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Geography: Dr Helen Shaw Seminar
Geography Seminar : Pollen power: The investigation of past ecology and why the past matters.
When: Thursday, 30 November 2017
Geography: Dr Sinead Kelly Seminar
Dr Sinead Kelly presents as part of the Department of Geography Seminar Series : "Buy it, Fix it, Sell it": Impatient capital and the new logics of urban politics
When: Thursday, 16 November 2017
Tweeting the smart city: the affective enactments of the smart city on social media
Prof Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, will explore some of the implications of digital media on urban spaces.
When: Thursday, 26 October 2017
Geography: Dr Louise Slater Seminar
Dr Louise Slater presents as part of the Department of Geography Seminar Series: Disentangling streamflow drivers and forecasting water hazards using Earth Observation
When: Thursday, 12 October 2017
MarkFest: Congratulations to Mark Boyle
Prof. Audrey Kobayashi, QUB will join Prof. Mark Boyle and his University colleagues for a brief consideration of his contribution to scholarship with an afternoon of academic papers and panel discussion.
When: Monday, 09 October 2017
Department of Geography Seminar Series: Dr Brendan Murtagh
Dr Brendan Murtagh (Queens University Belfast) Social Economics and the Solidarity City
When: Thursday, 28 September 2017
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