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Land, landscape and lifestyle: middle class boundary work in suburban Dar es Salaam
The Department of Geography Seminar Series 2016-17 Land, landscape and lifestyle: middle class boundary work in suburban Dar es Salaam Dr. Claire Mercer Associate Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics
When: Thursday, 27 April 2017
Creating Alternative Food Futures: Food Sovereignty in Ireland and Beyond
April 17 is International Day of Peasant Struggle – a day to recognise and acknowledge the difficulties faced by diverse food producers in a world in which one-tenth of humanity experiences hunger. There is no better time discuss how we can create alternative food futures in Ireland and beyond.
When: Thursday, 13 April 2017
The Eurovision Song Contest in a Changing World: Culture, Geography and Politics
Bringing together academics and fans of Eurovision alike, to examine what makes it special and what, if anything, it says about the modern European landscape.
When: Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Gehlke and Biehl Revisited
In 1932 Charles Gehlke and Katherine Biehl reported that the correlation between juvenile delinquency rates and median income for census tracts in Cleveland OH increased as the tracts were aggregated into larger and larger areas. Charles Yule and Maurice Kendall’s experiments in 1950 with agricultural yield data reported that ‘modifiable’ spatial units could be created to furnish correlations ranging from 0 to 1.
When: Thursday, 06 April 2017
Restoring water quality in an intensively managed agricultural landscape
The Department of Geography Seminar Series 2016-17 Restoring water quality in an intensively managed agricultural landscape Dr. Patrick Belmont Associate Professor in the Department of Watershed Sciences Utah State University
When: Thursday, 30 March 2017
The Materiality of Territory
Prof. Stuart Elden Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of Warwick, UK and Monash Warwick Professor, Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Australia
When: Thursday, 23 March 2017
'The Irish Housing Crisis: Neoliberalism redux and the right to the city in practice'
Recent developments in the Irish housing market (rise in homelessness, mortgage arrears, and government and local authority policy developments such as austerity, the privatisation of social housing provision through the private rental sector and new Public Private Partnerships on former social housing estates) are a useful case study to explore the actually existing forms of post-crisis neoliberalisation and financialisation.
When: Thursday, 09 March 2017
Postgraduate Open Evening
Get expert advice on postgraduate study options, talk to SUSI about student grants and apply for our Taught Masters Scholarships at the Postgraduate Open Evening
When: Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Geography: Departmental Postgrad Event 21st Feb
Meet our Masters and Postgrad Course Coordinators and current Resarch Postgrads to discuss options for the future!
When: Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Mapping Ice: Ontological Stability and Geophysical Dynamism in the Northern Nomosphere
The Department of Geography Seminar Series 2016-17 Mapping Ice: Ontological Stability and Geophysical Dynamism in the Northern Nomosphere Philip Steinberg Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University
When: Thursday, 16 February 2017