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Anthropology Seminar Series, Dr Ela Drazkiewicz 24 November 2016
"Our Missionaries and the Moral Economy of Foreign Aid"
When: Thursday, 24 November 2016
The first Quaternary map of an Irish offshore region: the Porcupine Bank, West of Ireland
Dr Benjamin Thébaudeau, Postdoctoral Researcher, Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit (ICARUS) will give a talk titled "Mapping the Porcupine Bank and reconstructing its past".
When: Thursday, 17 November 2016
The Burns Sisters Public Lecture Series 2016
Prof Kevin B Anderson, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara will give a lecture titled 'Marx's Late Writings on Non-Western and Pre-capitalist Societies : New Pathways of Development and Revolution'.
When: Tuesday, 08 November 2016
Revealing experimental smart cities: The Frankenstein city and the sustainability challenges of De-composed Urbanism
Dr Federico Cugurullo, Assistant Professor in Smart and Sustainable Urbanism, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin will deliver the second Programmable City Seminar. The seminar will explore the Smart City through the example of Hong Kong.
When: Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Understanding Human Behavior, the Environment and Our Cities Through Measurement & Analysis
Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Harvard University, will talk about modeling and predicting interactions between human populations, urban systems, the natural environment and the built environment.
When: Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Variation in the issue of vacant houses within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Delivered by Prof Yoshiki Wakabayashi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, this seminar will focus on the Japenese challenge of a decreasing population with increasing vacant housing
When: Thursday, 15 September 2016
3-Day Intensive GREP on GIS and Spatial Data
This module is open to all PhD students from Maynooth University as well as from any partner institution across the Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP). Please direct inquiries about the module and expressions of interest to [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].
When: Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Spatial Analysis Cluster Workshop - AIRO 'Data for Decisions' Introduction to QGIS
This first workshop will be based on QGIS - an open source GIS platform and will include; Introductory lecture on the principles of GIS, overview of statistical datasets and sources in Ireland (both authoritative and open-source) and a series of practical sessions using QGIS.
When: Thursday, 14 January 2016
Privacy: gathering insights from lawyers and technologists
The roundtable event will bring technologists, legal practitioners, technology companies and academics together in order to address the common issues faced by the different parties.
When: Wednesday, 01 July 2015