Cities After Transition​

CATference 2025

Cities After Transition – 11th International Urban Geographies of Post-Communist States Conference.
Tirana, 22-25 September 2025

CATferences started off as meeting places for urban geographers, but they gradually evolved into multi- and inter-disciplinary events. The 2025 edition will be the 11th one, and both the CAT network and the CAT-ferences have expanded significantly since the first event, which was held in Lund (Sweden), where it was nested within the Inaugural Nordic Geographers’ Meeting. Since then, both the Nordic and the CAT events have been thriving. In 2007, the CATference became “independent” and was held in Stockholm, Tallinn and across the Baltic Sea. Then came Tartu (2009), Bucharest (2011), Tbilisi (2013), Prague (2015), Kyiv and Dnipro (2017), Belgrade (2019), Budapest (2022) and Riga (2023). A key ingredient in all CATferences is the 2-day field trip.