Just a note to thank everyone for their participation in CIG 2013The keynote lectures will be available from the Geography website in the coming days:
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The Royal Irish Academy & the GSI held a one day conference following an Academy Discourse on Spatial Justice, Housing and Financial Crisis on Tuesday 23rd April. Professor Danny Dorling gave the Academy Discourse, which was followed by presentations from a host of leading Geographers: http://www.ria.ie/Events/Events-Listing/Spatial-Justice-and-the-Irish-Crisis.aspx The Conference of Irish Geographers is fast approaching (May 16th- May18th). To visit the web page, please see: http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=204 To see the Conference Programme please go to: http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/menu.asp?menu=1279&Conference=204
The Annual General Meeting of the Geographical Society of Ireland is scheduled to take place in NUI Galway after the conclusion of year’s Conference of Irish Geographers (16-18 May), with this meeting scheduled to take place between 12.30pm and 1.45pm on Saturday 18th May 2013.
The election of the new Geographical Society of Ireland committee for 2013/14 will take place during the Annual General Meeting. While most officers on the committee are elected for a two-year term (with the exception of the President/Vice President position) which can be renewed at an Annual General Meeting following the conclusion of this term, there seems to be quite a number of committee positions due for renewal/falling vacant this year which does offer a chance for people who would like to get more active within the Society to do so! The only positions that are not due for renewal/falling vacant at this year’s AGM are those of Fieldtrip Secretary and Graduate Liaison Officer/Postgraduate Representative.
One of the positions falling vacant this year is that of Vice President. The Society member who is elected as Vice President at the AGM will spend a one-year term as Vice President, before automatically taking up the position of Society President (replacing Frances Fahy, who will then become Vice-President) for a two-year terms at next year’s AGM. Once their term as Society President concludes at the 2016 AGM, they will take up the Vice President role for one further year (2016-17).
Another position falling vacant this year is that of Secretary. This is an important role within the Society as the Secretary should be the chief organiser of GSI committee business and GSI activities throughout the year, while also keeping in regular contact with the members of the Society and it is a role that someone with enthusiasm and good organisational abilities could do very well in (might make a change from the last two years…
 ). For the past two years this role has been carried out in conjunction with that of Membership Secretary (a committee role which also falls vacant at this AGM). For the nomination process, I have detached the positions of Secretary and Membership Secretary here as the incoming Secretary may not want to take on this extra position/role.The other committee roles that are due for renewal at the upcoming AGM are: Treasurer, Societies Liaison Officer, PRO (Communications and Information Officer), Editor of GeoNews and Committee Member without Portfolio. In some/most of these cases, the current incumbent may well put themselves forward for another two-year term in their post.
If you wish to put yourself forward for a role on the committee or to nominate another Society member, please note that:
* The outgoing Secretary (nominations phase) and Society President (election of officers at the AGM) will act as “returning officers” for the process.
* To nominate someone/be nominated, all relevant details (position(s) sought, name of nominee, name of proposer and seconder) must be filled in on the form attached with the email sent out about the AGM to the members; this filled-in form must then be returned to the outgoing Secretary.
* All nominations must be with the outgoing Secretary, Adrian Kavanagh (adrian.p.kavanagh@nuim.ie), either by email or post, by 12.00pm on Tuesday 7th May at the very latest.
* All nominees MUST be fully paid up members of the Geographical Society of Ireland (for the 2013 calendar year) before their nominations can be accepted.
* All nominees must be proposed and seconded by other current Society members (i.e. both MUST be fully paid up members for the 2013 calendar year before the nomination can be accepted) – you cannot self-nominate!
(If you are unclear as to whether you are a fully paid up member of the Society for 2013, please check the bottom of this email or else look back over previous emails from adrian.p.kavanagh@nuim.ie !!!)
* Once a nomination has been accepted (i.e. deemed valid), the nomination details will be posted below by the outgoing Secretary.
If you have any further queries on this or on what the different committee roles might entail, please feel free to contact me, Frances Fahy (the Society President) or any of the other current committee members
Nominations accepted:
Secretary: Joanne Rourke - Nominated: Anna Davies, Seconded: Padraig Carmody
Treasurer: Niamh Moore-Cherry - Nominated: Adrian Kavanagh, Seconded: Susan Hegarty
Societies Liaison Officer: Susan Hegarty - Nominated: Niamh Moore-Cherry, Seconded: Frances Fahy
PRO (Communications and Information Officer): Irene Morris - Nominated: John Sweeney, Seconded: Shaun Harrigan; Karen Till - Nominated: Gerry Kearns, Seconded: Adrian Kavanagh.
Committee member without portfolio: Anna Davies - Nominated: Mary-Jo Lavelle, Seconded: Frances Fahy; Shane O’Sullivan - Nominated: Margaret Browne, Seconded: Joyce Novak.
Conference of Irish Geographers Transformative Geographies: Critical Reflections on Environment, Sustainability and Governmentality 16th-18th May 2013, National University of Ireland, Galway http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=204 Conference programme coming shortly
The conference will start with a Media Skills Traing & Sharing Day on Thursday 16th May
Becoming & Belonging In Ireland c.1200-1600 A trans-disciplinary conference about identity & cultural practice The Clinton Centre, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh Becoming and Belonging in Ireland October 11-13, 2013
Many of you will know the work of Arnold Horner for Geography in Ireland. An event in his honour has been arranged in the RIA on Tuesday 12th February starting at 6.30pm. Please see the attached poster AAH A bibliography of Irish geography has been produced for each Congress of the International Geographical Union. Please see attached for details of the 2013 CIG The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, Mike Murphy and published by Cork University Press has won the International Education Services Best Irish-published Book of the Year. The award was announced at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards on November 22nd. The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine was published in September 2012 and has already been reprinted three times. It has been launched in Dublin, Cork, New York, Chicago and Boston. The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine seeks to achieve a greater understanding of the Famine, through its 50 chapters and includes contributions from over 60 scholars from the arts, folklore, geography, history, archaeology, Irish and English languages and literatures. Included, are case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as Liverpool, Glasgow, New York and Toronto. The Atlas features 400 images and 200 maps that have been digitized in an ambitious project by collating maps of individual parishes and townlands that are based on census records. ISBN 978-185918-479-0, €59, £55, Hardback, 299 x 237mm, 728pp, 200 maps and 400 illustrations, 60 contributors, September 2012 Further information: http://greatirishfamine.ie/
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