Burner Geographies: Call for Papers 2025/26

[Robin Abad Ocubillo]

Announcing a Call for Papers for "Burner Geographies" at the American Society of Geographers, March 2026 in San Francisco (where all the Burning began!)

This call invites expressions of interest including papers (ranging from empirics to theoretical framing), panels (focused on critique and experience) as well as informal meet-ups at AAG or Burning Man. The goal is a critical assessment of Burning Man including (but not limited to) its urban geographies and city planning, ritual practices and everyday life, role in the tech economy, contribution to libertarian exit imaginaries, issues of diversity and exclusion, festival cultures and economies, engagement with indigenous land and settler colonialism, implications for political ecology and climate change, and its local and translocal proliferation through regional events.

For more information, and to submit a paper / presentation proposal, go to tinyurl.com/Burner-Geographies-Propose. Proposals are accepted through October 30, 2025. 

Please email robi...@berkeley.edu with any questions! 

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Robin Abad Ocubillo

Investigator, The Black Rock City Queer Census & Culture Audit
Department of Anthropology