresented backgrounds. The sharing of pedagogical innovation expands beyond the conference to classrooms throughout the United States and internationally. Additionally, the products from this conference will remain widely available through the conference's website and dissemination on social media platforms.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.