editorial Geographische Zeitschrift 106, 2018/1, 2–3 DOI 10.25162/gz-2018-0001 ANNALISA COLOMBINO / ULRICH ERMANN Geographers and Geographies on the Move Tis special issue is based on a panel discussion about the internationalization of ge- ographical debates, held in Graz, Austria, at the conference “Neue Kulturgeographie XIII”, on January the 28 th , 2016. For the frst time, the “NKG-Tagung” was taking place outside Germany. Te organising commitee included members with diferent nation- alities and academic backgrounds, which stretch beyond the borders of their countries of birth (Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and USA). Considering that now- adays many German geographers present and publish in English at international ven- ues, the German member of the commitee struggled to clarify to the others why Ger- man-speaking geography maters, and how “Neue Kulturgeographie” is a specifcally German thing, far from being a straightforward translation of “new cultural geography”. Te title of the Conference – Integrating Geographies: Geographers and Geographies on the Move – emerged out of these discussions and aimed at provoking thoughts on the efects of crossing and maintaining the national and language borders of our academic practices (Korf et al. 2013; Minca 2013). A panel animated by geographers with a transnational academic career opened the Conference. Tis special issue presents a new format for the Geographische Zeitschrif as it includes four articles – respectively authored by the panellists Mathew Hannah, Heike Jöns, Ferenc Gyuris and Shadia Husseini de Araújo – which respond to Claudio Minca’s opening intervention on the survival of national geographical traditions in a context marked by the emergence of ‘cosmopolitan geographies’; namely, by an increas- ing internationalization of academia, in which English has been adopted as the lingua franca and scholars are expected to work abroad to strengthen their profles ( Jöns and Freytag 2016). Te rise of ‘cosmopolitan geographies’ may sound atractive as some of us enjoy trav- elling and exchanging ideas with colleagues from other countries. A more ‘cosmopolitan’ academia might also contribute to challenging local, national nepotism. Yet, this ‘cos- mopolitism’ generates a number of hegemonic trends at diferent scales. Anglophone geography is ofen perceived as dominant over geographies produced in other countries and writen in other languages. Te hegemony of British and North-American geogra- phy may thus disguise power imbalances and reproduce hierarchies and contraposi- tions: the dominance of the geographies from the Global North versus the geographies from the Global South; and, more generally, Western geographies versus non-Western