#RinR21 Festival Highlights & Recordings
Last week saw the end of the 2021 Regions in Recovery Festival (#RinR21). The Festival ran over 2.5 weeks, featured 458 papers, 124 sessions including 10 well-being sessions. The Festival was delivered in partnership with a number of societies and research-led networks and brought together the global regional studies and regional science community.
We would like to thank the over 1250 participants representing 71 countries who joined the Festival and celebrated regional research, policy and development with us. Click here for impressions and highlights of the Festival.
Recordings of sessions can be accessed until 31st August. Please click on the links below to view session recordings:
Plenary Sessions:
- Opening Plenary on “Regions in Recovery”
- Area Development and Policy (ADP) Annual Lecture on “Global Value Chains from an Evolutionary Economic Geography perspective: a research agenda”
- Keynote Panel on “Infrastructural Times” organised by our research network and festival partner NOIR
- Closing Plenary on “Failing Federalism? US Dualist Federalism and the 2020 Pandemic”
Professional Development Sessions
Choose from several Meet the Editors sessions, Introductions to Grant Schemes as well as an Student and Early career Session on “Finding the One: How to get your First Post-doc Position and make the most of it”
Festival Partners and links to their Sessions
- AESOP
- AESOP – Young Academic Network
- Coffee Break with Researchers
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- FinGeo
- Friends of Smart Specialisation – FoSS
- LDnet
- Network on Infrastructural Regionalism – NOIR
- Routledge: Regions and Cities Book Series
- RSA Nordic Division – NORSA
- RSAI – BIS
- Seminars in Economic Geography
- Taylor & Francis
- Urban Innovative Actions (UIA)
- Young Scholars Initiative – YSI Urban and Regional Economics
Full Festival Programme
You can also browse parallel sessions and view recordings where available. Thank you for your understanding that not all sessions have been recorded due to our opt-in policy.
RSA Events Expertise
If you enjoyed the #RinR21 Festival and plan to run an in-person, blended or fully online event, please get in touch to explore how we can support your conference or knowledge exchange activity. Please email daniela.carl@regionalstudies.org.