This session will explore the emotional, embodied, and affective dimensions of place, identity, and memory. Presenters will draw from decolonial, feminist, literary, and queer methodologies to investigate how individuals and communities engage with spatial injustice, trauma, belonging, and transformation. Case studies range from Lima to Kyiv, Slovenia to Ottawa, offering insights into how bodies and emotions shape geographic understandings and social activism. Participants will encounter innovative and creative methodologies such as body mapping, memory-based storytelling, and comparative literary analysis in this dynamic and thoughtful session.

• 10:15 AM
  Exploring Fatphobia in Lima: Autoethnography, Body Mapping, and the Body-Territory Methodology
  Rosario del Pilar Rodriguez Romani, York University

• 10:30 AM
  Maplibs: Playful Memory Mapping for Affective Community Vision-Making
  Amanda Montague, Carleton University

• 10:45 AM
  Exploring Child Sexual Abuse and Healing through Place: A Comparative Analysis of Celia’s Song and Cereus Blooms at Night
  Noreen Cauley-Le Fevre, Carleton University

• 11:00 AM
  Where Histories Converge: An Emotional Geography of Kyiv’s Motherland Monument
  Sophia Jewell, University of Alberta

• 11:15 AM
  Urbanity in Motion: Confluences of Mobility, Encounters, and Queer Space-Making
  Tilen Kolar, University of Leeds